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Gerry Rafferty

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Gerald Rafferty, better known as Gerry Rafferty ( Paisley, 16 April 1947 - Bournemouth , January 4 2011) was a songwriter Scottish .

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Figlio di madre scozzese e padre irlandese, da giovane iniziò a guadagnare esibendosi nella  Metropolitana di Londra  ed il suo brano di maggior successo,  Baker Street , è ispirato proprio a quelle sue esperienze giovanili.

Le prime esperienze professionali cominciarono con la collaborazione con  Billy Connolly  nella band The Humblebums. Nel  1971  registrò il suo primo album solista,  Can I Have My Money Back . Nel  1972 , col suo vecchio classmate Joe Egan, Stealers Wheel founded the group, which, however, did not achieve noteworthy successes, apart from the single Stuck in the Middle riporatato to success in later . The group disbanded in 1975 . In 1978

, Rafferty recorded the solo album City To City , which included Baker Street , a song that reached the third position in the UK and the second in the U.S.. The album sold over 5,000,000 copies, surpassing Saturday Night Fever . Apart from the following Night Owl, the following work did not get feedback from audiences and critics are comparable to those obtained with City To City . In 2008

was hospitalized for liver problems, but then they are untraceable. In November 2010 , Rafferty was rushed to hospital in Bournemouth, in Dorset , a serious complication in liver consequent problems of alcoholism . He died on January 4 2011 at the age of 63 years. ^[1]