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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 ...
The Very Best of Steely Dan: ... All songs are written and composed by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Side one; No. ... "Kid Charlemagne" The Royal Scam: 4:29: 4.
The remaining six tracks include two additional charting singles "My Old School" and 'Kid Charlemagne," a cover of Duke Ellington's "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" which had been issued as a promotional single and "Bad Sneakers" which missed the Billboard Hot 100 as a single, and two album tracks, "Bodhisattva" and "Babylon Sisters."
Many of their songs concern love, but typical of Steely Dan songs is an ironic or disturbing twist in the lyrics that reveals a darker reality. For example, expressed "love" is actually about prostitution ("Pearl of the Quarter"), incest (" Cousin Dupree "), pornography ("Everyone's Gone to the Movies"), or some other socially unacceptable ...
All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. "Reelin' in the Years" (from Can't Buy a Thrill, 1972) – 4:37 "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (from Pretzel Logic, 1974) – 4:32
Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party is a live video recording of a PBS In the Spotlight special on Steely Dan, released in 2000.This video focuses on a special concert, recorded live in January 2000 at Sony Studios in New York City, New York, and features tracks from their (at the time) unreleased album Two Against Nature but also contains additional documentary footage.
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.