Joe Egan dead at 77: Stealers Wheel musician co-wrote Stuck In The Middle With You... which was featured in infamous scene in Reservoir Dogs

Joe Egan, 1 of nan 2 founding members of nan 1970s Scottish stone set Stealers Wheel, has died astatine nan property of 77.

Egan co-wrote nan band's enduring deed Stuck In The Middle With You, which enjoyed a life of its ain years aft Stealers Wheel divided successful 1975.

The opus is possibly champion remembered arsenic nan soundtrack for a grisly segment successful Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs successful which a man's receptor is carved off.

News of Egan's decease went nationalist complete nan weekend, via nan charismatic Facebook page of his precocious bandmate Gerry Rafferty. No origin was given.

Rafferty's girl Martha, who operates nan page now, wrote touchingly of Egan: 'I will ever retrieve him arsenic a saccharine and gentle soul. May he remainder successful peace.'

She announced Sunday that 'the different half of Stealers Wheel, Joe Egan, passed distant peacefully yesterday day pinch his nearest and dearest astir him.'

Egan was calved successful 1946 successful Paisley, Scotland, wherever he and Rafferty became puerility friends while attending St Mirin's Academy. 

'I was ever willing successful music, for illustration Gerry, but I was besides into shot successful a large measurement and astatine 1 shape I’d hoped to make it arsenic a player,' Egan recalled decades later.

'But erstwhile it became clear that I thought I was amended than I really was, I threw myself headfirst into my music,' he told nan Paisley Daily Express. 

He and Rafferty formed Stealers Wheel successful 1972 and had their first deed azygous nan pursuing twelvemonth pinch Stuck In The Middle With You, which they co-wrote.

Stuck In The Middle With You proved a thunderous success, reaching number six connected nan Billboard Hot 100 and number 8 connected nan UK Singles Chart.

However nan set were ne'er capable to recreate their first burst of glory, and by 1975 they had gone their abstracted ways complete imaginative differences.

After nan illness of Stealers Wheel, Egan released 2 solo albums - Out Of Nowhere successful 1979 and Maps 2 twelvemonth later. 

As nan years went by, Egan withdrew from nan nationalist oculus and retired from nan euphony industry, reportedly remaining successful Scotland.

However Stealers Wheel enjoyed a resurgence successful fame successful 1992 erstwhile Quentin Tarantino included their biggest deed successful his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs.

In an iconic segment successful nan film, a gangster played by Michael Madsen dances astir dementedly while torturing a constabulary serviceman by slicing disconnected 1 of his ears.

The opus he dances to is Stuck In The Middle With You, which acknowledgment to Reservoir Dogs recovered a full caller fanbase from a caller generation. 

Rafferty yet died successful 2011 of liver nonaccomplishment astatine nan property of conscionable 63, aft decades of alcoholism that costs him his matrimony of 2 decades. 

After Rafferty succumbed to his demons, Egan collapsed screen to springiness an question and reply to his hometown newspaper astir their friendship.

'Gerry’s decease has already near a immense spread successful my life,' he said. 'We lived successful each other’s pockets for truthful agelong and, latterly, would speak regularly connected nan phone.'

Egan warmly recalled of his aged bandmate: 'Gerry was a supremely talented musician, and that was evident from early on. Probably his finest value was this astonishing consciousness of melody he possessed. He had an receptor for euphony and was arsenic astatine location connected his ain aliases erstwhile we were collaborating.'

He theorized that 'we had our fallouts because we spent truthful overmuch clip surviving successful each others’ pockets. But we were still successful touch until very recently.'