Stealers Wheel were a Scottish duo whose 1973 hit will forever be associated with that terrifying torture scene in Reservoir Dogs.

It’s impossible now not to think of a this song without seeing a man in a suit waving a cut-throat razor in his hand, dancing around his captive as he considers ways to slice off his ear.

Back in 1973, when Tarantino was still in short trousers and I was in slightly longer ones, it was a hit single for Stealers Wheel, a Scottish duo who were no longer a duo by the time it came out.

Which is why the video features Joe Egan miming to a vocal track recorded by Gerry Rafferty, who had left (but was persuaded to come back when the song was a hit).

Not that I knew that then. Nor did I know, although now it seems blindingly obvious, that the whole song is a pastiche of Bob Dylan – the voice, the paranoid lyrics (about a dreadful music biz cocktail party), everything – to such an extent that apparently some people thought it was actually by Dylan, of whom I knew little at this time; certainly not enough to recognise a parody.

I did not know, either, that the song is produced by the great Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the production and songwriting duo dating back to Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog more than 20 years earlier, and beyond.

The video is strange, filmed in a large, empty building with Egan miming to Rafferty’s vocals at some sort of banquet involving a clown struggling to eat a plastic chicken, a bespectacled bowler-hatted City gent eating spaghetti, and a lavishly dressed woman scoffing cream cakes and grapes.

The guitar solo is played on a guitar played flat with an empty beer bottle used as a slide, and eventually the other band members appear, driving away the strange characters so that Egan can sit down at last for his dinner.