Stealers Wheel | ||||
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Released | 17 November 1972 | |||
Recorded | Apple Studio, London | |||
Genre | [citation needed] | |||
Length | 34:12 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | |||
Stealers Wheel chronology | ||||
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Singles from Stealers Wheel | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B[2] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Stealers Wheel is the debut studio album by Scottish folk rock band Stealers Wheel.[4] It was released on 17 November 1972 by A&M Records. The album 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.
The cover painting is by John Patrick Byrne. The words "Stealers Wheel" are embedded ten times in the design, in addition to the large lettering in the bottom left-hand corner (eleven in total). The album has each member of the band's heads on different animals (clockwise from top left: Rod Coombes as a zebra, Paul Pilnick as a bird, Tony Williams as a rabbit, Joe Egan as a lion, and Gerry Rafferty as a tiger).