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Simon Webbe: 'The X Factor is great'

Published Thursday, Oct 29 2009, 12:06 GMT | By Mayer Nissim
Simon Webbe: 'The X Factor is great'

Rex Features

Simon Webbe has said that an all-black boyband would not have been signed before The X Factor showed that the public would support them.

The Blue singer told The Guardian that there was a division between the industry heads and the people who buy music.

Webbe said: "I don't think an all-black boyband like JLS would have been signed in the days when we were starting out. The X Factor's great in that way.

"It shows the record companies what people really want - especially as most labels are run by old guys who have no idea what's going on in clubs or on the streets."

Of his time in his own recently-reformed boyband, he admitted: "I'm in the band because my face fitted. I know that. At first, I was like a rabbit in the headlights."

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