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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 ...
"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]
Aja (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə /, pronounced "Asia") is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on September 23, 1977, by ABC Records.For the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players, enlisting the services of nearly 40 musicians, while pursuing longer, more sophisticated ...
The Very Best of Steely Dan: Reelin' In the Years; Greatest hits album by . Steely Dan. ... "Kid Charlemagne" The Royal Scam: 4:29: 4. "The Fez" The Royal Scam: 3:54 ...
The Best of Steely Dan: Then and Now is a compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 1993. ... "Kid Charlemagne" (from The Royal Scam, 1976) – 4:38
Libby Titus, a singer who recorded two albums in the late 1960s and ’70s before retiring from the music scene, later becoming the wife of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at age 77. No ...
Steely Dan's sixth album, the jazz-influenced Aja, was released in September 1977. Aja reached the Top Five in the U.S. charts within three weeks, winning the Grammy award for "Engineer—Best Engineered Recording—Non-Classical."
At one point in the documentary, Price rings up Donald Fagen, 76, the surviving full-time member of Steely Dan, the landmark '70s group behind yacht rock classics like "Ricki Don't Lose My Number ...