Photo by Alexander Cropper/Redferns For Britpop newbies, here are a few facts to catch you up to speed on the 1990s and a time when guitar bands domi... read more
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Fagen talks about how the Steely Dan songwriting strategy has changed over the years, and explains why you don't hear many covers of their songs.
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?
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Originally from Allentown, PA., I was an intern at WNEP-TV 16 in 1987 and had no idea that The Buoys were from Wilkes-Barre. The song had gotten a lot of play in the Allentown area, and one morning it played on the radio at the TV station and Frank Andrews (a noon news anchor at the time) assured me that it was about a mule. Apparently he swallowed the KoolAid as well, as we now know that it WAS about a person. Ironically, I got a job at WNEP after the internship and moved to Wilkes-Barre, right across the bridge from Kingston, PA., where many of the bandmates were from (The Crackerbox!!). I spent a lot of time at the Playboy Steakhouse and Murray's, as well. I wanted to say, that YES, they DID release a 45 with a donkey picture and name of...