The genre-blending single launched the band into stardom and became one of classic rock’s most enduring songs.
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Reelin’ in the years: Ten essential Steely Dan songs

When I first heard that Steely Dan tribute band No Static was playing Bull Run in Shirley June 26, I … well, I made a bunch of jokes. The ’70s jazz-rock-fusion favorite comprising musicians Donald ...
In 1980, Steely Dan released their seventh album 'Gaucho', but due to an engineer's mishap with a tape machine, one song was ...
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 ...
For almost as long as Steely Dan's 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number' has been a hit, fans have been wondering who the real Rikki ...
This song's guitar solo was recorded in one take.
Aja is considered the band’s sonic pinnacle, but its predecessor gives your system just as much of a challenge ...
Prior to this Dan-sanctioned discovery, “The Second Arrangement” had only been available in low-quality bootlegs of questionable origin. Gary Katz, the band’s producer, told Expanding Dan that he ...
Donald Fagen led a crack band through Steely Dan's greatest hits Friday night at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Credit: Photo by David Clements Steely Dan was, and remains, an anomaly. More on ...
Steely Dan is known for the songwriting of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. But these songs would be the same without their ...
At the start of the pandemic, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen joked to Rolling Stone that he was spending quarantine “hangin’ tight in the Apple, baby, gargling Clorox under a sunlamp.” Luckily it turns out ...