Gerry Rafferty - RIP

brummytom · 05-01-2011 12:49am #1

Apologies if this has already been posted, I've just seen on Paul Brady's facebook page that Gerry Rafferty died yesterday, aged 63. I can't get a link as I'm on my phone so its a right faff, but the BBC are reporting it too.

'Baker Street' and 'Stuck in the middle with you' are two of my favourite songs. A great loss, and 25 years to the day (I think) since Phil Lynott died.

RIP

The Agogo · 05-01-2011 12:55am

Such a shock...so young(ish)

RIP

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 05-01-2011 12:57am

Baker Street the song everyone knows but not by name....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo

RIP

starbelgrade · 05-01-2011 12:58am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWJOUiKvRk

Rest In Peace, Music Man

TeddyTedson · 05-01-2011 1:10am

all the great musicians are dying off...:(

orourkeda · 05-01-2011 1:11am

I dont know why I came here tonight

Trhiggy83 · 05-01-2011 1:12am

RIP
Good song, i sure his memory will live on

latenia · 05-01-2011 1:15am

I wonder will Bob Holness be performing Baker St at his funeral?

orourkeda · 05-01-2011 1:16am

latenia wrote: »

I wonder will Bob Holness be performing Baker St at his funeral?

Clowns to the left of me, Holness to the right.

UsernameInUse · 05-01-2011 1:27am

Christ...he'll be sadly missed. I thought he would have won the Louth election too.

Run_to_da_hills · 05-01-2011 1:39am

RIP.

Another great icon of the 70's gone along with Ian Jury and Lynott. .

JohnnyBananas · 05-01-2011 9:44pm

RIP Gerry was also a talented prank telephone call artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q8hxXvpOLw

stovelid · 05-01-2011 9:52pm

Good artist who had a pretty hard life by the sounds of it.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 05-01-2011 10:06pm

RIP Gerry, what a great artist.

now why the f*ck is Daniel O Donnell still alive, he's brutal!

"And when you wake up it's a new mornin'
The sun is shinin' it's a new morning
You're goin'
You're goin' home."

CoalBucket · 05-01-2011 10:13pm

latenia wrote: »

I wonder will Bob Holness be performing Baker St at his funeral?

Excuse my ignorance but I don't get that reference at all.

Wasn't Bob Holness the presenter of Blockbusters ?

PeterIanStaker · 05-01-2011 10:15pm

RIP Gerry. Him and Pete Postlethwaite in the one week. Sucks.

ascanbe · 05-01-2011 10:20pm

CoalBucket wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance but I don't get that reference at all.

Wasn't Bob Holness the presenter of Blockbusters ?

Someone wrote, in the NME, i think, for a laugh, that Bob Holness played the saxophone on 'Baker Street'.
It took hold and started being repeated as fact.

CoalBucket · 05-01-2011 10:23pm

Got the reference now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12120809

Capt'n Midnight · 06-01-2011 1:27am

The sax on Baker Street. Wonderful.

Night Owl is another you should know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WgDAp5AF8o

brummytom · 04-02-2011 10:54pm

Sorry to bump, but I've just (randomly) found this thread again.
Coincidentally, I saw Paul Brady in Birmingham on Sunday. As I said in the OP, I found out of Gerry Rafferty's death from his facebook page, as they were good friends.

Paul did a version of Baker Street in tribute, but with pipes instead of a saxophone, it was absolutely amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrIrHwNxexU

NeedaNewName · 04-02-2011 11:14pm

R.I.P in peace.

Midnight_EG · 04-02-2011 11:18pm

NeedaNewName wrote: »

R.I.P in peace.

Rest In Peace in peace?

Gerry Rafferty - RIP

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