“It wasn’t fun at all”: Steely Dan’s most tragic album
Perfection sometimes emerges from chaos.
Donald Fagen
‘Deacon Blues’: Steely Dan’s most autobiographical song
“Learn to work the saxophone, I play just what I feel…”
‘Gaucho’: The Steely Dan album that went overboard
“We were trying to realise a technical perfection that started to deaden the material.”
“I was really excited”: The story of how Donald Fagen almost became Bob Dylan’s keyboardist
“Dylan passed up a good thing.”
Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen on why rap wasn’t an original sound
Steely Dan were never afraid to voice their opinion on contemporary music.
Legitimate criticisms versus personal bitterness: Why Donald Fagen once described Bob Dylans as “tedious”
“A psychiatrist would be more useful than a throat doctor at this point.”
Donald Fagen on why Steely Dan wouldn’t thrive today: “It’s just not the same medium”
“I’m not sure if it’s the same.”
“Humiliated”: the only early singles Steely Dan actually liked
Still finding their feet as musicians.