Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the seventies wore on, the core members of Steely Dan—Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who died this month at 67—became as ...

Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were notorious for demanding perfection from their studio musicians, particulalry when it came to guitar solos. With a number of crème de la crème A-list ...

We know these 1970s guitar solos, but not as many people know who actually played them. Revisit these guitar solos with the ...

When Fagen and Becker were in the midst of recording Gaucho, they listened to Dire Straits’ debut album and were particularly impressed by frontman Mark Knopfler’s guitar work on the seminal tune ...

You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs. Quantum Criminals is that book. Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay take a deep dive into the genius of ...

As a teenager teaching himself to play guitar in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I knew all about the brilliance of Steely Dan. That’s not because I liked Steely Dan. Far from it. I was a Beatles ...