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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".
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.
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 ...
Several of Rafferty's solo albums, including City to City and Night Owl, and parts of Snakes and Ladders and Sleepwalking, were recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios [31] Subsequent albums, such as Snakes and Ladders (1980), Sleepwalking (1982), and North and South (1988), fared less well, perhaps due partly to Rafferty's longstanding ...
The Best of Gerry Rafferty: ... City to City "Baker Street" 1978 3: 1: 4: 9: 3: 16: 4: 2: 2: 4 BPI: Platinum [11] ... Night Owl "Days Gone Down" ...
Ravenscroft worked with Rafferty from 1977 to 1982. As well as the songs he worked on for City to City, he contributed to Rafferty's next two albums, Night Owl (1979) on which he played the lyricon on the title track of the album, and follow-up album Snakes and Ladders (1980). [13]
Rafferty's demo, with the riff played on guitar, was released on the 2011 reissue of City to City. [15] [9] In the liner notes, Rafferty's collaborator Rab Noakes wrote: "Let's hope [the demo] will, at last, silence all who keep on asserting that the saxophone player came up with the melody line." [15]
Snakes and Ladders is the fourth album by Gerry Rafferty.It was released in 1980, following the success of his previous two albums, City to City and Night Owl.The album charted at No. 15 in the UK but only reached No. 61 in the US, while singles achieved #54UK ("Bring It All Home"), and #67UK / #54US ("The Royal Mile").
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