There’s no story anywhere in music like Steely Dan. The Seventies jazz-rock masterminds have gone in and out of style over the years, but they’ve never been more popular, more influential ...

Nor are there any from its follow-up Gaucho. I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album – is beloved by many fans. An equal number of their fans revile it.

As usual, these classic interviews are complemented by extensive new reviews of every Steely Dan album, and every Becker and Fagen solo album; a catalogue that, in its jaded acuity and ceaseless ...

Before the fourth album, Katy Lied, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had retained control of Steely Dan while the live band members were mostly replaced by session guys. One of the fresh hirings was ...

Their full story is in to be found in the following ... our in-depth reviews of every album by Steely Dan, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. Notoriously, the band quit the stage in 1974, in order ...