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"Space Cowboy", a song by the Steve Miller Band from the 1969 album Brave New World "The Joker", a 1973 song by the Steve Miller Band, ...
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, ... (No. 22, 1969) featured the songs "Space Cowboy" and "My Dark Hour". Paul McCartney, ...
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.
On the 50th anniversary of “The Joker,” the award-winning musician takes a walk down memory lane.
The Steve Miller Band co-headlined a major stadium tour with the Eagles in 1978. The Steve Miller Band's ongoing popularity has been notable. In 1978, Greatest Hits 1974–78 was released, featuring the big hits from his two most popular albums, Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams along with the title track from The Joker. This popularity also ...
Originally called the Steve Miller Blues Band, the group first made its mark as a psychedelic blues rock band in San Francisco. They went through a fallow period commercially in the early seventies before coming back with the hit album The Joker and the song of the same name in late 1973, followed by the band's two most successful studio albums ...
It is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the nonce word "pompatus". 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.
"The Letter" also included another original coinage, "pismotality". Presumably in homage to the Medallions' song, Steve Miller used the nonce words "epismetology" and "pompatus" in the lyrics of two of his other songs, "Enter Maurice" and "The Conversation", one of which is, like "The Letter", in spoken-word style.