Gerry Rafferty

Another sad death on the same day as Mick Karn's premature passing.
Rafferty's music was a thousand miles away from the mostly post-punk stuff we were listening to at the end of the 70's, although 1978's Baker Street was an undoubtable classic and I even bought the 7" of Night Owl in 1979 which is wonderfully melancholy MOR ditty with some nifty guitar playing. I'm sure he wrote a lot of good songs besides those.


Some things I didn't know about Gerry Rafferty:
1. he was Scottish 2. his father was an alcoholic 3. he married a half-Italian 4. he was reluctant to play live 5. he was an alcoholic 6. he released an album in 2009.
source: wikipedia

Cheers Gerry.

Here's another one of his I've always quite liked: