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Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974

STEELY DAN is the most improbable hit-singles band to emerge in ages. On its three albums, the group has developed an impressionistic approach to rock ...

Steely Dan: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, November 1996

THEY QUIT TOURING IN '74; broke up in '80. Now the arch hipster auteurs of literate, cynical, smart-ass rock jazz – the creators of some ...

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Donald Fagen (1991)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 November 1991

The former Dan man talks about the New York Rock & Soul Revue; Steely Dan's influence on UK groups; the serious process of recording Dan albums; his forthcoming album Kamakiriad; The Nightfly, 'IGY' and "mock sentimentality"; writer's block and psychotherapy; Walter Becker's drug problem, and being reunited with him; his childhood, his parents and Jewishness; meeting Walter at Bard College; on '60s soul; on Prince, hip hop, and De La Soul sampling 'Peg', and on the Dan members, and catalogue reissues.

File format: mp3; total file size: 51.6mb, interview length: 53' 43" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Steely Dan's Denny Dias (1995)

Interview by Andy Gill, Rock's Backpages audio, Fall 1995

The former Steely Dan guitarist recalls first meeting Becker and Fagen in New York, and starting playing music with them; enjoying the sophistication of their songwriting; joining them in Los Angeles; their exacting demands in the studio; touring with the band; going off the road, and the break up of the original band; leaving music and becoming a computer programmer; returning to music, and hard disk recording; the legacy of Steely Dan, and the record company's dislike of Countdown to Ecstasy.

File format: mp3; file size: 16.1mb, interview length: 16' 49" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Steely Dan (1999)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 9 December 1999

The dynamic duo on their comeback album, Two Against Nature; their isolation from the rock mainstream in the '70s; being a "band" in the early years; their audience, and those who don't "get" them; William Burroughs; the Katy Lied technical disaster; their collective identity and collaboration; how they view their early records, and Steely Dan's place in the modern pop world.

File format: mp3; file size: 53.7mb, interview length: 58' 40" sound quality: ***

Steely Dan (2003)

Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, June 2003

Messrs. Fagen and Becker talk about their Everything Must Go album, William Burroughs, their time away from each other, songwriting, and a whole lot more.

File format: mp3; file size: 41mb; Interview length: 44 52"; sound quality: ****

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Walter Becker: Steely Dan man sees the light

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Daily Telegraph, 17 July 2008

WALTER BECKER talks to Adam Sweeting about his adventurous new solo album and the rollicking return of the band that made him. ...

Steely Dan

Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, May 2008

THE WORSE THINGS get, the better Steely Dan sounds. The songs of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen stand as the definitive account of urban decadence ...

Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill (Probe SPB 1062, £2.25)

Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 20 January 1973

THIS ONE'S already speeding up the Billboard and Cashbox charts – currently around the 30 mark and likely to jump about 20 places by next ...

Walter Becker: Hasn't He Grown

Interview by Andy Gill, Q, April 1995

WHAT'S WRONG with this picture? Halfway up a volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Walter Becker, one-half of Steely Dan, the most cynical rock'n'roll ...

Donald Fagen: Back To Bed For Another 11 Years Then

Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1993

VARIOUSLY JET-LAGGED and eyeing each other guardedly from behind their paper plates and coffee cups, half a dozen representatives of the world's rock press settle ...

Steely Dan: The Return Of Steely Dan

Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1995

ONCE UPON A TIME, they were the odd couple in rock. They wrote songs that featured knuckle-knotting chords and brain-twisting lyrics. They welded jazz and ...

Steely Dan: Gaucho

Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 22 November 1980

THE COVER to this, the seventh Steely Dan album (discounting the Greatest Hits compilation), features a painting or anaglyph of a dancing couple of presumably ...

Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy

Review and Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 February 2000

When Steely Dan vocalist Donald Fagen released his second solo album, Kamakiriad, in 1993, fans marvelled at the inordinate length of time it had taken ...

Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA) ****½

Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 5 February 1981

Gaucho: the art of aesthetic tease ...

Curbing Their Enthusiasm: Steely Dan

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2003

THIS IS TOO, TOO PERFECT: Steely Dan strolling into a sleek hotel suite in Santa Monica, the Pacific Ocean sparkling through the window behind them. ...

Steely Dan: Librarians on Acid

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, January 2000

STEELY DAN have always split people down the middle. On one side sit major dudes like William Gibson, who delight in the apparent disjunction between ...

Donald Fagen: The Man Who Came In From The Cool

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Arena, Spring 1993

Steely Dan were the muso's band. As icily astute chroniclers of the Seventies, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker recorded a series of virtuoso albums of ...

Any Major Dude Will Tell You: The Funked-Up Muzak and Cerebral Genius of Steely Dan

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2012

NOTE: This is an updated version of a piece written for the short-lived biannual Faber/Domino publication Loops. I've revived it to commemorate the 40th anniversary ...

The Backpages Interview: Steely Dan

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2003

This week sees the release of Everything Must Go, the follow-up to Steely Dan's Grammy-grabbing Two Against Nature. BARNEY HOSKYNS discusses war, economics and online ...

Steely Dan: The Royal Scam

Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus, 24 August 1976

DONALD FAGEN AND Walter Becker don't play by the rules. They won't tour, they won't talk to interviewers, they won't keep a band together — ...

Showbiz Kids: Talking with Jeff Baxter, and a Critical View of Steely Dan

Interview by Chris Briggs, ZigZag, July 1974

INTERVIEWING AN American musician is a unique experience. The inevitable myth preceeds actuality. Three Steely Dan albums and eighteen months of impressions formed within the ...

Steely Dan: Steely Logic

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 13 April 1974

ALTHOUGH IT'S quite incidental to the story that follows, let's begin by explaining the meaning of the term Steely Dan. It has nothing to do ...

Steely Dan and Jazz

Interview by Chris Ingham, Jazzwise, December 2000

WAITING FOR Walter Becker and Donald Fagen AKA Steely Dan in their publicist’s New York office, I spot two mouth-wateringly opulent 24 CD sets of ...

Steely Dan: Everything Must Go

Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, June 2003

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, maestros of pristine '70s jazz-rock, follow-up 2000's multi-Grammy-winning comeback Two Against Nature. ...

Steely Dan: Joined At The Hip

Review and Interview by Chris Ingham, MOJO, January 2000

IT'S BEEN 20 YEARS, A HIATUS ALMOST unheard of in rock. In the 1970s. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen – studio auteurs infused with the ...

Skunk Hunting In W1

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975

THERE'S A delicately detailed brass rubbing of Burlington House above the bed-head in room 420 at the Inn On The Park. Some rock musicians would've ...

Steely Dan: Get Dan And Get With It!

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 May 1974

Steely Dan: Palace Theatre, Manchester ...

Band Breakdown: Steely Dan

Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 June 1974

STEELY DAN, in their short time together, have been hailed as one of the best bands to emerge from America in a long time. They ...

Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (Probe)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 March 1974

Steely Dan do it again ...

Steely Dan: Aja

Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2011

IF EVER A record knew its worth, it was Aja, the sixth album by Steely Dan. Released in late 1977 when half the world seemed ...

10 Questions for Steely Dan

Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 2003

Dave Di Martino talks to the venerable jazz-pop double act about sexual aids, Charlotte Rampling and perfectionism. Well, why not? ...

Steely Dan: BluesFest at the O2, London

Live Review by David Bennun, The Guardian, 30 October 2017

Donald Fagen, now sole founding member after the death of Walter Becker, is the vocal grit in the oyster of Steely Dan's sophisticated, frictionless grooves. ...

Steely Dan: Everything Must Go

Review by David Hepworth, The Word, July 2003

They used to be great... they still are ...

The Hit Factory: New York's Brill Building

Retrospective and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, November 2001

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I spent much of 2001 interviewing the songwriters, machers, and artists of the Brill Building era for this oral history. It was the ...

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature

Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

TWO AGAINST NATURE could have been horrible, as so many of these returns by grizzled ’70s vets are; as it was, the album was merely ...

Steely Dan: A Dan for all Seasons

Discography by Fred Dellar, Record Hunter, December 1990

One more glance through the rock files to evaluate the deeds and doings of Steely Dan. Flicking the pages – Fred Dellar ...

Steely Dan: A Droll Double Act

Interview by Gavin Martin, The Independent, 6 June 2003

IT IS LATE AFTERNOON before Walter Becker and Don Fagen greet their first interviewer of the day. The two men, who first fronted a band ...

Wide Open: An Interview with Michael McDonald

Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages, November 2017

GM: I attended three Dylan shows in your hometown St. Louis in the noughties. Visiting the arch sculpture one day felt weirdly sad, a hopeful ...

Dawn of the Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill Turns 40

Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, 20 September 2012

AT THE TIME, Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill hardly appeared as a serious contender for the most-likely-to-succeed debut of the Class of '72. The ...

Steely Dan Movie

Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 5 January 1978

STEELY DAN WILL compose and perform the title track for FM, which is scheduled to begin filming this week at Universal Studios. Denny Rosencrantz, vice-president ...

Steely Dan, Kiki Dee: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 1 June 1974

Thumbs down for the Dan ...

Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic

Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 9 March 1974

A FINE RECORD. And that sentence goes first because the fact that a band as perfectly poised as Steely Dan can reach their third album ...

Steely Dan: Decadent Diversions

Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2002

IAN MacDONALD ON STEELY DAN'S DARK HORSE, GAUCHO ...

Steely Dan: Everything Must Go

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, July 2003

Not-quite-brilliant follow-up to Two Against Nature from US collegiate pop's Lennon & McCartney. ...

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2000

First album in two decades from America's premier cerebral jazz-pop twosome ...

Donald Fagen: Eminent Hipsters (Viking)

Book Review by Ian Penman, City Journal, 16 January 2014

IN JANUARY 1974, Joni Mitchell released the exquisite, deceptively sunny Court and Spark; two months later, on the penultimate day of March, the Ramones played their ...

Steely Dan: Wembley Arena

Live Review by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 11 September 2000

GREAT GIG, but what a shame not to hear 'What A Shame About Me'. It's the perfect singalong anthem for fans of Steely Dan, since ...

Steely Dan: Hammersmith Apollo, London

Live Review by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 10 July 2007

"HI YA KIDS," says Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, "we're going to play songs from the recent past, and going back to the deep 70s...if you ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 8 May 1975

STEELY DAN sound like a million dollars not only next to at least 26 of their coresidents of the Boss 30 when they're in it, ...

Vinyl Icon: Gaucho

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, July 2010

GAUCHO, THE FINAL ALBUM Steely Dan recorded before they broke up in 1981, is still regarded as a masterpiece by aficionados, but making it put ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied

Review by Jonh Ingham, Let It Rock, June 1975

WHEN I FIRST RECEIVED this album it engendered dispassionate dislike, but the more I play it the more I become merely ambivalent. Certainly there are ...

Steely Dan: Ultimate Spinach Meets Naked Lunch's Dildo

Profile and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1973

LOS ANGELES — Steely Dan named itself after William Burroughs' mighty dildo in Naked Lunch. "We just wanted to give the band a little more ...

Walter Becker: Breaking the Silence

Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, December 1985

Steely Dan's Walter Becker Ends His Five Year Absence From The Music Industry ...

Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy (Probe)

Review by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 18 August 1973

STEELY DAN'S first album was completely ignored in Britain. Yet it was a masterpiece. Can't Buy A Thrill contained conceptual songs that told stories with ...

Steely Dan's Smart Rock

Profile and Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973

"WE LIKE TO think of every song as a composition in itself, a composition in the more orthodox meaning. ...

Walter Becker: Dr. Wu Goes Hawaiian

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, September 1985

STEELY DAN'S MYSTERY MAN REAPPEARS ...

Pipeline

Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, September 1973

"GREAT ALBUMS are hard to find these days," I once wrote in my definitive book on the subject, Great Albums Are Hard To Find These ...

Steely Dan

Retrospective by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 13 August 1977

While the poor people sleep-in with the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' all the stars come out at night – 'Show ...

Steely Dan: The Royal Scam

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 8 May 1976

DEFINITION: SCAM – THE scenario for a confidence trick. The lowdown on same. The stage preparatory to the heist or sting. ...

Steely Dan: Desperate For Dan

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, January 1991

No, there won't be a Steely Dan reunion. But the good news for those still checked in at the Hotel California is that songwriting partners ...

Steely Dan: Art For Art's Sake…

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 19 June 1976

In the space of five albums in four years, Steely Dan have created arguably the best rock music, and certainly the most erudite, of the ...

Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy (MCA)

Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, December 1973

STEELY DAN IS a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who entered the music world via a two-year gig with ...

Steely Dan: Gaucho

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, March 1981

SHE STOMPED into the living room, as much as one can stomp in pink slippers and an extra-large Close Encounters t-shirt, and conspicuously clicked the ...

Steely Dan: Dream Ticket

Report and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, September 1993

Twenty years ago Steely Dan hooked white suburban America with their deceptively comfy rock classics. And even today they can shift 15,000 Madison Square Garden ...

Donald Fagen: Dan Dare

Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 12 May 1993

Back in the '70s, Steely Dan grabbed the American Dream by the throat with their deceptively soft rock. Now singer Donald Fagen is back, giving ...

Steely Dan: Remastered - The Best Of Steely Dan (MCA)

Review by Nick Hornby, MOJO, January 1994

"Who was The Razor Boy? What is The Boston Rag? Where is Mizar-5?" ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 5 April 1975

THIS ALBUM worries me. It worries me because so much of the music here is so blatantly lacklustre compared with the exhilaratingly high standards already ...

The Greatest Albums Ever Made: Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstasy

Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 30 October 2003

WALTER BECKER and Donald Fagen were wiseass New York musician nerds stranded in L.A. in the early '70s, and they poured all the cynicism and ...

Donald Fagen

Interview by Paul Zollo, American Songwriter, January 2013

On the occasion of Donald Fagen's latest non-Steely Dan effort, Sunken Condos, we sat down to talk about this new classic, and the previous ones. ...

Steely Dan: The Second Coming

Retrospective and Interview by Paul Zollo, Performing Songwriter, January 2000

IN MANHATTAN, a couple weeks before the final Christmas of the 20th Century. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have arrived together at the 12th floor, ...

Steely Dan Continues the Battle

Interview by Paul Zollo, CDNOW.com, January 2000

THEY ARE THE core of Steely Dan – Walter Becker and Donald Fagen – the two friends who long ago disbanded the original lineup of ...

Steely Dan: Get Your Thrills Here

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 March 1973

THE MOST exciting new band to break from the States this year is Steely Dan. ...

Steely Dan: Aja (ABC)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, January 1978

STEELY DAN, in case you don't already know, isn't a group in the conventional sense (tho' it began that way) but rather the umbrella name ...

Steely Dan Ready to Hit the Road Again

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1976

MORE OFTEN than not, the news on Steely Dan is no news. Compulsive recordmakers Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the group's creative core, are usually ...

Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA MCA-6102)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 November 1980

AN LP WITH IRONIES IN THE FIRE ...

Steely Dan, Kiki Dee: Civic Audiorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1974

Steely Dan Shows Its Mettle ...

Donald Fagen: Return of the Nightfly

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1991

Steely Dan co-creator Donald Fagen resurfaces after nearly a decade of silence, with new works and a new outlook on life. ...

Steely Dan: Aja (ABC Records AB 1006)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1977

Welcome to Steely Dan's World ...

Steely Dan: Whole Is Greater Than Parts

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1975

"It has been said many times and in many ways that what the world needs now is another rock 'n roll band. This could very ...

Steely Dan: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1972

Steely Dan and the Visual Side of Rock ...

Steely Dan: Excerpts from a Teenage Opera

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, June 1977

EVEN IN THE DAYS when Steely Dan was a finite rock band of relatively normal constitution, leaders Walter Becker and Donald Fagen insisted that it ...

Yes, it's Steely Dan Versus the Fifth Ice Age

Interview by Richard Cromelin, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975

A meteorological report from stalagmite-encrusted California, U.S.A. ...

Steely Dan: Don and Walt

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Sounds, 5 June 1976

  I have never met NapoleonBut I plan to find the time...Cause he looks so fine upon that hillThey tell me he was lonely, he's lonely ...

Steely Dan: No Silly Love Songs Here

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 17 June 1976

LOS ANGELES — Steely Dan has drifted in and out of public view since the group's songwriting team — guitarist Walter Becker and pianist Donald ...

Steely Dan: Everything Must Go

Review by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 13 June 2003

UNIQUE AMONG contemporary musicians, the post-comeback Steely Dan make records that are more fun to read than to listen to. ...

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature

Review by Rick McGrath, Culture Court, August 2000

ALTHO' I'M A long-time Dan Man, Steely Bopper and convicted Fagenite, it was with a mixture of lip-licking anticipation and eye-narrowing dread that I crept ...

Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic Revisited

Retrospective by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 27 March 2009

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago this month, Pretzel Logic, the album that alerted the world beyond L.A. and NYC to the thrillingly unpigeonholeable sound of Steely Dan, ...

Steely Dan: The Royal Scam (Anchor ABCL5161)

Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 29 May 1976

STEELY DAN have made it in the way Poco should have done. After all, their music is similar. 'Don't Take Me Alive' is one of ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied (ABC ABCD-846)

Review by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, April 1975

STEELY DAN is a feisty little outfit. Their songs insinuate themselves onto Top 40 playlists, to blare from car radios and transmute vinylite into gold, ...

Steely Dan: Royal Scam (ABC ABCD-931)

Review by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, May 1976

SO YOU wanna dance? Steely Dan will oblige you, punching up their fast songs with hot guitars and bubbling rhythms. You say you like spectacle, ...

Michael McDonald

Interview by Sam Sutherland, Musician, January 1981

Songwriter, keyboardist, arranger, member of the Doobies and owner of The Voice reveals himself as a somewhat reluctant superstar. Thrust into pop music's center stage ...

Steely Dan Sans Sarcasm

Profile and Interview by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, November 1977

STEELY DAN has been insinuating their mordant, pop-noir sensibility into the American musical mainstream for over five years now, and from the outset they've smartly ...

Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA 6102)

Review by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, February 1981

Gaucho: Listen Again ...

Steely Dan: Aja (ABC AB 1006)

Review by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, December 1977

AJA IS easily the best album released thus far this year. I hesitate to qualify that statement with words like "pop" or "rock," because these ...

Recording Gaucho: Doctors, Lawyers, and Gremlins

Report and Interview by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, February 1981

BEFORE THE multiple-platinum sales of Aja carried their music to a broad pop constituency, Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen had earned enviable, even ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied

Review and Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, May 1975

EIGHT-THIRTY PM. On the sixteenth story of a monster New York skyscraper a lonely light shone at the end of a cavernous floor. The deserted ...

Counting Down to Headline Status: Steely Dan

Interview by Steven Rosen, Los Angeles Free Press, August 1973

ON SEPT. 2, Steely Dan perform their first concert as headliners, that status which lifts the working-class band from the ranks of the bourgeois and ...

Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy

Review by Steven X Rea, Music World, November 1973

THIS IS BASICALLY just a review of one song on Countdown To Ecstasy. I mean, the rest of the record is fine, the lyrics are ...

Steely Dan: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 1996

Steely Dan: a mixture of pathos, elegance and brisk timekeeping. ...

Steely Dan Dare to give Sylvie Simmons a more-open-than-usual interview

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 22 October 1977

IT'S NOT every day that Steely Dan bare their souls to the public. But amid the palm trees and coke bottles at the Bel Air ...

The Strange World of Steely Dan

Interview by Tim Lott, Sounds, 25 December 1976

A lyrical exposée by TIM LOTT ...

Steely Dan: Walking Slow, Drinking Alone, And Moving Swiftly Through The Night…

Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, New Musical Express, 23 February 1974

WERE SITTING drinking Campari in the Angry Squire in Seventh Avenue on a dull sweltry Sunday night, watching the sippers and swallowers drift through a ...

Steely Dan: Say it with words

Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 20 June 1976

SOME BANDS get you with their charismatic stagecraft. Others, with musicianship that drives and dazzles. But it is the songs that make Steely Dan the ...

Steely Dan: Hey 19: It's About Time

Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2000

"WHAT RECORD COMPANY are we on, by the way?" Donald Fagen wants to know. "I'm not kidding." ...

Steely Dan's Greatest-Hits & Quips

Interview by Wayne Robins, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1978

NEW YORK — Maybe it's the air quality. Or fear of earthquakes. Or brushfires. Or terminal boredom. Whatever the reasons, a number of musicians long ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1975

Slouching Toward Number One ...

see also Walter Becker

see also Larry Carlton

see also Donald Fagen

see also Jay & The Americans

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