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The first line of the lyrics is a reference to the song "Space Cowboy" from Miller's Brave New World album. The following lines refer to two other songs: "Gangster of Love" from Sailor and "Enter Maurice" from Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden.
Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice, 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love. Each line references a track on a previous Miller album: "Space Cowboy" on Brave New World (1969); "Gangster of Love" on Sailor (1968); and "Enter Maurice" on Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden (1972), which includes the lines: [1]
Brave New World is the third studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band, released in June 1969.It is the band's first album following the departure of founding members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman, with Ben Sidran replacing Peterman on keyboards.
Billboard described "Rock'n Me" as a "catchy and highly humorous midtempo rocker," saying that the melody sounds like the Beach Boys and the Eagles in places. [13] Cash Box said that it "draws from the best of rock ’n' roll over the last ten years" and has "hook-filled guitar lines."
Miller established his persona of the "Gangster of Love" (from Sailor) [8] and the "Space Cowboy" (from Brave New World), which were reused in later works. In 1972, Miller recorded the album Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden, in which a third persona, "Maurice", was introduced in the tune "Enter Maurice".
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Steve Miller recorded Watson's "Gangster of Love" on his 1968 album Sailor. [27] [28] Miller then made a reference to his song title in his 1969 song "Space Cowboy" ("And you know that I'm a gangster of love") from his 1969 album, Brave New World. [29] Miller's 1973 hit song "The Joker" included the lyric "Some call me the gangster of love". [30]
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