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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.
The album sold well in the United States, though without the strength of a hit single. In the UK the single "Haitian Divorce" (Top 20) drove album sales, becoming Steely Dan's first major hit there. [29] Steely Dan's sixth album, the jazz-influenced Aja, was released in September 1977.
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 ...
Drink your big black cow and get back in here. Donald Fagen has simultaneously released two new live albums — one under the nearly 50-year-old banner of Steely Dan; one billed as a solo album ...
"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]
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 ...
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.
Notorious curmudgeon and Steely Dan co-founder Fagen, who at first didn’t respond to his overtures. After several months, Steely Dan’s longtime manager Irving Azoff told Price that Fagen would ...