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Eagles: Long Road Out Of Eden (Universal)

Max Bell, Classic Rock, December 2007

WHEN STEELY DAN sang the immortal line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbours are listening" on their mid-'70s sex-swinging party anthem 'Everything You Did', the lyric was generally considered to be a side-swipe at their management stable cohorts. In fact, it was a tongue-in-cheek compliment, as well as a command to cover up a nasty domestic argument.

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