When was baker street written

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Album: City To City Charted: 3 2. This is the most sentimental of all Gerry Rafferty's songs. It is about a man who dreams of owning a house and living away from his neighborhood, but he is a drunk, and cannot achieve that goal.

He drinks to forget what he doesn't have, and never realizes he's a rolling stone with no direction. Baker Street is a real street in London ; Rafferty often stayed with a friend who lived there. The song was the Scottish singer's first release after the resolution of legal problems surrounding the acrimonious breakup of his band Stealers Wheel in In the intervening three years, Rafferty had been unable to release any material due to disputes about the band's remaining contractual recording obligations, and his friend's Baker Street flat was a convenient place to stay as he tried to extricate himself from his Stealers Wheel contracts.

Rafferty explained to Martin Chilton at the Daily Telegraph : "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. As of November , the video has over The track is recognised by the BMI for surpassing five million performances worldwide, and has also been given Gold certification on two different occasions.

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Grammy nominations, too. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. But first, the sax. You can hear the audio of the earlier tune in the clip below and judge for yourself.

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