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Jazz keyboardist Jim Beard, who played with Steely Dan for more than a decade, has died. The rock band confirmed Beard’s death on its website.
March 6, 2024
Music
Walter Becker wasn’t easily impressed.
Sept. 3, 2017
Steely Dan’s songs of monied decadence, druggy disconnection and self-destructive escapism seemed satirically extreme way back when. Now they just seem prophetic.
May 4, 2023
The Songwriters Hall of Fame will also celebrate the careers of 2024 inductees Hillary Lindsey and Dean Pitchford during its New York City ceremony in June.
Jan. 17, 2024
Heaven by way of ‘Aja’
Aug. 24, 2009
Walter Becker, co-founder with Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, died Sunday at age 67.
In returning Steely Dan to the pop music world after a two-decade intermission, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have transformed the group from a shrouded enigma into a fan-friendly, interactive entity--relatively speaking, anyway.
March 11, 2000
“Hi there, kids — we’re Steely Dan,” said Donald Fagen from the stage of Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre.
April 11, 2015
‘I can’t pass the buck. I’ll take the blame for the screwup,’ Walter Becker says after Aimee Mann speculates sexism killed her gig with Steely Dan.
March 17, 2022
“Here’s a tune from one of those albums in the mid-’70s,” said Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, introducing the song “Night by Night” on Tuesday at the Universal Amphitheatre.
June 15, 2000