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brianr:
Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died aged 82,
Front-Ranger:
May he rest in peace. :'(
Jeff Wrangler:
Leonard Cohen has died, aged 82.
And I just read the profile of him in The New Yorker. Until I read that, I knew nothing about him except that he wrote the song Hallelujah.
Jeff Wrangler:
There was a salute to Leonard Cohen on the Today show this morning. It featured tweets from two Justins (Trudeau and Timberlake), and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
CellarDweller:
Walter Becker, Steely Dan Co-Founder, Dead at 67
By Daniel Kreps
Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67.
Becker's official site announced the death; no cause of death or other details were provided.
"Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967," Donald Fagen wrote in a tribute to Becker. "He was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny."
Becker missed Steely Dan's Classic East and West concerts in July as he recovered from an unspecified ailment. "Walter's recovering from a procedure and hopefully he'll be fine very soon," Fagen told Billboard at the time. Becker's doctor advised the guitarist not to leave his Maui home for the performances.
Becker and Fagen first became collaborators when they were both students at New York's Bard College. After working as songwriters (Barbra Streisand's "I Mean to Shine") and members of Jay and the Americans' backing band, the duo moved to California in the early Seventies to form Steely Dan – named after a sex toy in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch – alongside guitarists Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Denny Dias, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956
In their time together, Steely Dan put 10 singles into the Billboard Top 40 chart.
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" #4
"Do It Again" #6
"Hey Nineteen" #10
"Reeling in the Years" #11
"Peg" #11
"Deacon Blues" #19
"Time Out of Mind" #22
"FM (No Static at All)" #22
"Josie" #26
"Black Friday" #37
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