'Steely Dan' is a rock band with influences of black music such as blues, jazz and soul, originated in the USA during 1971. Its founding members, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker took their name from the novel The Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, 1959) where Steely Dan (with its versions I, II and III) is the name of some ("vibrators for sexual use") that worked on steam [20 years before steampunk! ??]
