[2025-08-12] Steely Dan "Steely Dan: Reelin' In The Years (Reprint Edition)" softcover by Brian Sweet (Omnibus)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:14 am

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1915841844/?tag=imwan-20

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Reelin' In The Years is the acclaimed biography of Steely Dan.

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a couple of cynical New York jazz fans wormed their way into a record contract and astonished critics with their first album Can't Buy A Thrill in 1973. Nine albums later, they were among the biggest selling acts in the world. Steely Dan were different from the rest of rock's super-sellers. They rarely gave interviews and, after some early bad experiences on the road, they refused to tour. They didn't have their photographs taken and few people knew what they looked like. Steely Dan weren’t even a proper group; it was two musicians and a producer, yet every top notch player in the world lined up to appear on their albums.

Brian Sweet, former editor and publisher of Metal Leg, the Steely Dan fanzine, draws back the veil of secrecy that has surrounded Becker and Fagen. Here is the true story of how they made their music and lived their lives.

Includes many photographs and a complete discography.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

Too bad he's not updating it to cover the reunion and Becker's passing, etc.

It's a really great book.

[2025-08-12] Steely Dan "Steely Dan: Reelin' In The Years (Reprint Edition)" softcover by Brian Sweet (Omnibus)

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