Steely Dan: The Second Coming
Paul Zollo, Performing Songwriter, The, January 2000
IN MANHATTAN, a couple weeks before the final Christmas of the 20th Century. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have arrived together at the 12th floor, where Fagen was sure the office used to be. It's the first time the two of them have ever been here together, as this is the first interview they are giving to herald their new album Two Against Nature.
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