Steely Dan is an American rock band founded by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals) in 1972. Blending elements of jazz, traditional pop, R&B, and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics, the band enjoyed critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. Throughout their career, the duo recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians, and in 1974 retired from live performances to become a studio-only band. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies".
Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. It was produced by Gary Katz and written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The album was recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles.
Musicians:
Steely Dan
- David Palmer – lead vocals on "Dirty Work" and "Brooklyn", backing vocals
- Donald Fagen – acoustic and electric pianos, plastic (YC-30) organ, lead vocals (except on "Dirty Work", "Midnite Cruiser", and "Brooklyn"), backing vocals
- Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – guitar, pedal steel guitar, spoken word on "Only a Fool Would Say That"
- Denny Dias – guitar, electric sitar
- Walter Becker – electric bass, backing vocals, dual lead vocal on "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again"
- Jim Hodder – drums, percussion, lead vocal on "Midnite Cruiser", backing vocals
Session musicians
- Elliott Randall – lead guitar on "Kings" and "Reelin in the Years"
- Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone
- Snooky Young – flugelhorn
- Victor Feldman – percussion
- Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals on "Brooklyn" and "Kings"
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