Stealers Wheel

Stealers Wheel was a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in 1972 in Paisley, Scotland, by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty. Their best-known hit is "Stuck in the Middle with You". The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed briefly in 2008. Egan and Rafferty met as teenagers in Paisley, and became the core of Stealers Wheel. They were initially joined by Roger Brown, Rab Noakes and Ian Campbell in 1972. By the time the band was signed to A&M Records later that year, Brown, Noakes and Campbell had been replaced by Paul Pilnick, Tony Williams and Rod Coombes.

The original line-up recorded Stealers Wheel (October 1972), produced by American songwriters and producers Leiber & Stoller, and was a critical and commercial success, reaching No. 50 in the US Billboard 200 album chart, with their hit single "Stuck in the Middle with You" coming from the album. On 7 November 1972 the band appeared on BBC 2's The Old Grey Whistle Test, performing "I Get By" and "Late Again".

Links to Peel
Peel had admired Gerry Rafferty's songwriting during the singer's time with the Humblebums and liked Rafferty's new band enough to have them do five sessions for his shows, between 1972 and 1975. The band's early line-up included Rab Noakes, a Peel session artist in his own right and later a radio producer.

They broke up after their final Peel session, but, unlike much of the music he featured on his early 1970s shows, their records continued to appeal to him and he revisited them from time to time lin later years. The last known play of a Stealers Wheel track on a Peel show was in 2002. tbc

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