Joe Egan Irish name: Seosamh MacAodhagain (born Joseph Egan, 18 October 1946, in Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish singer and songwriter.
In the 1960s Egan, together with former St Mirin's Academy school mate Gerry Rafferty, played in various smaller British bands, for example The Sensors and The Mavericks, and worked as a session musician. In 1972 he and Rafferty founded the folk / rock band Stealers Wheel. After two unsuccessful singles the track "Stuck in the Middle With You", which he had co-written with Rafferty, surprisingly became a hit in 1973 and reached the Top Ten of both the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Subsequently the band had a few smaller successes, amongst others with the Egan penned song "Star", but stagnating sales figures and artistic differences finally led to the band's break-up in 1975. Egan eventually recorded his solo debut album Back On The Road, but this did not occur until 1979 as he and Rafferty were contractually obliged not to release any recordings for three years. "Stuck in the Middle With You" is a song by Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty and performed by their band Stealers Wheel. The song was.