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Michael H. McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter and keyboardist. Known for his distinctive, soulful voice, he was a backing vocalist for Steely Dan from 1975 to 1980 and the lead vocalist of the Doobie Brothers across various stints (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present).
However, Dias remained with the group until 1980's Gaucho and Michael McDonald contributed vocals until the group's twenty-year hiatus after Gaucho. Baxter and McDonald went on to join The Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan's last tour performance was on July 5, 1974, a concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California. [4]
[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]
Katy Lied is the fourth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in March 1975, by ABC Records; reissues have since been released by MCA Records due to ABC's acquisition by the former in 1979. It was the first album the group made after they stopped touring, as well as their first to feature backing vocals by Michael McDonald.
Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. “I was afraid that, ‘Well, how much of a story is here, really?' My experience is pretty much me living vicariously ...
Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Originally having a full band lineup, Becker and Fagen chose to stop performing live by the end of 1974 and continued Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, utilizing a ...
Doobie Brothers singer Michael McDonald was its voice. And Kenny Loggins was its poster boy. "Yacht rock to me is a very relaxing feeling. ... Although Fagen, whose Steely Dan partner, Walter ...
Michael McDonald's backing vocals on the song are some of his first for the band; [6] he would continue to perform backing vocals for the band in recordings until 1980. [7] The song also appears on the compilation albums A Decade of Steely Dan [8] and Citizen Steely Dan.