Steely Dan: Excerpts from a Teenage Opera
Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, June 1977
EVEN IN THE DAYS when Steely Dan was a finite rock band of relatively normal constitution, leaders Walter Becker and Donald Fagen insisted that it was more a concept than a group.
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