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Title: Gerry Rafferty obituary
Post by: bijou on January 04, 2011, 01:40:33 PM

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The Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, who has died aged 63 after a long illness, wrote the multimillion-selling hit Baker Street, which more than 30 years after its 1978 release still netted him an annual £80,000. At the end of the 1970s he did his best work, a series of richly resonant albums that gave no hint of their creator's inner troubles.

Rafferty was born in Paisley, near Glasgow, an unwanted third son. His father, Joseph, was an Irish-born miner. His mother, Mary Skeffington, whose name would provide a Rafferty song title, dragged young Gerry round the streets on Saturday nights so that they would not be at home when his father came back drunk. They would wait outside, in all weathers, until he had fallen asleep, to avoid a beating. "If it wasn't for you, I'd leave," Mary told Gerry. Joseph died in 1963, when Gerry was 16. ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/04/gerry-rafferty-obituary?CMP=twt_fd

[youtube=425,350]v1Y_mUragAo[/youtube]

RIP Gerry.

Title: Re: Gerry Rafferty obituary
Post by: Eupher on January 04, 2011, 02:52:14 PM

Sad news - Baker Street was a great song, and very well received.

And somehow, I don't think that Gerry made Sparky's 2011 Dead Pool.

RIP, Gerry. The demons are gone now.

Title: Re: Gerry Rafferty obituary
Post by: olde north church on January 04, 2011, 05:36:21 PM

also a founding member of Stealer's Wheel

Title: Re: Gerry Rafferty obituary
Post by: Airwolf on January 04, 2011, 09:48:54 PM

Good songs, It's to bad he went so early. RIP

Title: Anyone have Gerry Rafferty in the dead pool?
Post by: Splashdown on January 05, 2011, 08:05:08 AM

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo[/youtube]

RIP.