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“The Joker” is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album The Joker. The song is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the neologism “pompatus”. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. It draws heavy influence from the Allen Toussaint’s song Soul Sister featured on his 1972 album Life, Love and Faith. More than 16 years later, in September 1990, it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks after being used in a Levi’s television advertisement, thus holding the record for the longest gap between transatlantic chart-toppers. This reissue of “The Joker” also topped the Irish Singles Chart, the New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart, the Dutch Nationale Top 100 and the Dutch Top 40. The song is sometimes misidentified by the title... Read on...