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    ‘The most important cassette on the planet’: how Steely Dan fans uncovered their holy grail

    Jun 25, 2023 4 minutes

    In August 2020, Cimcie Nichols posted a picture of an old cassette to Facebook. The tape had belonged to her father, the late recording engineer Roger Nichols; she had found it while archiving his possessions and shared it from his fan account.

    She didn’t think it would get so much attention so fast. Within an hour, news made it to Reddit, and her post was descended upon by a passionate group of online fans of Steely Dan.

    Cimcie had just posted a picture of their holy grail: a never-before-heard recording of The Second Arrangement, a near-complete version of the song by the US band which was lost forever after an assistant accidentally recorded over it in 1979.

    “It went viral,” Cimcie says, of her post. “I started, minds were exploding; it was, said one user, “the most important day in history”; another described what she had found as the “most important cassette on the planet”.

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