Elevator music on steroids, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s band were titled “the perfect musical antihereos for the Seventies” by Rolling Stone.
While hey have more chord-changes than you can shake a stick at in each and every song with their perfectionist-minded complex jazz-influenced structures, Steely Dan was able to strike enough of a balance with pop sensibility to go on and sell over 40 million albums worldwide as well as join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
