![]() In 1992 director Quentin Tarantino used the track "Stuck in the Middle" in the soundtrack of his debut film Reservoir Dogs, bringing new attention to the band. Both Rafferty and Egan recorded songs which included lyrics referring to the acrimonious history of Stealers Wheel and a Best of Stealers Wheel album was released in 1990. All three albums had particularly striking, slightly surrealist sleeve designs by artist John Byrne.Īfter 1975 the group was hardly known and the two last single releases faded away in the charts. The last album, because of disagreements and managerial problems, was produced by Mentor Williams. By the time the album Right Or Wrong was released in 1975, Stealers Wheel had ceased to exist. With increasing tension between Rafferty and Egan they could not agree on which studio musicians to use on the third album, and with Leiber & Stoller also having business problems, Stealers Wheel disappeared for eighteen months. The album, named after an area of Paisley, only just reached the top 200 in the USA and was a commercial failure. Later in 1973 the single "Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine" (which is different from the version on their albums and all subsequent CDs) had modest chart success and in 1974 the single "Star" reached the top thirty of both the UK and US charts.Ī second album Ferguslie Park was released in 1974, with the duo backed up by nine backing musicians. With so many changes in the band's line-up they officially became a duo, with backing musicians as needed on tour and in the studio. However, Grosvenor, Coombes and Pilnick all left the band. The single reached number six in the USA and number eight in the UK in 1973, and sold over one million copies worldwide, and with the album also selling well, Rafferty was persuaded to return. DeLisle Harper also replaced Tony Williams on tour. ![]() The album was a critical and commercial success reaching number fifty in the US album charts, with their million selling hit single "Stuck in the Middle", coming from the album.īy the time the first album was released Rafferty had left the band to be replaced by Luther Grosvenor, who remained with the band for much of 1973 on tour. ![]() This line-up recorded their eponymous debut album, Stealers Wheel and was produced by the influential American songwriters and producers Leiber & Stoller. ![]() However, that line-up only lasted a few months and by the time the band was signed to A&M Records later that same year, Brown, Noakes and Campbell had been replaced by Paul Pilnick, Tony Williams and Rod Coombes. They were initially joined by Roger Brown, Rab Noakes and Ian Campbell in 1972. In the early 1970s, the band was considered to be the British version of American folk/rock super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Rafferty and Egan first met when they were teenagers in Paisley and they became the core of Stealers Wheel. The band broke up in 1975 and was re-formed in 2008. Stealers Wheel is a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #8 in the UK Singles Chart. The single sold over one million copies, eventually peaking in 1973 at #6 in the U.S. Stuck in the Middle With You was released on Stealers Wheel's 1972 self-titled debut album Stealers Wheel. "Stuck in the Middle With You" or, as originally titled, "Stuck in the Middle", is a song by Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty and performed by their band Stealers Wheel.
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