Baker Street (song)

"Baker Street"
Solid centre variant of the 1978 UK single
Single by Gerry Rafferty
from the album City to City
B-side"Big Change in the Weather"
Released3 February 1978
Recorded1977
StudioChipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK
Genre
Length6:06 (album version)
4:10 (single version)
5:56 (US 12-inch promo single version)
6:29 (1989 “Right Down The Line” compilation remix version)
LabelUnited Artists
Songwriter(s)Gerry Rafferty
Producer(s)Hugh Murphy, Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty singles chronology
"City to City"
(1977)
"Baker Street"
(1978)
"Right Down the Line"
(1978)
Music video
"Baker Street" on YouTube
Audio sample

"Baker Street" is a single by the Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically[2] and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere. The song is known for its saxophone riff, written by Rafferty and performed by Raphael Ravenscroft.

  1. ^ Molanphy, Chris (31 July 2021). "What a Fool Believes Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  2. ^ Lister, David, Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion, The Independent, 28 May 1994