Originally published on July 18, 2013 By Alan Sculley Finger Lakes Times GENEVA, NY — In the 1970s, Steely Dan became that decade’s ultimate studio band, having decided in 1975 to quit touring to concentrate on turning out studio albums like Pretzel Logic (1974), The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977). Donald Fagen and […]
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Steely Dan’s Fagen and Becker Say New Music ‘In the Air’
Originally published on July 17, 2013 By Chuck Yarborough The Cleveland Plain Dealer CLEVELAND — Remember elementary-school science class, when Mr. Wizard talked about polarity of magnets, how the south end of one magnet repelled the south end of another, while the opposite ends were instantly attached? Well, on a whole BUNCH of levels, Steely […]
New Steely Dan Album? ‘It’s In the Air’
By Gary Graff Billboard Walter Becker says he and Donald Fagen can “smell” a new Steely Dan album coming, the first since the 2003 Top 10 entry “Everything Must Go.” “It’s in the air, it really is,” Becker told Billboard during a good-naturedly sarcastic conference call with reporters to advance the group’s Mood Swings 2013: […]
