Joe Egan Irish name: Seosamh MacAodhagain (born Joseph Egan, 18 October 1946, Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish singer and songwriter.
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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.[1] After two unsuccessful singles their song "Stuck in the Middle With You", which he had co-written with Rafferty, became a hit in 1973 and reached the Top Ten of both the UK Singles Chart and the US 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 Out of Nowhere, but this did not occur until 1979 as he and Rafferty were contractually obliged not to release any recordings for three years, when he registered a minor hit with his first single release "Back On The Road". That same year he released a second single titled "Out Of Nowhere".
1981 saw the release of his second album, Map, which was not a critical or commercial success, and subsequently no singles were released in support of it. Since then he has not released any new recordings and has left the music industry.
As of 2005, Egan lives in Renfrewshire and runs a publishing company from his home.