Steely Dan tribute band at Pacific Road Arts Centre

Sep 16 2009 by Lorna Hughes, Birkenhead News

NEARLY Dan are celebrating the music of Steely Dan at Pacific Road Arts Centre next week.

The ten-strong band are promising all the Steely Dan favourites in a two-hour show.

Steely’s Donald Fagan and Walter Becker created arguably some of the most influential music of the late 1970s, producing hits like Reelin’ in the Years, Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, Deacon Blues and Babylon Sisters.

Between 1972 and 1980 the jazz-rock band had seven platinum albums.

They reunited in the early 1990s and toured throughout the decade, releasing multi-Grammy winner Two Against Nature in 2000 and Everything Must Go in 2003.

Fagan and Becker were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.

Nearly Dan formed in 1997 and have toured constantly for 10 years, winning critical acclaim for their performances in the UK and Europe.

A spokesman for the band said they were “less tribute and more homage”.

He said: “Nearly Dan are saviours to the legions of Dan fans desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagan and Walter Becker when chances to hear the real thing are so uncommon.