Dean Friedman has been played on NTS in shows including Confusing Mix w/ Josh Da Costa, featured first on 7 January 2022. Songs played include McDonald's Girl.

In the summer of 1977, Dean Friedman marked his entry into US pop consciousness with the enormous success (his only American hit, it peaked at #26) of his infectious hit single Ariel, a quirkily irresistible and uncategorizable pop song about a free spirited, music loving, vegetarian Jewish girl in a peasant blouse who lived, as the lyric goes, "…way on the other side of the Hudson."

A year later, Friedman struck a chord in the UK, this…