Wednesday, January 5, 2011

gerry rafferty, 1947-2011

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i'll let everybody else in the blogosphere and elsewhere posthumously pee down both legs over stuck in the middle and baker street.

me?  i'll focus instead on a couple far more obscure songs which first made me suspect (a) how talented this guy really was





and (b) how he probably idealized his childhood just like me [steamboat row, in the following clip]





[which second point would only be confirmed when i read this obit earlier today]

RIP, you talented, tortured, drunken soul.

2 comments:

Will said...

I've always been much more into classical/opera than rock but there were some rockers I adored. I loved Rafferty's work, it was real music.

noblesavage said...

Well, perhaps you had something in common with the guy then, huh?

I rarely think that happy people make good art. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just really haven't seen it really.