History Formative and early years (1967–1972) īecker and Fagen met in 1967 at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 15 on its list of the 20 greatest duos of all time.
82 on their list of the 100 Greatest Musical Artists of All Time. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001. After Becker's death in 2017, Fagen reluctantly continued the group with himself as the sole official member. Their final album of new studio material was 2003's Everything Must Go, though the band has continued to release compilations, box sets, and live albums on a regular basis. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan has toured steadily and released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen worked sporadically on solo projects through the 1980s, though a cult following remained devoted to the group's work. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success through seven studio albums, peaking with their top-selling album Aja, released in 1977. Their first album, Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, blues, and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians, and began recording albums. īecker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies". Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974 Becker and Fagen retired from live performances to become a studio-only band, opting to record with a revolving cast of session musicians. Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).
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