Chase would find fame a decade later on SNL, while Fagen and Becker would go on to form Steely Dan, the musical duo behind ...

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 ...

Another long-lost Steely Dan track has finally been brought to light — this time, an early-'70s jingle written for the Milwaukee-based Schlitz Beer. You can listen to the track below. The Schlitz Beer ...

The LP’s release is part of a campaign that will see Steely Dan’s first seven studio effort return to vinyl. The initiative, which is being overseen by frontman Donald Fagen, began in November 2022 ...

Steely Dan has been more of a conceptual framework for inventive music-making than a typical rock band. Spearheaded by a pair of resourceful musical auteurs Donald Fagen and Walter Becker - they have ...

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 ...

As the seventies wore on, the core members of Steely Dan—Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who died this month at 67—became as well-known for their studio perfectionism as they were for their songs. The ...

This essay is adapted from Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay’s “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. A few months after Steely Dan co-founder ...

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 ...

“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 ...

It's sad when families get bogged down in legal squabbles. It's sad when classic rock greats do it. Saddest of all is when one of the involved parties is dead. It was already a rough year for Steely ...

Becker had been in ill health recently. — -- Walter Becker, guitarist and bass player for Steely Dan, has died. He was 67. Becker had been in ill health recently, and did not perform with his ...