You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs. Quantum Criminals is that book. Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay take a deep dive into the genius ...

The pair had formed the group to produce the songs too complex for the ABC artists they wrote for and turned to session ...

This essay is adapted from Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay’s “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. A few months after Steely Dan co ...

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And really no musical entity was stripping away the glossy veneer of that music and those lyrics to expose the human condition at its ironic worst—no one with the exception of Steely Dan. Stephen ...

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 many fans. An equal number of their fans revile it.

Steely Dan is more than just a band—they’re a musical phenomenon. Discover how Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s innovative approach, along with world-class session musicians, created some of ...

And he's decided to devote a summer series to celebrating a wide variety of them. First up is Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic." Released in 1974, it was the band's third album, one that yielded a big ...

The song comes from the archive of Steely Dan's longtime engineer Roger Nichols Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

Steely Dan has built a worldwide reputation primarily because of their legendary songs, but their quirky name also helped to pique listeners' interest. There was one night, however, when they ...

Steely Dan keyboardist Jim Beard has died, a representative for the musician confirmed to Fox News Digital. He was 63 years old. Beard died after complications from an illness in a New York ...