Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 1980, after nearly two years in the studio, Steely Dan emerged triumphant with ...

Last night Donald Fagan and Walter Becker got dressed, walked down the street and made a little lucre playing the most cynical music ever. The event was the final night of Steely Dans long stand at ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. “Third World Man,” the last song on Steely Dan’s 1980 ...

You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs. Quantum Criminals is that book. Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay take a deep dive into the genius of ...

It takes a spy to hunt a spy.

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The Steely Dan archives are proving to be very fruitful. Lost Gaucho sessions song “The Second Arrangement” was recently given a formal release, and here’s another, albeit very different, track. This ...

Let’s cut right to the chase, OK? This is a column about Steely Dan. There, with just that sentence, I’ve already separated the wheat from the chaff. If you’re still reading this, it means that you’re ...

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, ...

In addition to a lengthy discography with his own bands, guitar hero and rock legend Rick Derringer also contributed to an astonishing array of music by a wide range of stars, starting in the 1970s.