"Aja" was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the
order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago.
A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the
Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit
singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious,
extended" work, the antithesis of their anti-rock, anti-band,
anti-glamour aesthetic. Populated by thirty-five mostly jazz
session players, "Aja" served up pre-war song forms, mixed meters
and extended solos to a generation whose idea of pop daring was
Paul letting Linda sing lead once in a while. And, impossibly, it
sold. Including an in-depth interview with Donald Fagen, this book
paints a detailed picture of the making of a masterpiece.
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