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Steely Dan are an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone magazine has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies." The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric" lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, crime, and their true-to-life "contempt of west coast hippies." The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho — an album that contains only seven songs. They have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.
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Deacon Blues
from "Aja"
1977 - Walter Becker -
Josie
from "Aja"
1977 - Chuck Rainey -
Kid Charlemagne
from "The Royal Scam"
1976 - Chuck Rainey -
Peg
from "Aja"
1977 - Chuck Rainey
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