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Walter Becker, co-founder with Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, died Sunday at age 67. In this Sunday Calendar interview published in The Times on Aug. 22, 1993, Becker and Fagen talked with Chris ...
Walter Becker, co-founder of Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67, according to his website. The news was later confirmed by his longtime bandmate Donald Fagen. In a statement, Fagen said "I ...
Walter Becker, a guitarist, bassist, and co-founder of Steely Dan, passed away on Sunday morning. He was sixty-seven, and living in Maui. No official cause of death has been offered publicly ...
He and Steely Dan's Walter Becker thought they could “make some easy money," but things didn't go to plan. Walter Becker's Estate Files to Dismiss Steely Dan Lawsuit Walter Becker's Estate Files ...
Steely Dan’s Walter Becker wasn’t a flashy guitarist or great singer. His genius came in his partnership with Donald Fagen, which began at Bard College in the late 1960s, stretched over seven ...
Some solo careers that have gone astray are surprising. A couple of the people mentioned below are singers and should have ...
A few months after Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker died — in 2017, at 67, of esophageal cancer — his widow Delia Becker wrote in a statement that he’d been cremated, per his wishes ...
Don't look for Walter Becker on those endless (ridiculous) listicles ranking the "Guitar Gods of the 1970s." He's rarely mentioned in the same breath as major dudes like Eric Clapton, or Jimmy ...
Donald Fagen fronted Steely Dan but that was a matter of circumstance. Originally, both he and his partner Walter Becker intended to be pulling the strings from behind the curtains—they'd be the ...