RIP Gerry Rafferty

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

A good life is getting to write, record, and perform some amazing songs and then live a few decades more to reap the rewards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sedPivIxfM

RIP :(

great song ^^^ RIP.

oh man, RIP! i've been listening to 'city to city' a lot in the '11 to dispel the inversion

" In phases of renunciation, he smashed cases of superb wines into a stream on his land. "

This has always been my favorite song of his...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpxyfyOyec

this one's great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPVUDRQPTNs&feature=player_embedded#!

RIP
Just jammed the full length version of 'Baker Street'.

A now-forgotten single, Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine, preceded the minor hit Star and the 1974 album Ferguslie Park.

I had totally forgotten! Loved this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0i8p-uRrvU

The sadness of his life is sort of obvious from the vibe of a lot of his best songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WgDAp5AF8o&feature=related

Today is the first time I ever listened to a song by this guy that wasn't "Baker Street"

Oh, he was in Stealers Wheel. Make that two songs I've heard.

very sad. rip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXG9VcBmd0E

^ my dad always put this one song on every damn mix tape he ever made

"So goodnight, yeah goodnight
Goodnight train is gonna carry me home"

A horrible day this. RIP.

Bummer. "Baker Street" was always my ideal of the perfect song...or one of them.

From the wiki bio sounds like he has had a pretty rough trot with alcholism and liver trouble for a while now. :(

yeah. btw "baker street" smells like burgers and fries at a snackbar, and looks like seagulls flying low over long island sound on a very hot and humid sunny summer day.

"Night Owl" is a good song!

"baker street" smells like burgers and fries at a snackbar

More like fish'n'ships served at a bar just outside Madame Tussaud's. :)

(And with Sherlock Holmes and Watson sitting at the table besides)

Not to be obvious, but it's a must:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=komvFIGYBYM&feature=fvst

City to City has been a Top 20 album of mine since forever. Night Owl and Snakes & Ladders are also real good. Those plus 3 or 4 more are going to work with me tomorrow.

A few lesser known gems that somehow didn't make it onto the Right Down the Line Best Of collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOBYa7SqFCY
Welcome to Hollywood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_k6z44t6U
Days Gone Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mLaHIPcRCY
The Royal Mile

RIP -ever since my pop told me not to the watch reservoir dogs dvd that was on the front room table at a tender age of ten i have loved that song and more.

hi jumpskins

on my way to work today and playing on K-EARTH 101, an oldies station in Los Angeles, was "Stuck In the Middle With You." turned to my dad and told him that this guy died yesterday.

RIP

Gerry laid to the rest in the old home toon. See ya next time around, I'll be having a drink or two in your memory tonight.

Oops, I've been away for a while, link: Gerry laid to the rest in the old home toon

Where u been dada? Good to see you back. Saw a crate filled with Cluster, Moebius, Roedelius reissues yesterday and kinda needed instant advice :-)
(not just "buy them all" ;-)

/off topic blabla

I bought City to City in a fit of childhood nostalgia earlier this year as my Dad was a huge Stealer's Wheel and Rafferty fan when I was very young. I ripped it and didn't bother to listen to the record properly. Then Whatever's Written On Your Heart came on shuffle earlier today. That is a perfect wee song.

top five in England! I didn't know. Anyway, what a fetching mix of "Grease," "Deacon Blues," and faint homoerotica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vTnff0pkgs