By Barney Hoskyns
ISBN-10: 1472127544
ISBN-13: 9781472127549
ISBN-10: 1472127560
ISBN-13: 9781472127563
At its center an inventive marriage among Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan are one of many defining and bestselling American rock acts of the final half-century, recording a number of of the cleverest and best-produced albums of the '70s - from the breathlessly catchy Can't purchase a Thrill to the sleekly sinister Gaucho.
In the '90s they lower back to remind us of the way sorely we had ignored their beauty and erudition, hence recording Two opposed to Nature and Everything needs to Go in the course of the following decade. they've got bought on the subject of forty-five million albums.
'A lot of individuals think about them because the epitome of uninteresting '70s stuff,' novelist William Gibson stated in 1993, whilst Becker and Fagen toured for the 1st time in nineteen years. 'They do not understand this can be the most subversive fabric pop has ever thrown up.'
Now totally embraced by way of the 'Yacht Rock' new release - semi-ironic devotees of '70s Southern-California slickness - Steely Dan not polarize lo-fi punks and studio geeks within the manner they used to. In 2001 they have been inducted into the Rock and Roll corridor of Fame.
Major Dudes collects a number of the smartest and wittiest interviews Becker and Fagen have ever given, besides insightful reports of - and statement on - their remarkable songs. Compiled via Rock's Backpages editor Barney Hoskyns, the book's participants comprise Charles Shaar Murray, Robert Palmer, Ian MacDonald, Bud Scoppa, Penny Valentine, Fred Schruers, Sylvie Simmons and Michael Watts.
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