Gerry Rafferty in general

~ ~ So what’s this, you may well ask? A music review from the “mad cabbie”!!!! Am I seeing right? Well, believe it or believe it not, the only reason I have never written in this category before is because no matter how hard I try to attempt to get across what I want to convey, it all seems to come out all cock-eyed. But listening to one of my favourite singers on the CD-Rom last night while I surfed around dooyoo, I realised that I couldn’t put off the evil day any longer. ~ ~ A lot of you will probably remember a song from the late 1970’s called “Baker Street”, by a Scot’s singer called Gerry ...

Gerry Rafferty comes from the town of Paisley in Scotland and his musical roots owed much to the West of Scotland folk circuit in the late 1960s. It was here that he met Billy Connolly and improbable though it may seem they formed a duo called the Humblebums and released an album of the same name. It contained a nice little number called Shoeshine Boy which David Hamilton played to death on the BBC. Rafferty and Connolly split up quite quickly because basically Connolly couldn't sing and Rafferty went on to form Stealers Wheel with Joe Egan. They had a number of albums and a few top ten hits including the catchy and memorable "Stuck in the middle with ...