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Donald Fagen on "Peg"

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Marc Myers
Apr 08, 2020
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A bunch of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Steely Dan's Donald Fagen at length by phone. Both of us were holed up in our respective homes. For the next 45 minutes, we talked about the writing and recording of Peg in 1977 on Steely Dan's atmospheric Aja album. It was my fourth interview with Donald, who doesn't do many of these. The intervi…

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