Steve Miller
Jim Irvin, Word, The, May 2008
EVERYBODY KNOWS a Steve Miller song, yet he's hardly a household name. For every hit of his you can whistle – 'The Joker', 'Fly Like An Eagle', 'Abracadabra' and a dozen others – can you conjure one biographical fact? Me neither.
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