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  2. Steely Dan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Steely Dan discography - Wikipedia

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    Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan – Then and Now. Release date: November 1993; Label: MCA — 34 21 7 — 38 42 ARIA: Platinum [19] 2000 Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 1972–1980. Release date: November 14, 2000; Label: MCA/Universal Music TV — — — 27 — — 53 2006 Steely Dan: The Definitive Collection. Release date: August 1 ...

  4. The Royal Scam - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Countdown to Ecstasy - Wikipedia

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    [18] Erik Adams of The A.V. Club called the album a "dossier of literate lowlifes, the type of character studies that say, 'Why yes, the name Steely Dan is an allusion to a dildo described in Naked Lunch.' These characters hang around the corners of the entire Steely Dan discography, but they come into their own on Countdown to Ecstasy". [19]

  6. Aja (album) - Wikipedia

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    Aja (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə /, pronounced "Asia") is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on September 23, 1977, by ABC Records.For the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players, enlisting the services of nearly 40 musicians, while pursuing longer, more sophisticated ...

  7. Deacon Blues - Wikipedia

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    "Deacon Blues" was released on Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja which reached No. 3 on Billboard ' s album chart, a position it held for seven consecutive weeks. [2] The song was the duo's fifth Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, where it peaked at number 19 the weeks of June 10 and 17, 1978.

  8. Found Studio Tracks - Wikipedia

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    The collection, or parts of it, was also released under numerous album names, such as Donald Fagan and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, and Walter Becker / Donald Fagen - The Early Years. [1] The most complete collections are Android Warehouse , [ 2 ] and Catalyst: The Original Recordings 1968-71 [ 3 ] for a total of 28 or 29 songs (the latter ...

  9. List of musician and band name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Steely Dan – A dildo in the novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. [ 305 ] Steen1 – The artist originally chose Steen Christensen as his artist name after the Danish criminal who shot and killed two police officers in Finland (the artist is unrelated to the criminal), but later changed it to Steen1 because of too much controversy.