In many ways, he says, the album marks a tonal shift away from the intimate songs of 2004's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, and instead reflects the mood of the song "Dog Faced Boy, " from Eels' 2001 album Souljacker.

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The great wonder, it's true, was surrounded by Chinese pagodas, dancing pavilions, camera obscuras, Indian bazaars, and sideshows featuring counting pigs and a man named Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy.

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Unlike The Doors and the Rolling Stones, who had bad-boy images, Three Dog Night was perceived as All-American boys.

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As the boy detective and his dog careen from Belgium to the Middle East, the music takes on an international flair.

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The film is said to involve a new boy, a "snow dog" and such modern landmarks as the London Eye.

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The stories will follow the adventures of a school boy, Frankie, his football-loving friends, and pet dog Max.

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The boy had skinned and dumped a buffalo carcass, from which a dog took a meaty bone into their field.

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One morning in September 1940, a boy called Marcel Ravidat was exploring the hills above Montignac when his dog, Robot, uncovered a hole beneath a tree root leading to a cave.

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