∙ In 2012, a year after his death, Rafferty’s hometown of Paisley, Scotland, renamed a street in his honor: Gerry Rafferty Drive. 5 hit in the UK, becoming only his second song to chart that high. ∙ The title track of his 1979 album, Night Owl, was a No. ∙ 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. ∙ 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. ∙ 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. ∙ 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? In 2012, a year after his death, Rafferty’s hometown of Paisley, Scotland, renamed a street in his honor: Gerry Rafferty Drive. Several of Gerry Raffertys solo albums, including City to City and Night Owl and parts of Snakes and Ladders and Sleepwalking, were recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, which occupied this Grade II listed building at 28/30 New Street, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, from 1972 until its closure in 1999. Featured peformers: Gerry Rafferty (vocals), Gerry Rafferty (producer, writer), Liam Genockey (drums), Hugh Murphy (producer). 5 hit in the UK, becoming only his second song to chart that high. Released in 1979 on United Artists (catalog no. Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty got his start in the folk-rock group The Humblebums in 1969. The title track of his 1979 album, Night Owl, was a No.
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