Contents

Acknowledgements

A Squonk’s Tears – Steely Dan at forty-five
Barney Hoskyns

 

ONE: Thrill Seekers

1   Rock and roll via Third Stream

Chris Van Ness, Los Angeles Free Press, October 1972

2   Review of Can’t Buy A Thrill

Andrew Tyler, Disc, January 1973

3   Get Your Thrills Here

Penny Valentine, Sounds, March 1973

4   Counting Down to Headline Status

Steven Rosen, Los Angeles Free Press, August 1973

5   Review of Countdown to Ecstasy

Mick Gold, Let It Rock, December 1973

6   Walking Slow, Drinking Alone, And Moving Swiftly Through The Night …

Wayne Robins, New Musical Express, February 1974

TWO: Dark Companions

1   Review of Pretzel Logic

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, March 1974

2   Band Breakdown

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1974

3   Review of Katy Lied

Jonh Ingham, Let It Rock, June 1975

4   Yes, it’s Steely Dan Versus the Fifth Ice Age

Richard Cromelin, New Musical Express, April 1975

5   Review of The Royal Scam

Bud Scoppa, Circus, August 1976

6   Art for Art’s Sake

Michael Watts, Melody Maker, June 1976

THREE: Glamour Professionals

1   Review of Aja

Richard C. Walls, Creem, January 1978

2   Retrospective review of Aja

Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2011

3   Steely Dan Dare to give Sylvie Simmons a more-open-than-usual interview

Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, October 1977

4   Retrospective review of Gaucho

Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2002

5   Disaster and Triumph in the Custerdome

Robert Palmer, Rolling Stone, February 1981

FOUR: New Frontiersmen

1   Review of Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, October 1982

2   Donald Fagen Revisits an Era of Innocence

Fred Schruers, Musician, January 1983

3   Walter Becker: Breaking the Silence

Mark Leviton, BAM, December 1985

4   Donald Fagen: Reeling In The Years

Rob Steen, the Independent, November 1991

5   Review of Fagen’s Kamakiriad

Geoffrey Himes, the Washington Post, March 1993

6   Donald Fagen: The Man Who Came in From the Cool

Barney Hoskyns, Arena, Spring 1993

7   The Dream Ticket

Nick Coleman, Time Out, September 1993

8   Review of Becker’s 11 Tracks Of Whack

Geoffrey Himes, the Washington Post, December 1994

FIVE: Heavy Rollers

1   Stand-Up Rock’n’Roll: The Return of Steely Dan

Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1995

2   Review of Show at Wembley Arena, London

Chris Ingham, MOJO, November 1996

3   Review of Two Against Nature

Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2000

4   Hey Nineteen: It’s About Time

Wayne Robins, Los Angeles Times, February 2000

5   Steely Dan and Jazz

Chris Ingham, Jazzwise, December 2000

6   Review of Everything Must Go

Richard Williams, the Guardian, June 2003

7   A Droll Double Act

Gavin Martin, the Independent, June 2003

SIX: Grey Eminences

1   Review of Fagen’s Morph The Cat

Geoffrey Himes, the Washington Post, March 2006

2   At Long Last, Fagen Puts The ‘Cat’ Out

Ira Robbins, Newsday, March 2006

3   Becker’s Circus Money

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, June 2008

4   Review of Fagen’s Sunken Condos

Adam Sweeting, the Arts Desk, October 2012

5   Donald Fagen

Bruce Pollock, Songfacts, November 2012

6   Review of Fagen’s Eminent Hipsters

Ian Penman, City Journal, January 2014

7   Icon: Donald Fagen

Dylan Jones, GQ, February 2014

 

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