Show Notes
Yes, we're gonna have a wingding! The Turntable ventures across the Atlantic for the first time as Tone offers up Donald Fagen's debut solo album post-Steely Dan. Sub-oceanic tunnels, hopeless romance, well-stocked nuclear bunkers and, of course, Spandex jackets. They're all there. What will Paul make of Fagen's paean to his childhood? Ooooooh, Miami!
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