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Steely Dan's Aja
Paperback
Series: 33 1/3, Book 46
MusiciansPop/RockMusic Reference
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9780826427830
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Us
Published: May 15 2007
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.36 Width: 4.78 Depth: 6.56
Language: English
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.
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