Major Dudes by Hoskyns, Barney -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements A Squonk’s Tears – Steely Dan at forty-five Barney Hoskyns One: Thrill Seekers

1 Rock and roll via Third Stream 2 Review of Can’t Buy A Thrill 3 Get Your Thrills Here 4 Counting Down to Headline Status 5 Review of Countdown to Ecstasy 6 Walking Slow, Drinking Alone, And Moving Swiftly Through The Night …

Two: Dark Companions

1 Review of Pretzel Logic 2 Band Breakdown 3 Review of Katy Lied 4 Yes, it’s Steely Dan Versus the Fifth Ice Age 5 Review of The Royal Scam 6 Art for Art’s Sake

Three: Glamour Professionals

1 Review of Aja 2 Retrospective review of Aja 3 Steely Dan Dare to give Sylvie Simmons a more-open-than-usual interview 4 Retrospective review of Gaucho 5 Disaster and Triumph in the Custerdome

Four: New Frontiersmen

1 Review of Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly 2 Donald Fagen Revisits an Era of Innocence 3 Walter Becker: Breaking the Silence 4 Donald Fagen: Reeling In The Years 5 Review of Fagen’s Kamakiriad 6 Donald Fagen: The Man Who Came in From the Cool 7 The Dream Ticket 8 Review of Becker’s 11 Tracks Of Whack

Five: Heavy Rollers

1 Stand-Up Rock’n’Roll: The Return of Steely Dan 2 Review of Show at Wembley Arena, London 3 Review of Two Against Nature 4 Hey Nineteen: It’s About Time 5 Steely Dan and Jazz 6 Review of Everything Must Go 7 A Droll Double Act

Six: Grey Eminences

1 Review of Fagen’s Morph The Cat 2 At Long Last, Fagen Puts The ‘Cat’ Out 3 Becker’s Circus Money 4 Review of Fagen’s Sunken Condos 5 Donald Fagen 6 Review of Fagen’s Eminent Hipsters 7 Icon: Donald Fagen

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