Songs that Changed Music: Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

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“Baker Street” was the lead single from Rafferty’s 1978 solo album City to City – his first release since the breakup of his band Stealers Wheel in 1975 and his first solo release in 6 years. The song shot to the top of the charts, peaking at the number two spot in the US, and remained there for several weeks. Despite this phenomenal success, Rafferty cancelled his plans for a US Tour. His daughter, Martha, attributed this to his deeply introverted personality and wariness of the music industry: “He was planning a tour of America but was scared by the momentum he was generating and the kind of people his success attracted” she told Daily Record in 2011.

Rafferty’s haunting melody captures a very relatable sense of burnout and frustration that extend far beyond the specific circumstances in the context of which they were written. This is further heightened by Rafferty’s co-producer on the album, Hugh Murphy, who took particular attention to Rafferty’s vocals on the track. Murphy explained: “The voice is the most important thing…It’s all a bunch of chords and people making noise and, when you put the voice on, all of a sudden it comes into focus.”

While Rafferty’s perfectly articulated vocal part plays an important role in the song’s success, the song’s wailing saxophone riff is the track’s most iconic element. The saxophone part on the record is performed by Raphael Ravenscroft – whose expressive and emotional playing made the 8-bar riff one of the most famous saxophone lines in music history.

There has been some controversy surrounding the riff’s authorship, as Ravenscroft claimed to have created the saxophone solo’s melody, filling in the empty “gaps” of Rafferty’s song. However that claim was refuted in 2011 when a demo recording of the song – recorded prior to Ravenscroft joining the sessions – was released. In the demo, the saxophone melody is clearly present and fully-formed, only it is performed by Rafferty on guitar.

“Baker Street” and the City to City album was recorded at Chipping Norton Recording studio in Oxfordshire, England. The studio was built out of a former school house and recorded several well-known bands and artists including, Steve Winwood, Jack Bruce, Duran Duran, Judas Priest, and Rafferty’s close friend, Barbara Dickson. Radiohead’s hit track “Creep” was also recorded at Chipping Norton.

In 1977 – the same year that Rafferty came in to record City to City – the studio upgraded its facilities, bringing in American acoustician John Storyk to redesign the space. It housed a MCI JH-100 24-track recorder, and a 30 x 24 Trident A-Range mixer. Hugh Murphy co-produced the album with Rafferty, and Declan O’Doherty was the engineer.
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