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Steely Dan

The Royal Scam

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The Royal Scam is the fifth album by Steely Dan, originally released by ABC Records in 1976. The album went gold and peaked at #15 on the charts. Becker and Fagen revealed that “Kid Charlemagne” is loosely based on Augustus Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug “chef” who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that “Caves of Altamira” is about the loss of innocence, the narrative about a visitor to the Cave of Altamira who registers his astonishment at the prehistoric drawings. The album was re-issued by MCA Records in 1979 following the sale of the ABC Records label to MCA. Read on...

Song lines: ♪ And they wandered in from the city of St. John ... Of the royal scamSee the glory ♫

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