While recording 'Peg', Steely Dan went through six guitarists and scrapped them all before landing on Jay Graydon and using ...

As Fagen revealed in 2006, Rikki was actually a woman named Rikki Ducornet. He met her at a Halloween party at Bard College ...

There’s no band out there quite like Steely Dan. This jazz rock fusion outfit was called “musical antiheroes of the seventies” for good reason. That being said, choosing their very best songs is no ...

Steely Dan produced seven albums during their classic run in the 1970s, but critics disagree about the goodness of 1976's ...

While reading the many fine tributes written over the weekend for Steely Dan’s Walter Becker — who died Sunday at age 67 — I noticed two common threads. The first is that people have been eulogizing ...

A 1976 rock classic was named among the greatest guitar solos of all time and it still stands up today.

Steely Dan started out from a pretty intellectual place. After all, they memorably named themselves after an obscure sexual aid from William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel Naked Lunch. By the time they ...

During Steely Dan‘s 1979 sessions for Gaucho, what would be the final album of their original run, a song titled “The Second Arrangement” was accidentally erased from the master tapes. These were the ...

Steely Dan's "FM (No Static at All)" was created for a comedy-drama of the same name, released in 1978, that became a hit ...

Steely Dan are one of those bands you either love or hate. To some, they represent the highest peaks of songwriting and studio craft, with lyrical vignettes about lost souls and strange characters ...

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 ...

A Vulture series in which studio musicians select their best performances. “I used to go all the way to the backroom, find a guitar, smash it against the wall, and go to the manager and say, ‘Hey, ...