Steve Miller Band, The Joker, and the "pompatus" of love
Behind The Song: Classic Rock Chronicles28 Aug 2024

Steve Miller Band, The Joker, and the "pompatus" of love

It’s the song that put the word “pompatus” into our collective consciousness, a made-up word that was actually a mishearing of ANOTHER made up word. But it sounds great in “The Joker,” proving once again that in rock and roll, if it sounds good no one will bat an eyelash to question it. In fact, “The Joker” was the Steve Miller Band’s first number one hit on the Billboard singles chart, and we’ve been singing along to it since 1973. Let’s get into the story of this ever-popular song in this episode of the Behind The Song podcast.


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