'An indispensable compendium for Steely Dan fans' The Wire At its
core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker,
Steely Dan are one of the defining and bestselling American rock
acts of the last half-century, recording several of the cleverest
and best-produced albums of the '70s - from the breathlessly catchy
Can't Buy a Thrill to the sleekly sinister Gaucho. In the '90s they
returned to remind us of how sorely we had missed their elegance
and erudition, subsequently recording Two Against Nature and
Everything Must Go during the following decade. They have sold
close to forty-five million albums. 'A lot of people think of them
as the epitome of boring '70s stuff,' novelist William Gibson said
in 1993, when Becker and Fagen toured for the first time in
nineteen years. 'They don't realize this is probably the most
subversive material pop has ever thrown up.' Now fully embraced by
the 'Yacht Rock' generation - semi-ironic devotees of '70s
Southern-California slickness - Steely Dan no longer polarize lo-fi
punks and studio geeks in the way they used to. In 2001 they were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Major Dudes collects
some of the smartest and wittiest interviews Becker and Fagen have
ever given, along with insightful reviews of - and commentary on -
their extraordinary songs. Compiled by Rock's Backpages editor
Barney Hoskyns, the book's contributors include Charles Shaar
Murray, Robert Palmer, Ian MacDonald, Bud Scoppa, Penny Valentine,
Fred Schruers, Sylvie Simmons and Michael Watts.
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