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Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the co-founder, guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter of the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Becker met future songwriting partner Donald Fagen while they were students at Bard College. After a brief period of activity in ...
Mar 2, 2023 · Steely Dan broke up and Becker retired to a farm in Hawaii, where eventually he built a recording studio of his own. Becker beat the addiction and slowly reentered the world of music. Becker re-teamed with Fagen for the album Two Against Nature, released in 2000, which took the Grammy award for Album of the Year.
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Sep 3, 2017 · Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67. Becker’s official site announced...
Sep 3, 2017 · Walter Becker, the co-founder of Steely Dan who was known for his acerbic wit and his proficient work with the guitar, has died. He was 67.
Sep 3, 2017 · Walter Becker, the guitarist and songwriter who made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies and verbal enigmas in Steely Dan, his partnership with Donald Fagen, died on...
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Sep 22, 2017 · Friends and collaborators of the late Walter Becker discuss how his troubled life and musical genius fed into the dark sophistication of Steely Dan.
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Sep 4, 2017 · Rob Sheffield mourns Steely Dan's elusive genius Walter Becker, who died the same day as the United States' greatest living writer, poet John Ashbery.
Sep 3, 2017 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rock and roll fan with a penchant for harmony and obtuse references, Walter Becker, the guitarist, bassist and co-founder of the 1970s rock group Steely Dan, which sold more than 40 million albums and produced such hit singles as "Reelin' In the Years," ?
Walter Becker Official Site. Last CD 'Circus Money' MP3s, Lyrics, Reviews, History, Photos, Writings, Walter Becker University and More.
Sep 4, 2017 · Steely Dan co-founder and guitarist Walter Becker died Sunday at 67. He formed Steely Dan in 1971 and introduced a unique sound in rock, with hits such as “Do it Again” and “Reeling’ in ...