Steely Dan was an American rock band formed in 1971 in Annandale‑on‑Hudson, New York, by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). The group began with a traditional band lineup, but by the end of 1974 Becker and Fagen chose to stop performing live and continued Steely Dan as a studio‑only duo, working with a rotating cast of session musicians. Rolling Stone described them as “the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies”. Becker and Fagen had played together in various bands while studying at Bard College in Annandale‑on‑Hudson. They later moved to Los Angeles, assembled a group of musicians and began recording. Their debut album, Can’t Buy a Thrill (1972), set the tone for their career, blending rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B and blues with sophisticated studio production and cryptic, irony‑laden lyrics. The band achieved both critical and commercial success across seven studio albums, reaching a peak with their best‑selling 1977 release Aja. Steely Dan disbanded in 1981. Throughout the 1980s, Becker and Fagen worked intermittently on solo projects, while the band maintained a devoted cult following. They reunited in 1993, toured extensively and released two new studio albums. The first of these, Two Against Nature (2000), won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 43rd Grammy Awards.
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