Walter Becker of Steely Dan was born 72 years ago today. Play some of these covers in his honor
were hipsters. As frontman Donald Fagen explained in his 2013 book,, he and Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker grew up as aficionados of pre-rock ’n roll cool, studying jazz and Beat Generation writers.
During the band’s original 1970s run, they were fixtures in thecritics’ polls even as their music gradually became smoother, slicker, and more popular. “We were kind of on the cusp of the counterculture and whatever happened afterwards,” Fagen toldOver the past half-century, Steely Dan have been heroes and villains in equal measure — subversive iconoclasts to some, banal elevator music hacks to others.
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