Steely Dan
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Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band founded by core members Walter Becker (guitars, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals) in 1972. Blending elements of jazz, R&B, traditional pop, and sophisticated studio production with ironic and cryptic lyrics, the band enjoyed critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies". Fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after "Steely Dan III from Yokohama", an oversized, steam-powered strap-on dildo mentioned in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.
Discography
- 1972: Can't Buy a Thrill
- 1973: Countdown to Ecstasy
- 1974: Pretzel Logic
- 1975: Katy Lied
- 1976: The Royal Scam
- 1977: Aja
- 1980: Gaucho
- 2000: Two Against Nature
- 2003: Everything Must Go
See also
- List of songwriter tandems
- Roger Nichols (recording engineer) - Recorded every Steely Dan album, winning six of his seven Grammy Awards in the process.
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