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

And, most delightful of all, a Japanese dildo invented by William Burroughs – the “Steely Dan III from Yokohama ... “You say it’s a crazy scheme,” to pluck a little wisdom from Deacon Blues. “This one ...

There are no songs from Aja on the following list. Nor are there any from its follow-up Gaucho. I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album – is beloved by ...

The band formed in the summer of 1985 - when Ross moved from Dundee to Glasgow - taking their name from the 1977 Steely Dan song Deacon Blues. Original members included Ross, singer Lorraine ...

There’s no story anywhere in music like Steely Dan. The Seventies jazz-rock masterminds have gone in and out of style over the years, but they’ve never been more popular, more influential ...

The year I was a senior in college, the band Steely Dan released its song “Deacon Blues.” A lyric from it has always stuck with me: “They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a ...