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Key facts
- Origin
- Annandale-on-Hudson, New York , U.S.
- Genres
- Jazz rock yacht rock soft rock pop jazz fusion
- Works
- Discography
- Years active
- 1971–1981 1993–2026
- Labels
- ABC MCA Giant Reprise Warner Bros.
- Spinoffs
- The Dukes of September
- Past members
- Donald Fagen Walter Becker Jeff Baxter Denny Dias Jim Hodder David Palmer Royce Jones see List of Steely Dan members
- Website
- steelydan .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- steelydan.com
- Image
- Steely Dan - Donald Fagen - Luzern 2007.jpg
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Steely Dan was an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Originally having a traditional band lineup, Becker and Fagen chose to stop performing live by the end of 1974 and continued Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, using a revolving cast of session musicians. Rolling Stone magazine named them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies".
Becker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians and began recording music. Their debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, and blues with sophisticated studio production and cryptic, irony-infused lyrics. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success with seven studio albums, peaking with their top-selling album Aja, released in 1977.
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