Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Eventually, the other band members appear, driving off the strange characters so that Egan can sit down at last. The guitar solo is played on a guitar played flat with an empty beer bottle used as a slide. The clown, who has difficulty eating a plastic chicken, continually squeezes Egan out whenever he tries to take food from the table.
These include an actual clown, a bespectacled bowler-hatted gent devouring spaghetti and a lavishly dressed woman eating cream cakes and grapes. Their performance is intercut with shots of Egan, miming to a vocal track by Rafferty (who had by then left the band), at a small banquet table with a number of garishly dressed and made-up supper guests. The video portrays the band performing in a corner of a large, empty building. The band appeared playing the song on BBC's Top of the Pops on. The single sold over one million copies, eventually peaking at No. The band was surprised by the single's chart success. Rafferty's lyrics are a dismissive tale of a music industry cocktail party written and performed as a parody of Bob Dylan's paranoia (the vocal impression, subject, and styling were so similar, listeners have wrongly attributed the song to Dylan since its release). It was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Gerry Rafferty provided the lead vocals, with Joe Egan singing harmony. "Stuck in the Middle with You" was released on Stealers Wheel's 1972 eponymous debut album.
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