As Fagen revealed in 2006, Rikki was actually a woman named Rikki Ducornet. He met her at a Halloween party at Bard College ...

While recording 'Peg', Steely Dan went through six guitarists and scrapped them all before landing on Jay Graydon and using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mid-70s was the era for rock groups “doing too many things at once”. Yet Steely Dan stood apart from all of them. The musical ...

Walter Becker, one half of iconic duo Steely Dan, has died at age 67. The sad news was shared via Becker’s official site with simply a “f e b . 2 0 1 9 5 0 — s e p t . 0 3 2 0 1 7” caption above two ...

You know the big hits from these California jazz-rock stalwarts, from “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Josie” to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “Hey Nineteen.” Donald Fagen and Walter Becker started ...

In pop music, Steely Dan’s hybrid of pop, jazz and R&B represents an artistic standard few can match. Steely Dan — the musical enterprise of songwriting team Walter Becker and Donald Fagen — hit its ...

Walter Becker (born Walter Carl Becker, 20 February 1950, in Queens, New York) is an American musician and record producer. He is perhaps best known as the guitarist (and sometimes bassist) and half ...

In 1980, after nearly two years in the studio, Steely Dan emerged triumphant with their brilliant seventh studio album, Gaucho. The GRAMMY-winning title would not only mark their final release under ...

The musical partnership of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, otherwise known as Steely Dan, has to be one of the strangest careers in rock history, starting with the fact that this AOR staple has never ...

Steely Dan's "FM (No Static at All)" was created for a comedy-drama of the same name, released in 1978, that became a hit ...

The last time I went to karaoke with friends, the first song anyone picked out wasn’t by Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, or any supposed generational icon for Millennials. No, my 30-year-old friend – let’s call ...