{"id":30263,"date":"2024-09-03T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-3-2017-steely-dan-co-founder-walter-becker-died\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:04:15","slug":"on-this-day-sept-3-2017-steely-dan-co-founder-walter-becker-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-3-2017-steely-dan-co-founder-walter-becker-died\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 3, 2017: Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-03\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 3, 2017 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Walter Becker<\/strong> died at the age of 67, just months after he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of esophageal cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Becker, born in Queens, New York, was the guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter for the group, which he co-founded in 1971 with <strong>Donald Fagen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band released nine studio albums over the course of their career, including such classics as <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Pretzel Logic<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Aja<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Gaucho<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and 2000\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Two Against Nature<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which won four Grammys, including Album of the Year. They released their final studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Everything Must Go<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Steely Dan was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and Becker and Fagen were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In October 2018 a ceremony was held naming a street in Forest Hills, Queens, Walter Becker Way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 3, 2017 &#8230; Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker died at the age of 67, just months after he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of esophageal cancer. Becker, born in Queens, New York, was the guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter for the group, which he co-founded<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-3-2017-steely-dan-co-founder-walter-becker-died\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}