Steely Dan自1972年组团至今，一直是以Donald Fagen和Walter Becker二人为主要搭档，团名取自美国文学大诗人William Burroughs的经典作品 - 裸体午餐。自72年的首张专辑 Can't Buy A Trill 获得滚石杂志五颗星高评推荐后，Steely Dan便成为乐评界的宠儿。而Donald Fagen和Walter Becker也以轻松的语调刻划美国社会的众生百态。在慵懒摇摆的爵士风格与铜管乐器编制下，Steely Dan可说是在七零年代里，少数几个在乐评和排行上都很出众的一个团体。 Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974 Becker and Fagen retired from live performances to become a studio-only band, opting to record with a revolving cast of session musicians. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies".[6] Becker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians, and began recording albums. Their first, Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, blues,[7] and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success through seven studio albums, peaking with their top-selling album Aja, released in 1977.[7] After Steely Dan disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen worked sporadically on solo projects through the 1980s, though a cult following[7] remained devoted to the group's work. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan has toured steadily and released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Their final album of new studio material was 2003's Everything Must Go, though the band has continued to release compilations, box sets, and live albums on a regular basis. After Becker's death in 2017, Fagen reluctantly continued the group with himself as the sole official member. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.