Show Biz Kids

"Show Biz Kids"
Single by Steely Dan
from the album Countdown to Ecstasy
B-side "Razor Boy"
Released 1973
Format 7" single
Genre Rock, Jazz fusion
Length 3:59
Label ABC Records
Writer(s) Donald Fagen, Walter Becker
Producer Gary Katz
Steely Dan singles chronology
"Reelin' In the Years"
(1972)		 "Show Biz Kids"
(1973)		 "My Old School"
(1973)

Show Biz Kids is a song composed by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and performed by Steely Dan. It was the first single from Steely Dan's 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy.

The song features a slide guitar solo by guest Rick Derringer and biting lyrics commenting that its subjects "got the booze they need / All that money can buy" and that they "don't give a fuck about anybody else".

The song was sampled by Super Furry Animals on their 1996 single The Man Don't Give a Fuck.

Steely Dan
Studio albums
Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) · Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) · Pretzel Logic (1974) · Katy Lied (1975) · The Royal Scam (1976) · Aja (1977) · Gaucho (1980) · Two Against Nature (2000) · Everything Must Go (2003)
EPs
Four Tracks from Steely Dan (1977)
Live albums
Singles
"Dallas" · "Do It Again" · "Reelin' In the Years" · "Show Biz Kids" · "My Old School" · "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" · "Pretzel Logic" · "Black Friday" · "Bad Sneakers" · "Kid Charlemagne" · "The Fez" · "Haitian Divorce" · "Peg" · "Deacon Blues" · "FM (No Static at All)" · "Josie" · "Hey Nineteen" · "Babylon Sisters" · "Time Out of Mind" · "Reelin' In the Years" (Live) · "Cousin Dupree" · "What a Shame About Me" · "Jack of Speed" · "Janie Runaway" · "The Last Mall" · "Blues Beach" · "Things I Miss the Most"
Compilations
Greatest Hits (1978) · Steely Dan (1978) · Gold (1982/91) · A Decade of Steely Dan (1985) · Reelin' In the Years (1987) · Do It Again (1987) · Citizen Steely Dan (1993) · Then and Now (1993) · Showbiz Kids (2000) · The Definitive Collection (2006) · The Very Best of Steely Dan (2009)
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