CLEVELAND, Ohio – The first time the band James played Cleveland, it wasn’t in a stadium, arena or even a theater. It was at the now-defunct Peabody’s DownUnder, a low-ceilinged club tucked into the East Bank of The Flats.

That setting couldn’t have been further removed from the football stadiums that the Manchester band was filling in the UK and Europe at the time.

Yet more than 40 years after forming, James still plays smaller halls in the U.S. It’s a peculiar fate for a band that, everywhere else in the world, is a household name.

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