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GERRY RAFFERTY ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

John Van Der Kiste

ISBN 978-1-78952-349-2

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Publication: 20 DECEMBER 2024
th

ISBN: 9781789523492
Price: £16.99

Binding: Paperback
Format: 210 x 148 mm

Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages

Thema: AVLP Popular Music
Comp title: 9781789522600 Eagles On Track

• Best known for the massive hit singles ‘Stuck In
The Middle With You’ and the perennial hit ‘Baker
Street’
• A hugely successful Scottish singer-songwriter
• Albums City To City and follow-up Night Owl
were both top ten hit albums in the UK

Sometimes acclaimed as Scotland's finest-ever singer-
songwriter, Gerry Rafferty was born in 1947. After developing
a passion for several genres of popular music during
childhood, from traditional folk and classical to rock'n'roll and
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ the early 1960s beat boom, he played in a couple of bands
during his teens. After joining The Humblebums, an acoustic
John Van der Kiste has published over a hundred books, mostly duo with future stand-up comedian Billy Connolly, and
historical biography and music, including titles for Sonicbond on The releasing a solo album Can I Have My Money Back?, he
Rolling Stones, Eagles, Mott The Hoople and Ian Hunter, Free and formed Stealers Wheel, whose debut spawned the
Bad Company, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. He has reviewed transatlantic top ten hit ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’. Initially
books and records for the local and national press and fanzines, and a five-piece band and finally a duo, they split in 1975.
written booklet notes for CD reissues from EMI and other labels. A
former DJ and performer with various groups, he also co-wrote one He resumed his solo career three years later with the single
track on Riff Regan’s Milestones, and played harmonica on London's ‘Baker Street’ and accompanying album City To City, the
The Hell For Leather Mob. He lives in Devon, U.K global successes of which proved impossible to surpass.
Although he disliked many aspects of the music business,
rarely toured, never played live in America, and became
increasingly reclusive in later years, he released eight more
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP albums before his death in 2011, with a posthumous collection
T: 01404 515050 Rest In Blue following ten years later.
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com

Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. This book examines in detail all his recorded songs, some of
Email: orders@combook.co.uk them quite starkly autobiographical in content, from every
Phone: 01892 837171 stage of his career.
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without notice. 13/06/2024