Is Steely Dan a person or the name of a band?
Though often enough confused with being a single person, Much like Jethro Tull, Steely Dan is the name of the band. Sources: http://www.steelydan.
Steely Dan is an American jazz-rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop.[1] Rolling Stone magazine has called them “the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies.”[2] The band’s music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians.[1] Steely Dan’s “cerebral,” “wry” and “eccentric”[1] lyrics are filled with sharp sarcasm which often touches upon such “dark” themes as drugs,[3][4][5][6] crime,[6] and their true-to-life “contempt of west coast hippies.”[5][6] The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio,[7][8] with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resul
