Stealers Wheel - Star (1974)

Stealers Wheel - Star (1974)

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Music

Tags:

• Stealers
• Wheel
• Star
• (1974)
• Krasplaat

[fraidy2008]

I can't believe how great this song is...I'm consistently shocked at how much I don't know---about anything.

[tunefreek27]

This is really beautiful...my favorite Stealer's Wheel song. They should have been huge.

[pclervaux]

This is not the live track for this song. To see it how it was actually performed, check out the other version on you tube that starts with applause. Nobody was belching. He did a "B-gaw" to Joe's "Eee!"

[NYerintransit]

@timjonesart Yeah Rafferty was no charmer.

[burlingtonbill1]

I remember HEARING this on FM IN 1974, buying the album, and wondering the same thing....WHY wasn't it a bigger "hit" ? In the 70's,  AM and FM (and the music industry itself) really started fracturing big-time.

My all-time fave Beach Boys started it in the 60's by self-producing (first Murry, then Brian), starting their own record company (Brother) and by songs like Little Girl I Once Knew (long silent pause) and Good Vibrations "too LONG" for airplay. It became harder to satisfy both camps.

[timjonesart]

1:41 Rafferty belches into the mic! Throughout, he shows his disdain for the lip-sync proceedings, intentionally screwing up the timing of his guitar, etc... Pretty funny. I don't think he was ever into the whole rock-star bit.

[Krzyszczynski]

@torridon3 : if it's at 1.51 you mean - then actually it's Joe.

[MrSlimjimk]

It wasn't being stars that got all those 70's rockers depressed, it was alll that white stuff they stuffed up their nostrils. lovely song though...

[59jimmyb]

still sounds as good today as when originally released...god bless you gerry..rip

[goddamnbouy]

lead singer looks like he could be Joshua Jackson father.

[ejslurb2007]

Of course this should have been a much bigger hit.  Maybe I'll cover it and take care of all that (LOL)!