RIP Gerry Rafferty

[D-3 Fan]

Baker Street is in mourning today. Rafferty passes away at 63 after a long illness.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/04/gerry-rafferty-dies-aged-63

 

[Captain_Kirk]

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Hope in the afterlife, there are no clowns to the left of him, jokers to the right. RIP.

 

[poindexter]

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Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet


aww, forget it...

 

[BYH]

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Damn damn damn. That really saddens me. "Baker Street" has always been among my five favorite songs ever (the Foo Fighters cover is almost better than the real thing) and I always liked the other Rafferty songs I heard on the radio. I got "City To City," which is the album that generated "Baker Street," for like $5 at the supermarket (!!) a couple years ago and it's outstanding. When my Mom was battling cancer, I found comfort in the song "Right Down The Line," which sounded as if it could have been written by my Dad for my Mom.

I read Rafferty was a recluse (had no idea about his sad past and losing battle with alcoholism) but always held out hope he'd tour America and I'd get to see him perform these classic songs. I'll definitely fire up "City To City" tonight. RIP.

 

[Steak Snabler]

RIP, Gerry Rafferty

Best known for "Baker Street" and "Stuck in the Middle With You" (in Stealer's Wheel). Dead at 63:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1655288/gerry-rafferty-dead-at-63.jhtml

 

[slappy4428]

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Baker Street had one of the best Saxophone solos in it ever. RIP...

 

[poindexter]

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Winding your way down DB Street...

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/81380/

 

[D-3 Fan]

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We'll merge them, though Gerry probably deserves two threads!

 

[crimsonace]

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Right down the line ... RIP to an underrated singer.

 

[linotype]

Heaven must have needed a soundtrack to an ear-slicing.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

RIP. Talented guy.

If anything the obits I've seen soft-pedal his alcoholism. Dude made Keith Richards look Mormon. A few years ago he disappeared on his way to rehab and was missing for months. He was widely presumed dead. That's the last I had heard about him before today. I'm glad he turned up and was able to live out his days at home, at least.

Sad.

 

[bigbadeagle]

Home and Dry is another great song.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Loved his music, and Baker Street had a lot of meaning in my teen life.

 

[HC]

Hard to quantify his importance in my life and musical development. Sad tonight.

 

[Double J]

Great singer, great songs. RIP.

 

[patchs]

I've owned his greatest hits for years, one of my all-time favs, along with Paul Davis and Dan Fogelberg, who left us too soon.
When I got home from work last night, I cranked up Baker Street, Right Down the Line, Get It Right Next Time, Home and Dry and Days Gone Down.
RIP, Gerry, hopefully you'll find peace in the next level.

 

[sportsguydave]

"Get It Right Next Time" is my fave. A poignant reminder that no matter how bad we screw up, sometimes there are do-overs.

RIP.

 

[Dyno]

The summer I lived in London, I had to pass through the Baker Street tube stop pretty much every day. I never got annoyed that the song got stuck in my head. RIP Gerry.

 

[verbalkint]

"Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealer’s Wheel when they recorded this Dylanesque, pop bubble-gum favorite from April of 1974. That reached up to number five, as K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies continues..."