Steely Dan's Aja
Paperback or Softback 144 pages May 15, 2007
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Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious, extended" work, the apotheosis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour aesthetic. Populated by thirty-fi ve mostly jazz session players, Aja served up prewar song forms, mixed meters and extended solos to a generation whose idea of pop daring was Paul letting Linda sing lead once in a while. And, impossibly, it sold. Including an in-depth interview with Donald Fagen, this book paints a detailed picture of the making of a masterpiece.
- Author:
- Don Breithaupt
- Publisher:
- Continuum
- Publication Date:
- May 15, 2007
- Number of pages:
- 144 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 0826427839
- ISBN-13:
- 9780826427830