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Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic Revisited

Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 27 March 2009

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago this month, Pretzel Logic, the album that alerted the world beyond L.A. and NYC to the thrillingly unpigeonholeable sound of Steely Dan, the hepcat bepop double-act Ian Dury would later thank for creating "the most upful music I know", was released.

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