50 years after its debut on Steely Dan's fifth record, The Royal Scam, the band's 1976 song, "Kid Charlemagne," is still getting recognition for its iconic 50-second guitar solo. Larry Carlton ...

In its inaugural list of the greatest guitar solos of all time written in 2008, Rolling Stone named Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne as the No. 80 solo. Nearly two decades later, Kid Charlemagne ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been said that it took some two hours in the studio with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker to work on the 50-second solo, which, ...

Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio helped honor Steely Dan at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday night. Anastasio led the house band in paying tribute to The Dan by performing ...

When considering the greatest guitar players who ever lived, it's often the same names that get brought up time and time again: Prince, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, just to name a few. However, there ...

(UMe) Steely Dan's darkly cynical and musically intricate fifth album, 1976's The Royal Scam, with such fan favorites as "Kid Charlemagne," "The Fez," "The Caves of Altamira," and the biting title ...

It doesn’t take much to get Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, to riff about guitar solos. She vividly remembers the first one she learned (Pearl Jam’s “Alive”). Now, 20 years into her career, she’s ...