WALTER BECKER – ESOPHAGEAL CANCER

Walter Becker was the co-founder and served as a guitarist of the band Steely Dan and that all began when he and Donald Fagen met together during their college days and the duo played music together with comedian Chevy Chase being the drummer of their trio band which was called Don Fagen Jazz Trio. In 1971, he started founding the Steely Dan along with Donald Fagen and they made their album debut with Can’t Buy a Thrill which was released in 1972 and included 2 singles entitled Reelin’ in the Years and Do It Again.

When the band broke up in 1981, he worked as an album producer of 2 prominent New Wave bands like China Crisis and Fra Lippo Lippi and the notable album he produced was the album Flaunt The Imperfection by China Crisis. To some degree, he is one of the persons behind the success of these 2 bands. In 1993, he reunited with Steely Dan until 2017, the year he passed away due to esophageal cancer.