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Stuck In The Middle With You singer dead
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Dead at 63: singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. (lineout987.blogspot.com)
Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, best known for the hits Stuck In The Middle With You and Baker Street, has died aged 63, The Guardian reports.

He was reportedly hospitalised in November with liver failure.

Rafferty played with Billy Connolly's folk outfit The Humblebum and co-founded the soft-rock group Stealer's Wheel in 1972.

The band's debut featured Stuck In The Middle With You, which was later featured in Quentin Tarantino's film, Reservoir Dogs.

Rafferty went on to enjoy a successful solo career.

Baker Street appeared on Rafferty's 1978 album City To City and was still netting more than 80,000 pounds a year 30 years on.

In recent years, Rafferty was better known for alcohol-fuelled incidents than his music.

His last album, Another World, was released in 2000.

[firko]

 Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
     Here I am, Stuck in the middle with you.
The credo to my life.....Thanks Jerry, it was fun while it lasted.

[Tossa]

loved his music, he used to play folk music with billy Connolly

[TooFastTim]

I'd heard he was ill. Apparently he was living as a derelict.

Great music.

[Hoony]

i have the 1978 "City to City " album on 8 Track cartridge 

[firko]

That alto sax solo in Baker street would have to be one of the most famous sax solos in rock history.
Originally the solo was intended to be played by sesion guitarist Luther Grovener* but he didn't show up. The recording session sax player, Raphael Ravenscroft* put his hand up to have a go and the rest is history. He was paid 27 pounds for the gig and the cheque later bounced.

Don't you just love these names? Their real names are probably something like Bert Smith and John Brown.

[Curly3]

8 TRACK , How old did you say you were Hoony?
I remember listening to Johny Cash, Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink hour after hour on dads 8 track, on the way too & from race meetings in the late 60's early 70's.
I still have the City ti City LP and it's always sad to hear when someone linked to your youth passes away and is also a reminder of the age that we've managed to reach, so far.
Amazing how many of the guy's from that era suffer with liver disease.
R.I.P. Gerry.

[Hoony]

8 TRACK , How old did you say you were Hoony?
I remember listening to Johny Cash, Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink hour after hour on dads 8 track, on the way too & from race meetings in the late 60's early 70's.
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Yeah i know, sad isn't it that i have 8 tracks STILL. i bought it for $10 2nd hand as a 13 year old in 1976, i then realised that the cartridges were impossible to get then. i did manage to buy NOS shelf items like Zeppelin IV, Eagles, Meatloaf's Bat out of hell, Deep Purple "In Rock" ( heavy album that one, great stuff) and some Dag-Miester shit that i ain't mentioning 

God Speed Gerry R

[firko]

Last year I bought an Altec 8 track complete with a box containing 20 or so tapes, (mostly crap like The Carpenters and Cliff Richards) for $10 at the local church fete and sold it for $50 to my neighbours mate from work who was restoring a rare Valiant panel van and wanted it all 70's authentic. Turns out that Altec was the Alpine of 8 tracks and I could have got $200-300 from 8 track train spotters.

[Curly3]

Shit, I had an 8 track recorder that connected to a turntable to transfer vinyl to tape including a bunch of tapes and let it go at a garage sale a couple of years ago for $10.00.
Actually I'm 3 years older than you Hoony, now thats sad.
Sorry Gerry, this thread was meant to be about your passing.

[allan hughes]

karen carpenter
had a lovely unsynthesied voice
 

[TooFastTim]

karen carpenter
had a lovely unsynthesied voice
 

Jeez dude you kissed your masculinity goodbye. Man rule #676, NEVER admit you like the Capenters or ABBA.
(ranks up there with Man rule #3 Thou shalt never put the toilet seat down.)

[TT]

2 bits of trivia..............  
Gerry played in a band with Billy Connolly called the Humblebums.

I remember listening to Johny Cash, Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink hour after hour

Englebert Humperdink isn't his real name.   Why would you change your name to Englebert Humperdink?  

[Captain Bilko]

Why would you change your name to Englebert Humperdink?  

It may have been Englebert Hitler.....

[TooFastTim]

Englebert Humperdink isn't his real name.   Why would you change your name to Englebert Humperdink?  

But there really was a guy called that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englebert_Humperdink