Library Rock's Backpages

Steely Dan: Ultimate Spinach Meets Naked Lunch's Dildo

Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1973

LOS ANGELES — Steely Dan named itself after William Burroughs' mighty dildo in Naked Lunch. "We just wanted to give the band a little more thrust than most other bands," quipped Donald Fagen. It must have been a good idea; the group's single, 'Do It Again', was a recent Top Ten, and the album, Can't Buy a Thrill, is Top Twenty.

Total word count of piece: 633

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.