Another rock great gone. Walter Becker, cofounder of the band Steely Dan, died at age 67 on Sunday, September 3, his website announced. No details about his death were given.
Celebrity Deaths in 2017: Stars We’ve Lost The band’s other cofounder, Donald Fagen, released a remembrance of his longtime friend after news of Becker’s death broke. “Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967,” the vocalist began. “We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.”
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