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There’s no story anywhere in music like Steely Dan. The Seventies jazz-rock masterminds have gone in and out of style over the years, but they’ve never been more popular, more influential ...
The pair had formed the group to produce the songs too complex for the ABC artists they wrote for and turned to session ...
The late singer and guitarist's caretaker and friend Tony Wilson confirmed he died on Monday, May 26 Singer and guitarist ...
For me, music is a mood-altering gift. We all have music that brings us up when we hear it. Steely Dan brings me up every time because it is so musically delicious and lyrically spot-on.
His connection with Donald Fagen eventually opened the door to an incredible opportunity-joining Steely Dan as lead guitarist and music director. Zingg toured with the iconic band for ...
Ask any two music fans what qualifies as yacht rock, and an argument is sure to ensue. Does Steely Dan count? (Absolutely.) What about Hall & Oates? (No, too East Coast.) In the late 1970s and ...
And really no musical entity was stripping away the glossy veneer of that music and those lyrics to expose the human condition at its ironic worst—no one with the exception of Steely Dan. Stephen ...
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KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Coolly detached, ironic and arch, Steely Dan has always stood apart from their contemporaries. The songs written by singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen and guitarist-bassist Walter ...
Libby Titus, the singer-songwriter best known for her song “Love Has No Pride” and later became the wife of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at the age of 77. No cause of death was given.