Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Night Owl is the third studio album by Scottish musician Gerry Rafferty. [2] It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City.While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve platinum status in Canada, gold in the United Kingdom, and gold status in the U.S.
Rafferty grew up in a council house in the town's Ferguslie Park, in Underwood Lane, and was educated at St Mirin's Academy. [4] His Irish-born father, an alcoholic, was a miner and lorry driver who died when Rafferty was 16. [3] Rafferty learned both Irish and Scottish folk songs as a boy. He recalled, "My father was Irish, so growing up in ...
Gerry Rafferty chronology; One More Dream: The Very Best of Gerry Rafferty (1995) Baker Street ... "Days Gone Down (Still Got The Light In Your Eyes)" – 6:32
The song discusses themes of alcohol abuse, [3] including autobiographical reflections delivered in the third person. It has been described by Rafferty's estate as a "memorable, top 30 melody with a pitiless self-portrait of an artist using alcohol to blur the edges of a world in which what is real, and valuable, is sometimes effusive".
Right Down the Line: The Best of Gerry Rafferty: Released: 13 November 1989 [14] Label: EMI USA; Formats: Digital download, CD ... "Days Gone Down" ...
Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) R. Right Down the Line; S. Stuck in the Middle with You; T. The Tourist (Gerry Rafferty song) W. Wastin' Away
City to City is the second solo studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released on 20 January 1978 by United Artists Records.It was Rafferty's first solo release in six years—and first release of any kind since 1975—due to his tenure in the band Stealers Wheel and subsequent legal proceedings which prevented Rafferty from releasing any new solo recordings for the next ...
"Stuck in the Middle with You" (sometimes known as "Stuck in the Middle") is a song written by Scottish musicians Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan and performed by their band Stealers Wheel. The band performed the song on the BBC's Top of the Pops in May 1973, and the song charted at No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart.