Write Anything (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Image via Wikimedia Commons in the public domain. 2009 sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Rabbie Burns, the national bard of Scotland. In celebration of this, the Scottish Government declared 2009 to be the year of homecoming, an opportunity for expat Scots (like me) or those with Scottish ancestry to return to [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List If Quentin Tarantino 's movie career can be encapsulated in a single blast of music, it's the twang-laden rumble of Dick Dale 's 'Miserlou.' Energizing the opening credits of ' Pulp Fiction ,' it's a hard, fast piece of retro cool set in an eminently modern (and post-modern) context. Plus, it's exciting as hell. Few other filmmakers have been so renowned for their...
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
Rock music has a robust history, so every Wednesday, J.A. Bartlett of the Hits Just Keep On Comin' talks about the biggest and most intriguing moments from years past... This week in 1999, drummer Skip Spence died two days short...
Radio Dupree (Free subscription) | 02/23/2009
He's had two big hits; Stuck In The Middle With You in 1972 as a member of Stealers Wheel , and Baker Street in 1978 as a solo artist. Lately the Scottish singer-singwriter Gerry Rafferty has been in the press due to dissapearing from a wrecked hotel room in London last June in the middle of a boozy breakdown. In the news it is being reported that he had disgharged himself from the hospital diagnosed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
Gerry Rafferty, the singer who wrote the 1978 hit Baker Street, who was rumoured to have gone missing, is alive and well and writing music in his Tuscany home. The Paisley-born singer, who formed folk group the Humblebums with comedian Billy Connolly before going on to front Stealers Wheel and writing Stuck in the Middle With You, hit the headlines in August when he trashed his room at the Westbury...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
Gerry Rafferty has confirmed that he is not missing, telling fans he is living happily in Tuscany writing his next album.
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
Scottish singer Gerry Rafferty, best known stateside as the voice of Stealers Wheel (the band's song plays during the infamous "ear scene" in Resevoir Dogs ), has been missing since August. Rafferty was kicked out of London's Westbury Hotel last August, and then immediately went to St. Thomas Hosipital where he was treated for alcohol addiction and liver failure. Rafferty left the hospital...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
Veteran singer GERRY RAFFERTY is alive and well - and living anonymously at a south of England hideaway, according to his ex-wife. The Baker Street hitmaker disappeared ...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
Fears are growing for the safety and whereabouts of Gerry Rafferty, who has been missing for over seven months.
THE STEEL DEAL (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
_____________________ Gerry Rafferty, the singer behind the 1978 hit Baker Street, which features one of the most famous saxophone solos in musical history, has been missing for nearly six months after mysteriously disappearing from St Thomas's Hospital in London last...
Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
I'll post a few songs, you give your opinion if you think it's in the AM Gold genre or Yacht Rock genre. There's no both. It's one or the other. We'll start with unappreciated singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. He's best known...
Leo's Stuff (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
It's 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty. Yep, a classic 70's tune, with 4 of the tastiest notes ever recorded (check our around 4:48 of the song to see what I mean). For you trivia buffs, Gerry Rafferty was also part of the duo that was Stealers Wheel, who had one hit, "Stuck in the Middle with You" around 1972. The group broke up around 1975 due to legal difficulties. The Foo Fighters did...
Lost-In-Tyme (Free subscription) | 11/02/2007
Although remembered today primarily for one or two songs, Stealers Wheel in its own time bid fair to become Britain's answer to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Only the chronic instability of their line-up stood in their way after a promising start. Gerry Rafferty (b. Paisley, Scotland, Apr. 16, 1946) and Joe Egan (b. 1946) had first met at school in Paisley when they were teenagers. Rafferty had...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 07/13/2007
This is from the Humblebums' second album, The Humblebums, released in 1969. The Humblebums were formed by Tam Harvey and Billy Connolly, but it was when Tam Harvey was finally replaced by Gerry Rafferty that the group gained more respect for their music. Much of the music on this second album, including this song, were written by Rafferty. The band split in 1971 with Rafferty going on to form Stealers...
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