![]() It never went away, but neither was Rafferty able to get out from under the looming shadow the song cast, or seem to escape the demons in him it appeared to amplify. The actual the actual figure, however was much higher. In 2003, Rafferty was quoted as estimating that the song was still earning him £80,000 a year. The sound of Baker Street would become as emblematic of the era as any of Queen’s excursions into mock-opera, the Eagles’ sun-blushed harmonies, the Bee Gees’ stratospheric disco or Johnny Rotten sneering ‘God save the Queen’. “They smiled more, gave me bigger portions of food at school lunches, and I remember feeling how fake and phony people became. “When Baker Street became the hit that it was, adults changed towards me,” recalls Martha Rafferty. He was very sure of his own talent and equally suspicious of how it would be exploited.” I had seen many sides of the record business by then. He was very guarded, but I could understand that. From my side of things, the main problem was that basically he wanted me to say no to everything. Quite the opposite, he needed someone to more or less answer the phone. ![]() Mad promoters from Utah would be ringing him in the middle of the night and demanding that he tour. “The album had sold more than four million and he didn’t even have a manager. “I don’t believe he had any particular expectations that he would have such enormous successes commercially,” says Michael Grey, head of press at United Artists when City To City was released and who Rafferty brought in as his manager. Altogether, no aspect of his life would ever again be the same. The insular Rafferty wryly noted how he had become an overnight sensation from doing what he had for a decade. Off the back of it, City To City sold five and a half million copies and knocked the Bee Gees’ until then all-conquering Saturday Night Fever soundtrack from the top of the Billboard chart in the States. He got a telegram from McCartney congratulating him on “an incredible song”. Baker Street rose to Number Three on the UK chart, went one higher in the US and won Rafferty two Ivor Novello awards. Rafferty and Murphy practically had to beg them to put it out, but once they did on February 3, 1978, the song took off like Ravenscroft’s spiralling saxophone. Initially, Rafferty’s new label, United Artists were set against releasing Baker Street as the album’s lead-off single. Rafferty had originally written it for guitar, but when that didn’t soar – and at producer Hugh Murphy’s prompting – he summoned an unheralded session player, Raphael Ravenscroft to the studio to put it down instead on sax. That much seeped into the optimistic last lines of the song: ‘And when you wake up, it’s a new morning/The sun is shining it’s a new morning/And you’re going, you’re going home.’ These were given wings by the album’s most distinctive melody line and which burst up throughout the song. ![]() Baker Street was one of the last songs he wrote for the record and just as his contractual dispute was being settled. Rafferty was also blessed to be able to sing them in a voice that had both McCartney’s sweeter registers and Lennon’s raw passion. A Beatles nut, he fixated on strong melodies and the ten featured songs had that much in abundance. You can use the albums in this list to create a new list, re-rank it to fit your opinion, then publish it.The title of the album he eventually cut was also derived from his protracted spell commuting – City To City. ![]() This list has a variety of albums, like Night Owl and City to City, in it.This list of popular Gerry Rafferty CDs has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion. If you want to know, "What is the Best Gerry Rafferty album of all time?" or "What are the top Gerry Rafferty albums?" then this list will answer your questions. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums if you have a favorite Gerry Rafferty album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular. If you think the greatest Gerry Rafferty album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Gerry Rafferty singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. This Gerry Rafferty discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Gerry Rafferty albums can be found at the top of the list. List of the best Gerry Rafferty albums, including pictures of the album covers when available.
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