Stealers Wheel co-founder Joe Egan dies aged 77
Joe Egan, who co-founded and co-fronted the Scottish band Stealers Wheel with Gerry Rafferty, has died aged 77.
The information was confirmed on the Fb web page of the late Rafferty, who died in 2011. His daughter Martha, who runs the official web page, shared a sequence of photos of Rafferty and Egan collectively alongside her message.
“Very unhappy information that the opposite half of Stealers Wheel, Joe Egan, handed away peacefully yesterday afternoon together with his nearest and dearest round him,” she stated. “I’ll all the time bear in mind him as a candy and delicate soul. Might he relaxation in peace.”
Very unhappy information that the opposite half of Stealers Wheel, Joe Egan, handed away peacefully yesterday afternoon together with his…
Posted by Gerry Rafferty on Sunday, July 7, 2024
The people rock band have been greatest identified for his or her 1973 debut single, ‘Caught In The Center With You’, which reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 6 on the US Billboard Sizzling 100. Its preliminary chart success was amplified many years later when it featured in a pivotal scene in Quentin Tarantino‘s 1992 movie Reservoir Canines.
Reflecting on the track’s inclusion within the movie, Tarantino beforehand instructed Rolling Stone: “That was a kind of issues the place I believed [the song] would work very well, and [during] auditions, I instructed the actors that I needed them to do the torture scene, and I’m gonna use ‘Caught within the Center With You’, however they may decide something they needed, they didn’t have to make use of that track.
“And a few folks picked one other one, however virtually everybody got here in with ‘Caught within the Center With You’, and so they have been saying that they tried to provide you with one thing else, however that’s the one. The primary time any individual really did the torture scene to that track, the man didn’t also have a nice audition, nevertheless it was like watching the film. I used to be considering, ‘Oh my God, that is gonna be superior!’”
Joe Egan has handed away. The wheel has left the stealer. His expertise was immense and it shone superbly, alas, all too briefly. His songs underneath the ‘Stealers Wheel’ moniker meant as a lot to me as Gerry’s. They nonetheless do. Here is a snippet of 1 they wrote collectively. R.I.P. Joe xx pic.twitter.com/E1Culr65BN
— Thomas Walsh (@ThomasWalsh1) July 7, 2024
RIP Joe Egan. Hell of a voice, hell of a songwriter, one other of Paisley’s most interesting shuffled off. https://t.co/FfrFSIm0Vp
— Martin Heron (@GizmoDelTurbo) July 7, 2024
A fond farewell to Joe Egan, who died yesterday. The ‘different half’ of Paisley’s Stealers Wheel, alongside Gerry Rafferty. pic.twitter.com/8lQsGqndmY
— BoomRadioUK (@BoomRadioUK) July 7, 2024
RIP, Joe Egan. This was all the time my favorite composition of his: the way in which that refrain melody tumbles is unreasonably engaging.https://t.co/t5O8Tkyun4
— Marco Rossi (@marcosquawks) July 7, 2024
Stealers Wheel disbanded in 1975, with Egan and Raffety each occurring to pursue solo ventures. Egan launched his debut album, ‘Out of Nowhere’, in 1979, which was adopted by ‘Map’ in 1981.