Gerry Rafferty Baker Street

"Baker Street" music video is performed by Gerry Rafferty. The song won the 1978 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. The single reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 2 for six consecutive weeks in the US. It reached number one in Cash Box and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 The arrangement is known for its saxophone riff.

Named after Baker Street in London, the song was included on Rafferty's second solo album, City to City (1978), which was the Scottish singer-songwriter's first release after the resolution of legal problems surrounding the break-up of his old band, Stealers Wheel, in 1975. In the intervening three years, Rafferty had been unable to release any material because of disputes about the band's remaining contractual recording obligations.

Rafferty wrote the song during a period when he was trying to extricate himself from his Stealers Wheel contracts. He was regularly traveling between his Scottish family home in Paisley and London, where he recalled often staying at a friend's flat in Baker Street: "Everybody was suing each other, so I spent a lot of time on the overnight train from Glasgow to London for meetings with lawyers. I knew a guy who lived in a little flat off Baker Street. We'd sit and chat or play guitar there through the night."

Baker Street Personnel is Gerry Rafferty – lead vocals, rhythm guitar; Raphael Ravenscroft – alto and soprano saxophones; Hugh Burns – lead guitar; Nigel Jenkins – rhythm guitar; Tommy Eyre – synthesizer, electric and acoustic piano; Gary Taylor – bass; Henry Spinetti – drums; Glen Le Fleur – congas; Graham Preskett – string arrangements. Source: Wikipedia

Lyrics… This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
And it's taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything.
… You used to think that it was so easy.
You used to say that it was so easy.
But you're tryin', you're tryin' now.
… Another year and then you'd be happy.
Just one more year and then you'd be happy.
But you're cryin', you're cryin' now.

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