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The Steve Miller Band recorded it for their album Sailor (1968). In an album review for AllMusic , Amy Hanson commented: [Miller's Sailor ] is the LP that introduced many to the Johnny "Guitar" Watson classic "Gangster of Love", a song that would become almost wholly Miller's own, giving the fans an alter ego to caress long before "The Joker ...
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]
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 .
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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 ...
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group had a string of mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums.
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]
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.