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"Kid Charlemagne" is a song by American rock band Steely Dan, released in 1976 as the opening track on their album The Royal Scam. An edited version was released as a single, reaching number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] Larry Carlton's guitar solo on the song was ranked #80 in a 2008 list of the 100 greatest guitar solos by Rolling Stone. [3]
In common with other Steely Dan albums, The Royal Scam is littered with cryptic allusions to people and events, both real and fictional. In a BBC interview in 2000, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen revealed that "Kid Charlemagne" is loosely based on Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug "chef" who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that "The Caves of Altamira" is ...
on YouTube " My Old School " is a song by American rock band Steely Dan . It was released in October 1973, as the second single from their album Countdown to Ecstasy , and reached number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
[20] Record World called it "a pop-rock love song, crafted with [Steely Dan's] usual perfectionism and flair." [21] The song was the theme music for a celebrity paparazzi segment by the syndicated news magazine Entertainment Tonight from 1981 to 1985. [citation needed] "Peg" was heavily sampled on the 1989 De La Soul song "Eye Know". [22]
Alive in America is a live album by the American rock group Steely Dan, released in 1995. It is Steely Dan's first live album. It is Steely Dan's first live album. The album comprises recordings from their 1993 and 1994 tours, which were the first live Steely Dan performances since 1974.
Although Fagen, whose Steely Dan partner, Walter Becker, died in 2017, declined Price's invitation, a number of yacht rock practitioners pop up in the documentary to reminisce about the music that ...
Today, Fagen continues to lead a road-tested version of the Dan, and he’s just released a pair of live albums: Northeast Corridor, a set of classic Steely Dan tunes, and The Nightfly Live, a ...
The series took off, spurring renewed appreciation for the slickly produced sounds of artists like Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Toto, whose paths crossed in the L.A. music scene in the pre-MTV ...