As a skilled keyboard player, he teamed up with Walter Becker to create the rock band Steely Dan. They blended Becker’s nearly impossible electric- guitar riffs and Fagen’s lyrics to make their own unique jazz fusion. Their song Kid Charlemagne remains one of the most popular songs about abandoning an illegal drug lab.
The cover of Donald Fagen's album "The Nightfly," released in 1982.
That is Fagen on the cover.
Photo credit: James Hamilton
It is the birthday of the musician who sang,
“California tumbles into the sea, That'll be the day I go back to Annandale.”
-American singer-songwriter Donald Fagen, born on this day in 1948.
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