The fool in Steely Dan's "Only a Fool Would Say That" is John Lennon

Steely Dan's lyrics were intellectual, literary, and sometimes sexist and racist, both a product of their time and a product out of time. Okay, I had to get that out. Primarily known as a studio band, with the absolute most talented studio musicians of the day rolling through their sessions, the Dan — named after a dildo in the fantastically strange and extraordinarily prescient experimental novel Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, made musically astounding records with singable choruses and unique, unforgettable themes. — Read the rest