Steely Dan: A Droll Double Act
Gavin Martin, Independent, The, 6 June 2003
IT IS LATE AFTERNOON before Walter Becker and Don Fagen greet their first interviewer of the day. The two men, who first fronted a band called Steely Dan in 1972, are lounging in a fifth floor suite of the Ocean front Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica California.
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