And there is not one – but two outstanding, atmospheric guitar solos from Larry Carlton, among the best in any Steely Dan song. Chuck Rainey, who provided an excellent bass groove on “Black ...

Steely Dan fans love to debate every last detail in the band’s music, every song, every drum break or sax solo, from the caves of Altamira to the oleanders of Annandale. So let’s bring on the ...

I personally love melody above all else in music, and this song features one of the band’s best. A true classic. Steely Dan’s highest-charting hit (number 4, Billboard US Hot 100) also manages ...

And, most delightful of all, a Japanese dildo invented by William Burroughs – the “Steely Dan III from Yokohama ... the wisdom of ranking their songs seems a little gauche: one can imagine the late ...

Steely Dan co-leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker cultivate the most sympathetic characters of their career on the ten ...

Their full story is in to be found in the following pages. We have selected the best Steely Dan interviews from the archives of NME, Melody Maker and Uncut. Alongside them, we present the kind of ...

Fifty years ago, Can’t Buy A Thrill introduced STEELY DAN’s impeccable brand of hipster ... but there’s also solos on every song. There’s such intense, ear-opening harmony.

Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone/AP Steely Dan co-founders Fagen, 76, and Becker (who died in 2017) have earned several platinum-certified albums as well as three top-10 hits on Billboard Hot 100 ...