Albums by Gerry Rafferty
ALBUMRest In BlueGerry Rafferty
ALBUMAnother WorldGerry Rafferty
ALBUMSleepwalkingGerry Rafferty
ALBUMSnakes and LaddersGerry Rafferty
ALBUMNight OwlGerry Rafferty
ALBUMCity to CityGerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty's Popular Music Videos
Days Gone Down
Gerry Rafferty
Whatever's Written in Your Heart
Gerry Rafferty
Artist Playlists
Gerry Rafferty Essentials
The master of melody’s sophisticated, grooving soft-rock classics.
Artist Biography
Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty got his start in the folk-rock group The Humblebums in 1969.
∙ Tired of competing with the onstage routines of his Humblebums partner—and future comedy star Billy Connolly—he left to record his 1971 solo LP, Can I Have My Money Back?
∙ His breakthrough came in 1972 when his band Stealers Wheel had a global hit with “Stuck in the Middle With You”—which later scored a particularly grisly scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
∙ Steely Dan was so impressed by Rafferty that they considered him as a possible replacement for their departed singer, David Palmer—until Donald Fagen was talked into taking the job himself.
∙ City to City, his 1978 Platinum album, included his biggest hit, “Baker Street,” with an unforgettable sax hook derived from a guitar lick he’d played on the demo.
∙ The title track of his 1979 album, Night Owl, was a No. 5 hit in the UK, becoming only his second song to chart that high.
∙ In 2012, a year after his death, Rafferty’s hometown of Paisley, Scotland, renamed a street in his honor: Gerry Rafferty Drive.
Hometown
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Genre
Rock