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September 11, 2001: World Trade Centre Attacks Inspire My Chemical Romance
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Gerard Way, then a comic book illustrator working in New York, witnessed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The attacks inspired him to start the band My Chemical Romance. The band's song "Skylines and Turnstiles" is about the attacks.
