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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 ...
The discography for the American jazz rock band Steely Dan consists of nine studio albums, twenty one singles, two live albums, one live set on DVD, seven compilations and one box set in the United States. The band was originally active from 1971 to 1981 and later reformed in 1993 and continued to release studio and live material up to today.
Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972, by ABC Records.It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and recorded in August 1972 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz.
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.
"Josie" is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and first released by Steely Dan on their 1977 album Aja.It was also released as the third single from the album and performed modestly well, reaching number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 44 on the Easy Listening chart that year. [2]
Today, Fagen continues to lead a road-tested version of the Dan, and he’s just released a pair of live albums: Northeast Corridor, a set of classic Steely Dan tunes, and The Nightfly Live, a ...
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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 ...