R.I.P. Walter Becker (Steely Dan)
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Co-founder of Steely Dan, guitarist, bassist, songwriter Walter Becker has died today (September 3rd, 2017), as announced on his official website.
Becker and Donald Fagen met at Bard College and formed Steely Dan in California around 1971. If you want to read about the Steely Dan years, don’t bother picking up Fagen’s autobiography Eminent Hipsters.
Steely Dan broke up in the late 80s, but reformed in 1993. The two Becker & Fagen remained active in Steely Dan, even up to the recent Summer 2017 shows. However, Becker was ill enough that he couldn’t make it to the Classic West Music Festival in Los Angeles in July 2017.
Below are more deaths for the month of September – for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2017.
[03 Sep 2017] Walter Becker (American musician and songwriter; co-founder of Steely Dan), 67
[01 Sep 2017] Mick Softley (British singer-songwriter and guitarist), 77
[01 Sep 2017] Novella Nelson (American actress and singer), 77
Becker and Donald Fagen met at Bard College and formed Steely Dan in California around 1971. If you want to read about the Steely Dan years, don’t bother picking up Fagen’s autobiography Eminent Hipsters.
Steely Dan broke up in the late 80s, but reformed in 1993. The two Becker & Fagen remained active in Steely Dan, even up to the recent Summer 2017 shows. However, Becker was ill enough that he couldn’t make it to the Classic West Music Festival in Los Angeles in July 2017.
Below are more deaths for the month of September – for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2017.
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