Gerry Rafferty Baker Street

Cancion: Baker Street
Interprete: Gerry Rafferty
Album: City To City
Año:1988

Info:
Career

In his early years, Gerry Rafferty earned money busking on the London Underground. Poetically, his biggest hit "Baker Street" was about busking at a tube station. After working with Billy Connolly in a band called the Humblebums, he recorded a first solo album, Can I Have My Money Back. In 1972 Rafferty and his old school friend Joe Egan formed Stealers Wheel, a group beset by legal wranglings, but did have a huge hit "Stuck in the Middle With You" (made famous for a new generation in the movie Reservoir Dogs) and the smaller top 40 hit "Star" ten months later. The duo disbanded in 1975.

In 1978, Gerry Rafferty cut a solo album, City to City, which included the song with which he remains most identified, "Baker Street". The single reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 2 in the U.S.[2][3] The album sold over 5.5 million copies, toppling the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in the U.S. on 8 July 1978.[4] Even today, "Baker Street", which features a "glistening" saxophone solo by Raphael Ravenscroft, remains a mainstay of soft-rock radio airplay.[5]Another song from the City to City album, "Right Down the Line," also continues to receive copious radio airplay.[citation needed] Also from City to City, "Home and Dry" managed a #28 spot in the US Top 40 in early 1979.[6] One of the more obscure tracks from that time is "Big Change in the Weather" (the B-side of "Baker Street").[7]. His next album, Night Owl, also did well with the help of guitarist Richard Thompson performing on the track "Take The Money and Run", and the title track was a UK No. 5 hit in 1979. "Days Gone Down" reached #17 in the U.S. The follow-up single "Get It Right Next Time" made the UK & US Top 40.

Subsequent albums, such as Snakes and Ladders (1980), Sleepwalking (1982), and North and South (1988), fared less well, perhaps due partly to Rafferty's general reluctance to perform live. "Don't Give Up On Me", from his 1992 collection On A Wing and a Prayer, is a much-featured oldie on BBC Radio 2. That album reunited him with Stealers Wheel partner Joe Egan on several tracks. Rafferty redid his own "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway" on the album Over My Head (1994). His latest effort was Another World, released in 2000, and was originally available only by direct order via his no longer active website but is now available on the Hypertension label. Another World featured an album cover illustrated by John Byrne 'Patrick', who also illustrated the covers for Can I Have My Money Back?, City to City, Night Owl, and Snakes and Ladders, as well as all three Stealers Wheel albums.

Away from his album work, Rafferty also contributed to the soundtrack to the film, Local Hero - "The Way it Always Starts" (1983), and co-produced The Proclaimers first UK hit single, "Letter From America", in 1987 with Hugh Murphy.

Fuente: wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Rafferty

Letra:
winding your way down on baker street
lite in your head, and dead on your feet
well another crazy day, you drink the night away
and forget about everything.

this city desert makes you feel so cold, its got
so many people but its got no soul
and its taken you so long to find out you were wrong
when you thought it held everything.

you used to think that it was so easy
you used to say that it was so easy
but you're tryin, you're tryin now

another year and then you'd be happy
just one more year and then you'd be happy
but you're cryin', you're cryin now

way down the street there's a light in his place
you open the door, he's got that look on his face
and he asks you where you've been, you tell him who you've seen and you talk about anything

he's got this dream about buyin' some land
he's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
and then he'll settle down, it's a quiet little town
and forget about everything

but you know he'll always keep moving
you know he's never gonna stop moving
cause he's rollin, he's the rolling stone

and when you wake up it's a new morning
the sun is shining it's a new morning
and you're going, you're going home

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[Lrdvltr]

Remove the greasy shit in the beginning.

[TheNeroXIII]

R I P Gerry Rafferty , Thanks For The Great Music

[MrLukeroberts91]

Ah that terrible song with a great sax line.

[IrenaPrude]

I would like to see Pastor John Hagee cover this song...

[Jimmy146]

Great song!!

[finnmick96]

R.I.P Gerry Rafferty.

[lyonslaforet]

A great, soaring song thanks to its unforgettable saxophone part!

[Cardio1027]

I just love office music. And I would always hear this song when I would go to the dentist or any doctor's appointment.

[nostalgikful]

LOVE FOREVER !

[Getrealpeeps]

i still love this song (When I was a KID), I thought he said You know he's NEVER gunna STOP moving, cause he's rolling, he's BEEN ROLLING STRONG, (instead of He's rolling, he's THE ROLLING STONE) It DOESN'T matter, it's STILL a GREAT song

R I P Gerry Rafferty

[Getrealpeeps]

@chuckbuckbobuck SOOOOOOO TRUE