Donald Fagen-The Nightfly (1982)

In the late 1970s Steely Dan was immersed in the recording of the album "Gaucho", and the obsessive perfectionism of its leader Donald Fagen and his bandmate Walter Brecker. About 50 musicians would participate in this recording and it would last two years, during which multiple creative, personal and professional differences arose, which would end up definitively finalizing the band and the end of the first stage of Steely Dan.
But Donald Fagen, far from abandoning the music business, would continue alone and several years later he would publish what is undoubtedly his masterpiece "The Nightfly", in which he showed his influence on the spirit of Steely Dan but with renewed and updated sounds.
This album was one of the first records in history to be recorded on a digital system, despite the fact that it caused numerous technical problems for Donald and his expert army during the extremely meticulous registration process, and that is that one of Fagen's own demands on His new company (Warner Bros) was to summon almost the entire disciplined legion of musicians who had already worked with him on his ex-band (producer, engineers, studio musicians, etc.), in addition to other additional luxury collaborations. As always, the more than thirty hard-working companions experienced the "slow Chinese martyrdoms" to which Fagen subjected them in rehearsals. Nobody escaped "Millimetric Man" if he ventured to play with him and only the difficult recording lasted 8 months, commanded by that obsessive lover of technological-musical avant-garde who is Donald Fagen himself! And that nobody from his luxury establishment it occurred to him to make the most microscopic mistake in any chord!
The album contains an anthological repertoire with songs like "I.G.Y (What a Beautiful Day)", "New Frontier", "The Goodbye Look" or "Walk between the Raindrops".
This already mythical album achieved Platinum, entered the Top 20 in the United States and England, in addition to obtaining several international recognitions, among which the 7 nominations for the Grammys in 1983 stand out.