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Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Originally having a full band lineup, by the end of 1974 Becker and Fagen chose to stop playing live and continue Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, utilising a revolving cast of session ...
- 1971–1981, 1993–present
- Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States
Steely Dan Joins the Eagles on Their Final Tour, “The Long Goodbye”. Jul 06, 2023.
Oct 20, 2022 · Steely Dan’s 20 greatest songs – ranked! Donald Fagen of Steely Dan at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, in 1995. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images. With November marking 50 years since...
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- Alexis Petridis
Apr 24, 2024 · Steely Dan, American rock band that drew from the gamut of American musical styles to create some of the most intelligent and complex pop music of the 1970s. The band’s best-known songs included ‘Do It Again,’ ‘Reelin’ in the Years,’ and ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.’. Learn more about its history and music.
Steely Dan toured behind Can’t Buy A Thrill and the following two albums, Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic, both in the States and Britain. The band, now with Donald as the lead vocalist, expanded to include second drummer Jeff Porcaro, keyboardist/vocalist Michael McDonald and percussionist/vocalist Royce Jones.
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Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Originally having a full band lineup, by the end of 1974 Becker and Fagen chose to stop playing live and continue Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, utilising a revolving cast of session musicians. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies". Becker and Fagen ...
Sep 3, 2017 · A tribute to the late Walter Becker, the late jazz-rock duo Steely Dan's best songs, from their early days as Bard College hipsters to their later peak as wry sophisto-pop aesthetes. Learn the stories behind their sly lyrics, obscure references and off-color characters, and how they influenced Kanye West and Owsley Stanley III.