Walter Becker, Steely Dan co-founder, dies at 67

Walter Becker, Steely Dan co-founder, dies at 67

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Walter Becker, guitarist and songwriter who is famous for her pop hits as well as the harmony of jazz in Steely Dan, teamed with Donald Fagen, died on Sunday at age 67. His death was announced on the official website.

Mr. Becker popularized the group Steely Dan as well as be a concert in the West and the East in Los Angeles and New York City, on the site of the stadium band festival years 1970-1990s. in the era of his era, Steely Dan's music is relaxed and unpretentious, such as listening to pop,

Their songs are popular and infiltrate pop radio in 1970. "It was kind of what we want to do, conquered from the margin," Mr Becker says Time Out New York in 2011. "Finding our place in the middle of based on the fact that we are creatures of margin and alienation."

Steely Dan's lyrics are simple, cryptic and situation sketches depicting characters like addicts, runaways suicide and dirty old men. "You can infer certain things about the life of the people who will be writing the songs. We cannot and do not deny, "Mr. Becker deadpanned in an online interview with the BBC in 2000.


Though Steely famous on her debut album, 1972 's "Can't Buy sensation," it immediately recast himself as team song Becker-Fagen, backed by musicians select a session. During the years 1970 through hitmaking's, Steely and rarely toured, preferring to work in the studio.

Steely Dan — named after a dildo in the novels of William Burroughs's "Naked Lunch" — was dissolved after the year 1980 with album, "Gaucho," though Mr. Fagen and Mr. Becker's stay in contact.

In 1993, Mr. Fagen and Mr. Becker resurfaced as Steely Dan, leads a band that would Tour frequently both to the year 2017. Steely Dan's song and record of the process remain seriously; another studio album released only two, "two against nature" year 2000 (which won a Grammy as Album of the Year) and "everything must go" in 2003. But unlike the incarnation year of 1970 's, Steely and growing stage.

In a statement released Sunday, Mr. Fagen writes that Mr. Becker "is cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like many children of the family fractured, he got creative talent mimicry, read the hidden folk psychology and changing what he saw into a cheery, sharp art. "

Walter Becker was born in Forest Hills, Queens, on February 20, 1950, and studied saxophone and guitar in teenager. Information about casualties was not immediately available.

He met with Mr. Fagen in 1967 when they were still students at Bard College, where they'll be sardonically remember on Steely Dan's "my old school."
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