Nor are there any from its follow-up Gaucho. I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album – is beloved by many fans. An equal number of their fans revile it.

Steely Dan have been making music for nearly 55 years - but many of the band's fans have been left scratching their heads over the meaning of their stage name. The American rock band, formed by ...

It looked for quite some time the legacy of Steely Dan would be confined to the ‘70s, a decade their music helped define. Who could ever have expected that they’d make a grand return ...

I knew Steely Dan was going to do this song and I was just finishing building a Stratocaster. No dressings on it. It weighed about, I don’t know, ten pounds. It was a very heavy instrument.