Steely Dan's Walter Becker dies aged 67

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Another great musician gone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41140441

Walter Becker, co-founder and guitarist for the US band Steely Dan, has died aged 67, an announcement on his website said.
No cause of death or other details were given.
Becker missed the band's July concerts to recover from an unspecified condition, band mate Donald Fagen said at the time.
The jazz-rock group has sold more than 40m albums and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
"Walter's recovering from a procedure and hopefully he'll be fine very soon," Fagen told Billboard magazine earlier this month.
In a statement, he said his band mate was "smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter.
"He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny," he said.
"I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band."
Becker and Fagen began working on music together as students in New York.
In the early 1970s they moved to California to set up the band with guitarists Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer.
Steely Dan - named after a sex toy in the book Naked Lunch by William Burroughs - released its first album Can't Buy a Thrill in 1972....

R.I.P.

 

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Like countless others another Beatles inspired artist who wasn't interested in rock at all until he heard No Reply.

If anybody wonders how the group got their name look up - Steely Dan 111 from Yokohama.