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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Steely Dan albums, Steely Dan members, Steely Dan songs, Gaucho, Donald Fagen, Bernard Purdie, Michael McDonald, Roger Nichols, Steve Gadd, Jeff Baxter, Michael Omartian, Steely Dan discography, Jeff Porcaro, Larry Carlton, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, Phil Woods, Chuck Rainey, Elliott Randall, Aja, Walter Becker, Victor Feldman, The Royal Scam, Pretzel Logic, Can't Buy a Thrill, Katy Lied, Countdown to Ecstasy, Jon Herington, Two Against Nature, Kid Charlemagne, Do It Again, Steve Khan, Hey Nineteen, Chris Potter, Everything Must Go, Deacon Blues, Denny Dias, Dean Parks, Keith Carlock, Wilton Felder, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, FM, Reelin' In the Years, Peg, Cornelius Bumpus, Bad Sneakers, Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Cousin Dupree, Everything You Did, Gary Katz, David Palmer, Jim Hodder, Home at Last, Janie Runaway, Gaslighting Abbie, Charlie Freak. Excerpt: Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies." The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric" lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, and crime. The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho - an album that contains only seven songs. Steely Dan toured from 1972 t...
