Gerry Rafferty died a couple of weeks ago, and everyone has been posting links to Baker Street. I'm in a melancholy mood today, so I've been happily listening to it again and again. As I'm listening to it, I'm amused that I know all the lyrics. It was the soundtrack of my youth.
Rafferty had a sad life. I hope he's found peace.
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I actually love “Right Down the Line” by him. /70smusicgeek
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I’d choose “Right Down the Line” over this song too–but the power this tune can’t be beat. It’s almost too much, the way in which it mixes such a weighty, even ponderous, melancholic mood with a kind of lightness. It makes me think of a tired, little sad, but mostly just plain lazy end of a hot summertime, every time I hear it.
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He also apparently sung for the group that did “Stuck in the Middle With You.”
Also, my brain is playing a mashup of “Baker Street,” “Year of the Cat,” and the Moby version of James Bond.
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He was in The Humblebums with Billy Connolly (now, bizarrely, in Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black, what a come down for a truly great comedian). Two completely screwed up people working together. I chose Baker Street for very personal reasons (not telling, so don’t bother asking), not because I like it best (I think I might go with Right Down the Line too, if pressed).
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