Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (UK) youtube/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM Baker Street (song) Baker Street is a song written and first recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in 1978, it reached #1 in Cash Box and #2 in Billboard - where it held for six weeks. Additionally, it hit #1 in Canada, #3 in the United Kingdom, #1 in Australia and top 10 in the Netherlands. The arrangement is known for its haunting saxophone solo. Rafferty received the 1978 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In October 2010 the song was recognised by BMI for surpassing 5 million performances worldwide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_%28song%29 . O cantor e autor: Gerry Rafferty Gerald Gerry Rafferty (Paisley, 16 de abril de 1947 - Bournemouth, 4 de janeiro de 2011) foi um cantor, compositor e músico escocês. Carreira Ele começou sua carreira como músico de rua e seu primeiro grupo foi o Humblebums, que em seguida, lançou um álbum solo. Em 1972 formou um novo grupo, o Stealers Wheel, ao lado de Joe Egan e em 1975, o grupo se desfez. A canção mais conhecida dele é Baker Street, incluído no disco City to city, datado de 1978. Outra música conhecida é Stuck In The Middle With You, composta por Rafferty para o Stealers Wheel, e que fez parte da trilha sonora do filme de Quentin Tarantino, Cães de Aluguel. pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Rafferty . O Saxofonista: Raphael Ravenscroft Raphael Ravenscroft (4 June 1954 – 19 October 2014), was a musician, composer and author. Gerry Rafferty & Baker Street In January 1978, Scottish singer-musician Gerry Rafferty released his 1st solo material since 1972 and first material of any kind since the demise of Stealers Wheel in 1975. A then unheralded session musician, Ravenscroft was asked to play saxophone on the album City to City. Ravenscrofts contribution included the sax riff on the best known song from the album and of Raffertys career, Baker Street. The song was an international hit, charting at number 3 in the UK and number 2 in the USA. Baker Street was reported in 2010 as having received 5 million air plays worldwide to date. City to City reached number 1 in the US album charts and went platinum. In the UK the album reached number 6 and went gold. Ravenscroft told the BBCs The One Show in 2010 that he was only paid £27.50 for the Baker Street session, which was the Musicians Union rate at the time. It has been reported that the cheque bounced and that it was kept on the wall of Ravenscrofts solicitors; by contrast the song is said to have earned Rafferty £80,000 a year in royalties. In a radio interview in 2011, Ravenscroft said the song annoyed him. Im irritated because its out of tune, he said. Yeah, its flat. By enough of a degree that it irritates me at best. Ravenscroft mostly refused playing Baker Street during interviews. The last time Ravenscroft played Baker Street was in the summer of 2014, when he organised a charity gala concert in Exeter for Nicole Hartup, the 12-year-old city schoolgirl who died in a tragic fall. The saxophone break on Baker Street has been described with such platitudes as, the most famous saxophone solo of all time, the most recognizable sax riff in pop music history, and one of the most recognisable saxophone solos of all time Ravenscroft worked with Rafferty from 1977 to 1982. As well as the songs he worked on for City to City he contributed to Raffertys next two album, Night Owl and Snakes and Ladders. In 2011 he recorded a tribute to commemorate the funeral of Gerry Rafferty called Forgiveness, which combined his saxophone playing with the voices of Grammy-nominated choir Tenebrae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Ravenscroft Hugh Burns interview. January 2002. An affair of the craft. For Guitarist magazine. andrewbrel/interviewhugh.html Baker Street Demo - Gerry Rafferty youtube/watch?v=7bcXRkMs0fs Steve Marcus - Half a Heart youtube/watch?v=-kxG4U_1uv0
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