Happy birthday to Donald Fagen, born January 10, 1948.
One half of the legendary duo Steely Dan, and the sole surviving member, Fagan has melded rock, jazz, R&B and various other styles into a style of music that is as unique as it is timeless. Songs like “Peg,” “Reeling In The Years,” “Hey Nineteen” and others sounds as good now as they did when they were first released. And the group’s several albums of the 1970s — particularly Aja – are now considered classics.
Fagen’s tours with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs as the “Dukes of September” further solidified his place among the popular music elite and introduced his music to a younger generation.
