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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 ...
Steely Dan FAQ author Anthony Robustelli describes "Pretzel Logic" as a bluesy shuffle about time travel. [7] Fagen has stated that the lyrics, including anachronistic references to Napoleon and minstrel shows, are about time travel. [8] [7] According to Robustelli, the "platform" referred to in the song's bridge is the time travel machine. [7]
Pretzel Logic was released by ABC Records on February 20, 1974, [15] and it sold well. [9] In the United States, it charted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 and became Steely Dan's third album to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [16]
"Kid Charlemagne" is a song by American rock band Steely Dan, released in 1976 as the opening track on their album The Royal Scam. An edited version was released as a single, reaching number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] Larry Carlton's guitar solo on the song was ranked #80 in a 2008 list of the 100 greatest guitar solos by Rolling Stone. [3]
1984 – Tom Robinson recorded his version for the album Hope and Glory; the single release of the song matched Steely Dan's original version by peaking at No. 58 in the UK Singles Chart. [17] 1992 – Hank Marvin did an instrumental of the song on his album Into the Light. 1994 – Far Corporation made a cover of the song for their album Solitude.
Libby Titus, a singer who recorded two albums in the late 1960s and ’70s before retiring from the music scene, later becoming the wife of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at age 77. No ...
Many of their songs concern love, but typical of Steely Dan songs is an ironic or disturbing twist in the lyrics that reveals a darker reality. For example, expressed "love" is actually about prostitution ("Pearl of the Quarter"), incest (" Cousin Dupree "), pornography ("Everyone's Gone to the Movies"), or some other socially unacceptable ...
Do you see Steely Dan’s expanded appeal reflected in audience demographics at the shows? Yeah. There’s a lot of college-age kids, and more women, too, which is great.