By David Browne Entertainment Weekly Both nothing and everything sounds out of place on Kamakiriad (Reprise), the long-delayed return to the record bins of former Steely Dan singer, keyboardist, and jaundiced wit Donald Fagen. Steely Dan was the first slacker pop band, mixing in bits of hipster jazz rhythms and lingo into sardonic pop that […]
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Steely Dan Founders Get Juices Flowing
By Chicago Tribune For Steely Dan fans, it’s been a drought of biblical proportions: 12 years and counting without any new music from one of the more innovative bands of the 1970s. There have been no albums from either of Steely Dan’s founding members, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, since 1982, when Mr. Fagen released […]
Steely Dan, Scaggs, Snow Find New Life
By Steve Morse Boston Globe Remember when rock ‘n’ roll used to be such sheer fun that it didn’t matter what clothes you wore, what hairstyle you had, what record label you were on, what video you made, what agency you were with? Or what chameleon image you had this year as opposed to last? Those […]
Ex-Dan Man Fagen Relaxes for ‘Revue’
By Gary Graff Detroit Free Press When Donald Fagen began popping up a few years ago at assorted New York nightspots, heads turned and ears perked up. As half of the late and lamented ’70s group Steely Dan, Mr. Fagen was hardly what you would call a road rat. In fact, the band had stopped […]
Donald Fagen: Reeling In The Years
By Rob Steen The Independent LONDON — Not before time, the man who did it again is doing it again. But, after nine years of soundtrack credits and precious little else, muffled is the only way to convey the re-emergence of Donald Fagen, aka Lester The Nightfly from WJAZ, the co-founder of the group Steely Dan, […]
Return of the Nightfly
By Richard Cromelin Los Angeles Times Donald Fagen is known nearly as much for his reclusive nature as he is for his role in Steely Dan, the cerebral rock duo that combined commercial clout with artistic distinction before dissolving in depression and drug problems at the end of the ’70s. It took Fagen two years […]
Donald Fagen: A Nightfly Up Against The Wall
Richard Cook meets the urbane spokesman of cool, Donald Fagen, who, for 14 years, partnered Walter Becker in Steely Dan. A celebrated eccentric, Fagen is now experiencing international success with his own solo career and the LP, The Nightfly. Originally published on January 22, 1983 By Richard Cook New Musical Express In person, it seems like […]
