Donald Fagen - The Nightfly - 1982
The back cover of the album depicts a house with a solitary window lit. Maybe one of the listeners to the radiostation. The Nightfly at 4:09 A.M..
Commentators took this also as a memory of Fagen's youth as a teenager?
Robert Palmer, of The New York Times, continued in this line of thinking: "Inside, there's a teenager with his ear next to a portable radio. He's playing it softly, so his parents won't wake up, and he can barely make out the sounds through the static."
The back cover of the album depicts a house with a solitary window lit. Maybe one of the listeners to the radiostation. The Nightfly at 4:09 A.M..
Commentators took this also as a memory of Fagen's youth as a teenager?
Robert Palmer, of The New York Times, continued in this line of thinking: "Inside, there's a teenager with his ear next to a portable radio. He's playing it softly, so his parents won't wake up, and he can barely make out the sounds through the static."