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His abusive alcoholic father died when Gerry was only sixteen. Rafferty grew up in a council house on the town's Glenburn estate and attended Raffertys Wife. Mirin's Raffertys Wife. Inspired by his Scottish mother who taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs and Raffertys Wife music of and , Gerry started writing his own material. In he left St. Mirin's Academy and worked in a butcher's shop and as a Raffertys Wife service clerk while also playing with the local group Maverix on weekends. In the mid 60s Rafferty Raffertys Wife money busking on the London Raffertys Wife. In he met fellow musician Joe Egan; they were both members of the pop band the Fifth Column. In Gerry became the third member of the folk-pop outfit which also featured comedian Billy Connelly. Rafferty and Connelly recorded two well-received on the Transatlantic label as a duo. That same year Egan and Rafferty formed the group . Stealers Wheel had a huge hit with the jaunty and witty song "Stuck in the Middle with You," which peaked at 6 on the Billboard pop charts. Stealers Wheel had a lesser Top Raffertys Wife hit with "Star" ten months later and eventually broke up in In Gerry hit pay dirt with his second solo "," which soared to 1 on the Billboard album charts and sold over five million copies worldwide. The album also beget the hit song "Baker Street;" this haunting and poetic ballad was an international smash that went to 2 in America, 3 in the United Kingdom, 1 in Australia, and 9 in the Netherlands. Rafferty's third album "Night Owl" likewise did well. Unfortunately, Gerry had problems with alcoholism that directly contributed to his untimely death at age 63 from liver failure on January 4, ; he's survived by his daughter Martha, granddaughter Celia, and brother Jim. Sign In. Edit Gerry Raffertys Wife. Showing all 24 items. Formed, with Billy Connollya folk group called "The Humblebums". Hit song "Baker Street" was named after the famous London, England street of the same name. The iconic saxophone solo, featured so prominently on Rafferty's smash hit "Baker Street"was played by British musician . He does not appear in the video for "Stuck in the Middle with You" due to leaving Stealers Wheel, so the lead singer has to mime Rafferty's vocals. He had a top ten hit in the UK with "Night Owl" inalthough "Baker Street" is the song most Raffertys Wife with his career as a Raffertys Wife. The important thing for any young singer or Raffertys Wife is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity. I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures Raffertys Wife images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine. There have been periods in my Raffertys Wife where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac! In life, everything just happens, and I Raffertys Wife even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined. My main ambition is Raffertys Wife continue to write music, which helps me to Raffertys Wife in a spiritual sense and hopefully to inspire others. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Edit page. Deaths: January 4. The Greatest Musicians. Share this page:. Clear your history. Rafferty's Wife by Kay Hooper: | : Books

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Rafferty was born Raffertys Wife a working-class family in Paisley, RenfrewshireScotland. His mother taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs when he was a boy; later, he was influenced by Raffertys Wife music of The Raffertys Wife and Bob Dylan. He joined the folk-pop group Raffertys Wife Humblebums in Raffertys Wife Inhe recorded his second solo album, City to Citywhich included "Baker Street", his Raffertys Wife popular song. Rafferty was born on 16 April into a working-class family of Irish Catholic origin in Underwood Lane in PaisleyRaffertys Wife a son and grandson of coal miners. He recalled, "My father was Irish, so growing up in Paisley I was hearing all these songs when I was two or three. Songs like "She Moves Through the Fair"which my mother sings beautifully. And a whole suite of Irish traditional songs Raffertys Wife Scots traditional songs". Rafferty left St Mirin's Academy in He then worked in a butcher's shop, as a civil service clerk, and in a shoe shop. However, he explained in an interview, "But there was never anything else for me but music. I never intended making a career out of any of the jobs I did. Harvey left shortly afterwards, and Rafferty and Connolly continued as a duo, recording two more albums for Transatlantic Records. A appearance at the Royal Festival Hallsupporting Fotheringay with Nick Drakeearned a positive review from critic Karl Dallaswho noted that all three acts showed "promise rather than fulfilment", and observed that "'s songs have the sweet tenderness of Paul McCartney in Raffertys Wife 'Yesterday' Raffertys Wife. Once Rafferty decided to look in the telephone directory to see if any Hitlers were listed. After the duo separated inTransatlantic owner signed Rafferty as a solo performer. According to Rafferty's daughter Martha, it was around this time that her father discovered, by chance, 's classic Raffertys Wife The Outsiderabout alienation and creativity, which became a huge influence both on his songwriting and his outlook on the world: "The ideas and references contained in that one book were to sustain and inspire him for the rest of his life. The group was beset by legal wranglings, but had a huge hit " Stuck in the Middle with You ", which earned critical acclaim as well as commercial success: a article in Sounds described it as "a sort of cross between white label Beatles and punk Dylan yet with a unique Celtic flavour that has marked all their work". The duo disbanded in Legal issues after the break-up of Stealers Wheel meant that, for three years, Rafferty was unable to release any material. According to Murphy, interviewed by Billboard inhe and Rafferty Raffertys Wife to beg the , United Artists, to release "Baker Street" as a single: "They actually said it was too good for the public. Stealers Wheel was a flop. The Humblebums were a flop My life doesn't stand or fall by the Raffertys Wife of people who buy my records. We tried electric guitar but it sounded weak, and we tried Raffertys Wife things and I think it was Hugh Murphy's suggestion that we tried saxophone. In a interview with The TimesRavenscroft recalled the episode differently, claiming he was presented with a song that contained "several gaps". In fact, most of what I played was an old blues riff. I sang it to him. In the liner notes to the album, Rafferty's long-time friend and collaborator commented: "Let's hope [the Baker Street demo] will, at last, silence all who keep on asserting that the saxophone player came up with the melody line. He didn't. He just blew what he was told by the person who did write it, Gerry Rafferty. It's been a huge earner for me. I must admit, I Raffertys Wife live off that song alone". He never let "Baker Street" be used for advertising, despite lucrative offers. The song made No. It remained at the top of the adult contemporary chart for four non-consecutive weeks. The third single from the album, "Home Raffertys Wife Dry", reached No. The lyrics of "Baker Street" reflected Rafferty's disenchantment with certain elements of the music industry. His song "Baker Street" was about how uncomfortable he felt Raffertys Wife the star system, and what do you know, it was a giant world hit. The album City to City went to Raffertys Wife. And he now had more of what he didn't like. And although he had a few more hit singles in the United States, by it was basically all over, and when I say 'it', I mean basically his Raffertys Wife, because he just was not comfortable with this. His next album, Night Owlalso did well. Subsequent albums, such as Snakes and LaddersSleepwalkingand North and Southfared less well, perhaps due partly to Rafferty's longstanding reluctance to perform Raffertys Wife, with which he felt uncomfortable. InRafferty and Murphy produced a record for Richard and Linda Raffertys Wife ; though never released, it eventually evolved into their album . The album Sleepwalking saw Rafferty taking a very different approach to his work. Christopher Neil replaced Hugh Murphy, Rafferty's usual producer, introducing synthesisers and drum machines that give the album a harder, less acoustic sound, and apparently eschewing the richly detailed notable on Rafferty's three previous records. According to Murphy, interviewed a decade later: "Gerry had made three albums on the trot and I think he was pretty jaded at that time and feeling the pressure and he just thought, 'Well, I'll try another tack,' which Raffertys Wife understandable". There was change too in the Raffertys Wife. The deeply introspective lyrics of Sleepwalking suggest Rafferty found success far from glamorous: tracks like "Standing at the Gates", "Change of Heart", and "The Right Moment" suggest the singer was exhausted, burnt-out, and desperately seeking a new direction — and continued his long-running theme of alienation. Liner notes for the compilation album prepared with Rafferty's close co-operation [32] confirmed this several years later, Raffertys Wife the singer was now "finding himself at the crossroads and looking to replace the treadmill with a new dimension in his life". Also inRafferty announced his intention to take a break and devote more time to his family: "It dawned on me that since Baker Street Raffertys Wife had been touring the world, travelling everywhere and seeing nowhere. Whatever I do in the future, it's at my own pace, on my own terms. Based at 16th-century [35] Tye Farm in Hartfieldnear the - Raffertys Wife border, Rafferty installed electric gates to protect his privacy, built a recording studio, and worked largely by himself [36] or with Murphy. According to his former wife Carla, who discouraged visitors: Raffertys Wife was just stalling for time. Maybe some new project would suddenly Raffertys Wife, but I knew he'd crossed the line as far as the record business went. In an interview that year with Colin Irwin to promote the album, Rafferty mentioned that he was interested in doing more production work and writing film soundtracks, and even floated the idea of writing a musical about the life of . In Raffertys Wife TimesRaffertys Wife David Sinclair was particularly scathing: "On North and South, it sounds as if he has thumbed a lift up the road to a mock-Texan bar somewhere in his native . There is a mid-Atlantic blandness lurking behind the rococo roots veneer. Rafferty released two further albums in the s in what musician later described as "a Raffertys Wife return to Raffertys Wife. It included three tracks cowritten with Rafferty's brother Jim, also a singer-, who had been signed to in the s. These were the last two records Rafferty produced with Hugh Murphy, who died in According to guitarist Hugh Burns, Murphy's Raffertys Wife was "a great blow to Gerry" [41] and marked the end of a creative partnership that had lasted almost 30 years. By the end of the s, Raffertys Wife technology Raffertys Wife Rafferty to distance himself even further from the conventional approach of the music industry and work entirely on his own terms. Another Worldreleased Raffertys Wifewas originally available only via direct order from his website, [44] but since has been available on the Hypertension label. Byrne was also responsible for one of Rafferty's most prized possessions: a hand-painted Martin Raffertys Wife guitar bearing his Raffertys Wife and the name 'Gerry Rafferty', which features in many photographs of the singer. Another World marked a new departure for the singer. As he explained in a press release heralding the new record in November "My heart and soul have gone into this album, and by releasing it in this way my creative influence has not been diluted in any way. Rafferty felt he had matured as an artist, as he told the at the time of the release: "At my time of life, I don't want to be talking to year-old record executives who are just trying to sell their products to year-olds. I'm older and my audience is older. They'll know where to find me. Rafferty maintained his enthusiasm for this new approach to recording for the next three years. In a blog posting dated 31 March he wrote: "Let's get back to music: after all that's the only reason that this website has been set up. We will keep you informed of developments as they happen. This was again on the Hypertension music label. Featuring 18 tracks, the album contains six new recordings, covers of Christmas carols, plus also some traditional songs that had Raffertys Wife been available on the Gerry Rafferty web site. The remaining tracks are remastered tracks from his previous three albums. Rafferty's death in January rekindled interest in the singer's work. His daughter Martha relaunched Rafferty's old website, gerryrafferty. She portrayed her father as an autodidact with an "incredibly strong work ethic" and passion for books "There were literally whole walls of book shelves at home and he'd read every single word. Mainly philosophy, art, religion, psychology and many a biography. Other artists continue to be inspired by Rafferty's work. Rafferty drew a clear distinction between Raffertys Wife artistic integrity of a musician, on the one hand, and the music industry's need to create Raffertys Wife and sell products, Raffertys Wife the other. In an interview with Colin Irwin inhe said: "There's a thin line between being a songwriter and a singer and being a personality If you feel uncomfortable with it you shouldn't do Raffertys Wife. It's not for me — there are too many inherent contradictions. Even more so than most people who work in this business, he saw it as not a good thing". Gerry wanted respect. He wanted his talent to be respected. He wanted his songs to be respected. And he certainly got that. The liner notes to the compilation album Right Down the Linewritten by Jerry Gilbert with Rafferty's close co-operation, note his consistent refusal to tour the United States and "generally 'play the industry game'. His background was soaked in Scottish socialism Raffertys Wife poverty, his mind sharp and his personality acerbic, and he wasn't going to be dazzled by the glamour Raffertys Wife success. Rafferty never changed his mind about the music business; if anything, his views hardened. Inhe told the Paisley Daily Express that the second Stealers Wheel album, released inhad been named Ferguslie Raffertys Wifeafter a deprived Raffertys Wife area of Paisley, "to get as far away as possible from all the bullshit of the music industry in Raffertys Wife. Inyear-old Rafferty met year-old Raffertys Wife Ventilla, an apprentice hairdresser from an Italian family in Clydebankat a dancehall—a story he later recounted in the song "Shipyard Town" on North and South. They married in and lived in Scotland with their daughter, Martha Mary, before moving to the south of England in the late s, [20] where they divided their time between their farm near the Raffertys Wife — border and a home in HampsteadLondon. Rafferty and Ventilla divorced in After the completion of Another World inRafferty planned to move back to Scotland and bought Eaglestone House, [55] "a substantial listed s mansion" in the village of StrathpefferRaffertys Wife although he sold the property two years later and never actually moved in.