Originally this band that was related to its contemporaries Crosby Stills and Nash was founded at the beginning of that same year by the charismatic composer Gerry Rafferty and the keyboardist Joe Egan who already knew each other since they were young and would be the cornerstone of the group, and, after some changes in the line-up of the band, they recruited Paul Pilnick as guitarist, Tony Williams as bassist and Rod Coombes as drumsticks and signed to A&M Records.
In 1972 they would give life to their best and most memorable album titled the band with the same name.
That album contains the famous "Stuck in the Middle with You", which reached number 6 on the US Billboard and 8 on the European "charts", becoming an instant classic and making the album on which it appeared stay among the 50 best albums of that 1972 and the great ballad that closed the album "You put Something Better Inside of Me", a sweet serenade fought by the velvety and nasal voice of Rafferty and the keyboards of Egan that has the status of being a of the greatest ballads of the 70s ...
Two years later they would repeat the formula of that folk rock with beautiful catchy melodies, with two albums but that were very far from this namesake, no longer the success that he enjoyed: "Ferguslie Park", with which he had some other repercussion thanks to the "single" "Star", another ballad to remember the band, and the best, "Right Or Wrong", with which they experimented towards more rock paths, but the disputes in the formation, which were continuous changes, and the deviation of the public towards other musical trends and other bands would end with the disappearance of the Stealers Wheel in 1975.
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