release - 1972
album art - Mike Doud
John 'Patrick' Byrne
cover front
The front is an original painting by John 'Patrick' Byrne. It portrays the band members as half a man and half an animal. A kind of Zoo parade which works simultaneously funny but also endearing. Closer examination will reveal the words 'Stealers Wheel' carefully embedded several times in the design of the front, in addition to the large lettering in the bottom left-hand corner.
cover back
The back depicts the bandmembers again but now seperated. Further; the songtitles of both sides and some more trivia of the album. The whole is framed by a landscape with flowers, which merge into two lines towards some sort of cupido
artist
Stealers Wheel are a British folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty. Their well-known hits are Stuck in the Middle with You and Late Again.
They were initially joined by Roger Brown, Rab Noakes and Ian Campbell in 1972. However, that line-up only lasted a few months and by the time the band was signed to A&M Records later that same year, Brown, Noakes and Campbell had been replaced by Paul Pilnick, Tony Williams and Rod Coombes. Their first album was Stealers Wheel (1972), their second Ferguslie Park (1974) and third Right Or Wrong (1975). All three albums had sleeve designs by artist John Byrne.
The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed without Egan or Rafferty in 2008
also in gallery
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