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It is both a blessing and a curse that English rock band the Psychedelic Furs are tethered to the 1986 Molly Ringwald film Pretty in Pink. On one hand, the enduring teenage classic bears the name of a song the band wrote and birthed an equally classic soundtrack, one of Rolling Stone’s greatest of all time.On the other, the association obscures the fact that the Furs might have been the ultimate new wave band. The group, which brothers Richard and Tim Butler formed in the late ’70s, had punk roots but also a solid mastery of the pop hook; for a time it seemed it’d be the band from across the pond to become stateside superstars. That’s not exactly how things worked out. U2 went on the become the biggest band in the world, while the Furs became, well, that band with a song in Pretty in Pink. The story goes that Ringwald brought the song to writer John Hughes, who became so enamored of it that he wrote the film around it. Turns out he didn’t exactly understand the concept. Wednesday, October 22