"The Joker" is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album The Joker, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974.The song is sometimes misidentified by the title "Space Cowboy" because of the first line of the lyrics, which actually refer to an earlier song by that title from Miller's Brave New World album. The following lines refer to two other earlier songs, "Gangster of Love" from Sailor, and "Enter Maurice" from Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden.
Jamaican reggae deejay Shaggy aka “Mr Boombastic”, who is especially notable for his distinctive sub-baritone voice, later built his 2001 worldwide number-one hit single "Angel" around a sample of “The Joker”. Shaggy’s album Hot Shot, from which the cut came, would also hit number one on the Billboard 200, just like The Joker did in 1974, when Shaggy would have been just 6 years old.
Catch the Bandits in space tomorrow night at Tuck Shop, from 8.30 pm.
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