Music
‘I can’t pass the buck. I’ll take the blame for the screwup,’ Walter Becker says after Aimee Mann speculates sexism killed her gig with Steely Dan.
March 17, 2022
The first song in Donald Fagen’s show on Monday at the Wiltern LG was a pretty good clue that this first solo tour by the Steely Dan principal would be neither a greatest-hits joyride nor an infomercial for his new solo album, “Morph the Cat,” the ostensible reason for Fagen’s tour.
March 29, 2006
Adjectives like warm and nostalgic rarely are applied to the cynical and bittersweet music of Steely Dan.
Sept. 1, 1994
COUNTDOWN TO REUNION: Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are making plans for a summer reunion concert tour of Steely Dan--the first concerts for the act since 1975.
March 14, 1993
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.
Nov. 3, 1991
Donald Fagen has a pretty good reason why 13 years have passed since the last studio album from Steely Dan.
June 16, 2016
Entertainment & Arts
Walter Becker, co-founder with Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, died Sunday at age 67.
Sept. 3, 2017
FAGENOMETRY 101: Given that it took Donald Fagen more than a decade to follow up his first solo album with last year’s “Kamakiriad,” fans may be surprised to hear that the Steely Danner already has another new release out.
April 24, 1994
Flash back to the late ‘70s, exact date undetermined.
Aug. 22, 1993
“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 partner, Walter Becker.
May 31, 2018