"Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well, another crazy day, you'll drink the night away
And you forget about everything"
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well, another crazy day, you'll drink the night away
And you forget about everything"
"Baker Street"
Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer-songwriter probably best known for his songs "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", and (with the band Stealers Wheel) "Stuck in the Middle with You" (currently associated with a notorious instance of Soundtrack Dissonance in Reservoir Dogs). Make sure you spell his name correctly, e.g. "Gerry" not 'Jerry", but "if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time".
"These tropes are going, they're going home":
- Constant as the Northern Star: "Right Down the Line" describes the stability provided by the woman he loves comparing her to a northern star.You've been as constant as a Northern StarThe brightest light that shinesIt's been you, womanRight down the line
- Cover Version: Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life, Woman", John Lennon's "Out the Blue".
- Location Song: "Baker Street", about the London street. It's a melancholic jazz song.
- Musical Pastiche: "Stuck in the Middle with You" (a Stealers Wheel song that Rafferty cowrote and sang lead on) is a Bob Dylan pastiche that is so dead-on it's been continually misattributed to Dylan ever since its release.
- New Sound Album: Sleepwalking introduced synthesizers and drum machines into his work.
- Self-Titled Album: 1974's Gerry Rafferty, which is primarily a compilation of songs he recorded as a member of the Humblebums with Billy Connolly at the start of his career.