They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade, Fagen and Becker remained largely inactive in the music world. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of moderately successful singles and albums. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric" lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, and crime.The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho - an album that contains only seven songs. The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop.Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies." Steely Dan is an American rock band its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.
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