If there's one thing Steely Dan fans love, it's trying to figure out the meaning behind Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's lyrics, which aren't always particularly...straightforward. Take, for example, ...

During Steely Dan‘s 1979 sessions for Gaucho, what would be the final album of their original run, a song titled “The Second Arrangement” was accidentally erased from the master tapes. These were the ...

Not many bands are as reluctant to talk about their work as Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, but when they do talk it's often brutal.

Steely Dan produced seven albums during their classic run in the 1970s, but critics disagree about the goodness of 1976's 'The Royal Scam.' ...

While recording 'Peg', Steely Dan went through six guitarists and scrapped them all before landing on Jay Graydon and using ...

There’s no band out there quite like Steely Dan. This jazz rock fusion outfit was called “musical antiheroes of the seventies” for good reason. That being said, choosing their very best songs is no ...

Like many artists in the 1970s, Steely Dan rose to prominence while following in the footsteps of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles were a source of ...

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 ...

Steely Dan's "FM (No Static at All)" was created for a comedy-drama of the same name, released in 1978, that became a hit ...

Pretzel Logic is also the album that established Steely Dan as serial hitmakers in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Can’t Buy a Thrill produced two popular singles in “Do It Again” (No. 6 on the Billboard Hot ...