Lost RADIO Gem: "Star" - Stealers Wheel (1974)
"So they've made you a star Now your head's in a cloud." --> Stealers Wheel <-- Lost "Radio" Gem :... a single that may have charted, but deserved better. Stealers Wheel were a talented Scottish singer/songwriting duo of Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan ...along with a swinging door of various backing musicians that never hung around long enough to get any bang on their shang-a-langs. (Egos. Stubbornness. Poor management. All figured into the bands destruction. You can look it up.) But this is about the music. Admittedly... Stealers Wheel ...will forever be remembered for their one-hit wonder...a Dylanesque top-ten mega-hit... "Stuck In The Middle With You" (1973) off their debut album. Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan But it's their follow-up album... "Fergusie Park" (1974) that appears to have aged the best. The classic folk-rock sound is solid with tight vocals blending nicely. Well-written songs (especially ...