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 ...

The unforgettable song hails from an equally remarkable LP ...

Steely Dan didn't often put a foot wrong during their career, but there was one early song that Donald Fagen was reluctant to ...

Steely Dan’s Gaucho turned 40 last week. Forty is the perfect anniversary for a Steely Dan album, since so many of their narrators, on that album in particular but throughout their catalog, seem to be ...

Steely Dan nominally kept that lineup intact for Pretzel Logic, but their 1974 album began the shift from a five-piece band to a band in name only. From Pretzel Logic on forward, Steely Dan was a ...

Review of Steely Dan's album The Very Best Of Younger readers probably won't have heard the name Steely Dan (Appropriated from a sex toy featured in William Burroughs lysergic epic the Naked Lunch) - ...

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 ...

In pop music, Steely Dan’s hybrid of pop, jazz and R&B represents an artistic standard few can match. Steely Dan — the musical enterprise of songwriting team Walter Becker and Donald Fagen — hit its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do you look for in a song? I’ve spent years asking myself this. Am I a lyrics guy? Is it the actual music, like the piano or ...

“Dirty Work” was the Steely Dan song that came to my mind when the band’s Donald Fagen announced that he planned to tour this year, mere months after the death last September of his longtime creative ...