THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
524-Stealers Wheel-Stuck In The Middle With You.
1973-Number 8 single.
Best Bit-At 1.03.It’s the dogs..
Stealers Wheel were a Scottish Folk/Rock band formed in 1972 by Joe Egan and the late Gerry Rafferty,they split in 1975 and briefly reformed in 2008.
Stuck In The Middle With You was produced by the legendary song writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller,(see best songs 954.)
The song refers to people in the music industry,the management and executives of record labels,(the clown and the jokers.)
The band had to reluctantly do a promotion in a fancy London restaurant and the lyrics tell the story of them trying to get out of the entire thing,which they detested.
In 1992 the song was brought to the attention of a whole new generation when Quentin Tarantino chose to use it in the scene which the character of Mr Blonde taunts and tortures a policeman in the film Reservoir Dogs.
‘Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right here I am.’
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