The guy singing in a plaintive, nasal voice seemed pretty sure that Rikki was, in fact, going to lose that number every time he sang “And you could have a change of hea-a-art,” a gnarled run of notes followed that sounded oddly aggressive. I knew the band’s 1974 hit, “ Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” a steady presence on classic-rock radio, but I had trouble wrapping my head and ears around it. Steely Dan was also in the midst of a decades-long hiatus from releasing new studio albums, after putting out seven from 1972 to 1980. Steely Dan-the musical handle of the songwriting pair Walter Becker and Donald Fagen-was considered toxically uncool. Music obsessive that I was, this confounded me. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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