L-R: Jim Hodder, David Palmer, Denny Dias, Donald Fagen, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, and Walter Becker of Steely Dan in 1972. But Steely Dan has not performed since 2024, and Fagen’s stepdaughter, Amy Helm, characterized him as “retired” in an interview earlier this year. It offers the fewest musical epiphanies of any Steely Dan album, though there are still pleasures like Fagen’s uncharacteristically skronky synth solo on “Lunch with Gina.” Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly (1982)As Becker stepped back from music to deal with addictions and legal issues, Steely Dan quietly disbanded and Fagen made a solo album. “Haitian Divorce” became Steely Dan’s biggest chart hit in the U.K., but remains an unheralded side 2 gem in America.