Take, for example, "Jet Airliner," "Fly Like an Eagle," "The Joker," and "Take the Money and Run." But, it was "Abracadabra," released in May of 1982, that almost didn't make the band's impressive ...

After a long career of making regulation-issue rock albums, with some dips into psychedelic music, Steve Miller leaned willfully into the pop world with his 1982 album Abracadabra. "You have to be ...