Needing the name of a prototypical winner, Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker went to the world of college football. When they needed to contrast that, they borrowed the name of a famous pro ...

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has always had his finger on the pulse, and once rated a Steely Dan song, better than ...

David Crosby was a lifelong fan of Steely Dan, so for his last album, 'For Free', he collaborated with his musical hero, ...

NEW YORK - Somehow the idea of rock musician Donald Fagen working in a Borders book store or teaching high-school literature is about as likely as an unambiguous Steely Dan song lyric. He is, after ...

Steely Dan are one of those bands you either love or hate. To some, they represent the highest peaks of songwriting and studio craft, with lyrical vignettes about lost souls and strange characters ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The good news is that Steely Dan is coming to Blossom Music Center on June 23. The sad news is that it will be Donald Fagen's first time touring without his late musical partner, ...

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This essay originally appeared in Issue #4 of Paste Magazine in the fall of 2003, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. I must have been the summer of 1989 when my uncle foisted a ...

Take the body of work of any Classic Rock band—or that of any other genre—and you’d be hard pressed to name a group with more characters of note than in the lyrics of Steely Dan. Dr. Wu. Mr. La Page, ...

With apologies to The Big Lebowski and the Dude’s disdain for the Eagles, no 1970s American rock band is as polarizing as Steely Dan. Movie dialogue and sitcom quips have expressed the competing ...