Steve Miller To Rock Colorado Celebrating 50 Years Of 'The Joker'

Legendary rocker Steve Miller is celebrating the 50th anniversary of "The Joker" being one his biggest hits, and he's coming to Colorado.

One show will be one of the biggest shows to hit the newly renamed Blue Arena in Loveland; while the other will be at the newly opened Sunset Amphitheatre.

Both venues will be filled with thousands of fans signing along to his hits.

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Of the 100 biggest songs of 1974, Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" lands at #40. Here we are, 50 years later, and the song is still as loved as it was back then.

Miller's "Greatest Hits 1974-78" album received the RIAA Diamond Award with sales of more than fifteen million copies. It is among the 25 best-selling albums of all time. If you didn't own that album yourself, you knew some who did.

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