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Little Feat

Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 6 December 1975

ONCE UPON a time in the early '60s when everybody suddenly started getting paranoid about advertising men, and half the people you met were convinced that the "Hidden Persuaders" were secretly ruling the world from Madison Avenue, you used to hear this cute slogan attributed to some grey-flannel-suited wolverine Macchiavelli from one of the big ad agencies.

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