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Retrieved December 3, Fagen, a "lonely" kid, then turned to late-night jazz radio shows for the vitality he felt the new music lacked. Fagen remembered being enchanted by the prospects of a "gleaming future," and hoped to give an optimistic look back at it. The Captain And Me. The Nightfly would eventually be part of triad of albums that were meant to represent the three stages of life — youth, middle age and death. Donald Fagen, born in Passaic , New Jersey , in , grew up with an affinity for music.

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I fell into a bit of a depression for a while. Similar to the Aja and Gaucho albums, a large number of studio musicians were employed, with the liner notes crediting a total 31 musicians.

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A lot of kids were looking for alternatives, and it's amazing how many of us found them in jazz, in other kinds of black music and in the sort of hip ideas and attitudes we could pick up on the late-night radio talk shows. Recording Morph The Cat ". On the cover of the album Fagen portrays the imaginary Nightfly, a late-night radio jock, seated behind a turntable, with a cigarette in his right hand while his left is wrapped around the base of an RCA 77DX microphone.

I'd write a faan and then a week later Donadl just wouldn't connect with it at all. For the English disc jockey, see Tommy Vance. A lot of kids were looking for alternatives, and it's amazing how many of us found them in jazz, in other kinds of black music, in science fiction and in the sort of hip ideas and attitudes we could pick up on the light-night radio talk shows from New York City.

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He's playing it softly, so his parents won't wake up, and he can barely make out the sounds through the static. Brighter And Lighter According to Fagen himself, 'I actually tried to write these new songs with as little irony as possible'. Solitude Standing Joan Armatrading: The result was a treat donqld audiophile ears and platinum sales both here and in the US Having established himself in the s as half of the acclaimed thinking person's rock duo Steely Dan, Donald Fagen became a solo performer in when his partnership with Walter Becker fell apart.

Recording Industry Association of America. The Nightfly is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Donald Fagen. Fagen was previously best known for his work in donzld group Steely Danwith whom he enjoyed a successful career in the s. Problems playing this file? Though previous Steely Dan projects were often recorded live, Fagen opted to overdub each part separately for The Nightfly.

ddonald One of my only escapes was late-night radio shows broadcast from Manhattan — jazz and rhythm and nibhtfly. The engineers discovered the source on the outside of the building: And I wanted to make an album that was more personal…'.

But anyone familiar with Steely Dan's work inevitably wonders whether this apparently euphoric vision of the future is real or ironic. For starters, whereas much of Steely Dan's output had been in the form of cryptic, fictionalised story songs, most of the lyrics on The Nightfly were clearly autobiographical in nature. I started to address some of these things with The Nightflyand I got really scared after it was done; I felt I'd exposed myself in a way that I wasn't used to doing, and I kind of retreated psychologically from that.

It is a composite character of myself, what I remember and people I knew. Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen. I think, that like a lot of artists, especially in the music business, I was young and successful, and I was basically still an adolescent. And after that, I wasn't really inspired to do anything.

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It became enormously difficult, between this approach and the new technology, to record the album. Many of the songs relate to the cautiously optimistic mood of his suburban childhood in the late s and early s, and incorporate such topics as late-night jazz disc jockeysfallout sheltersand tropical vacations. Donald Fagen, born in PassaicNew Jerseyingrew up with an affinity for music. It wasn't relevant to what I was going through at the time.

The relatively low-key but long-lived popularity of The Nightfly led Robert J.

It was the nighhtfly song to be recorded, and took form "almost as an afterthought," according to writer Sweet. He began working towards a solo album shortly thereafter. Retrieved December 3, I mean, what happened?