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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:13

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - R.P.

His music was part of the soundtrack of my life - and many others I suspect.

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:17

Gerry Raferty 1947-2011 - Bromptonaut

Sad news PU. Got a fair bit of his work on LP. Baker St, night Owl and Get it Right Next Time are particualr favourites. And the Steelers Wheel stuff was quite good as well.

Presumably it was the bottle wot got him??

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:18

Gerry Raferty 1947-2011 - R.P.

Liver failure - he did have a drink problem..

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:19

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Zero

Wow, didnt know. Yes indeed a sad loss, it wasn't that long ago we discussed the sax solo in Baker St.

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:47

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - BobbyG

Thats sad - think he was my sister in laws godfather.
RIP

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:53

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - corax

What a shame. I heard many of his tracks on the radio without even knowing who it was.

One of my favourites

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5yKaj3kGrQ

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 08:24

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Perky Penguin

Zero or anybody else - do you know who played the sax solo referred to? I ask because there was a brilliant sax player called Dick Morrissey who played with Jon and Vangelis. The BBC have just shown a clip of the Baker Street sax solo being played but it wasn't possible to make an identification.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 08:33

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Focusless

>> Zero or anybody else - do you know who played the sax solo referred to?

He was featured on The One Show:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwO0Mgzlg3I

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 08:56

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Perky Penguin

Morning all! Having got my brain cells in order I have found out that the sax solo was played by Gerry Rafferty himself!

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 09:00

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Zero

which sax solo? baker street?

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 10:34

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Perky Penguin

Was there any other one?

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 10:42

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Zero

>> Was there any other one?

No, but I wanted to make sure before I abused you roundly for being wrong.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 11:11

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Perky Penguin

Think positive! Try comlimenting me for being right! It is 2011 and you are still getting out of the wrong side of the bed. :>)

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 11:14

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Zero

you need to earn the glass half full promotion. By default everyone starts at the glass half empty stage.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 11:45

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Perky Penguin

Most kind! I must try even harder!

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 11:53

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Tooslow

I don't buy the "glass half full" / "glass half empty" argument. If I'm drinking it and it's going down then it's half empty, if I'm pouring and it's going up it's half full.

Sounds like GR's was empty most of the time. Sad. (I've had 3 attempts at typing "sad". I got "Das", then "sda" before hitting the target. I think my fingers have contracted dyslexia.

John

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 09:49

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - R.P.

Raphael Ravenscroft according to Wki !

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 09:53

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Focusless

>> Raphael Ravenscroft according to Wki !

...and my One Show link above (he's interviewed)

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 10:34

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Perky Penguin

Indeed - R Ravenscroft - one gets different information depending on where one looks!

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 13:39

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - TheManWithNoName

Raph Ravenscroft - I think you are correct PU.
Incidently he also played Sax on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon.

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 20:54

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Manatee

Still nothing on the BBC News site that I can find, I didn't know either.

Grauniad obit -

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

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 21:06

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Bellboy

i wonder what they will do with his car
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovk67yMiFI

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 22:12

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Stuartli

There are at least three references on the BBC website:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12116509

Some of his songs you never tire of hearing.

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 22:24

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Manatee

>> There are at least three references on the BBC website:

There are now - they were bound to get there eventually - the one you cite appeared 22 minutes ago. No others appear in the search results in BBC News.

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New Tue 4 Jan 11 22:33

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - MD

Rest In Peace Sir.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 12:12

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Number_Cruncher

To each and everyone of you
I say, "Goodbye, farewell, adieu"
To each and all I say, "Goodbye"
I know it's been fun but we're living a lie

You said you spoke straight from your heart
But that was the one thing that kept us apart
'Cause when I read between the lines
I saw that the only heart speaking was mine

To each and everyone of you
I say, "Goodbye", indeed I do
If you should ask me why I go?
I wouldn't say 'cause you should know

When everything is said and done
Nothing's been lost and nothing's been won
I took from you, you took from me
But I suppose that's how it had to be

To each and everyone of you
I say, "Goodbye", indeed I do
If you should ask me why I go?
I wouldn't say 'cause you should know

To each and everyone of you
I say, "Goodbye, farewell, adieu"
To each and all I say, "Goodbye"
I know it's been fun but we're living a lie

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 13:49

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Stuartli

>>- the one you cite appeared 22 minutes ago>>

I was aware of the times they were posted - perhaps I should have said: "There are now at least three references on the BBC website"..:-)

But unusual for this website to be so slow news wise considering it's continuously updated.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 14:31

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Armel Coussine

The name meant nothing to me. After my time, wrong sort of music. But I do remember the track 'Back in the middle with you', and liked it at the time. So RIP.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 15:02

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Hard Cheese

But you know he'll always keep movin'
You know he's never gonna stop movin
Cus he's rollin'
He's the rollin' stone

It's the same for all of us, the only question is when.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 15:51

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Zero

well he aint rolling now, is he?

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 15:58

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Hard Cheese

His music rolls on, that's the point.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 16:03

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Iffy

...His music rolls on, that's the point...

And the royalties keep rolling in, by the looks of it.

He might have been a drunken Scotsman, but he was also a canny one.

Plenty of artists who have only a couple of hits - even big ones - finish up skint.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 18:44

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - rtj70

And he was apparently getting around £80k pa from one old song.

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New Wed 5 Jan 11 19:04

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Hard Cheese

Lots of GR on Radio 2 today, Night Owl is really a great track!!

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New Thu 6 Jan 11 08:57

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Netsur

Like the Nick Hornby book (I think) and the film with Hugh Posh Bloke - About a Boy - where the adult character lives on the royalties from his Dad's Christmas hit of 30 years earlier.

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New Sat 8 Jan 11 12:36

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - Zero

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12135501

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New Sat 8 Jan 11 17:17

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - VxFan

They've just announced the seating plan for Gerry Rafferty's funeral. Clowns to the left, jokers to the right.

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New Sat 8 Jan 11 18:52

Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011 - swiss tony

>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12135501
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Only thing is - the song was written about Baker Street, Glasgow.

The music video does show The London Baker Street though, presumably because its the famous one......

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