Gerry Rafferty

RIP Gerry Rafferty, Whose ‘Baker Street’ Changed the Sax Solo | Rolling Stone Culture | Rob Sheffield
RIP Gerry Rafferty, Whose ‘Baker Street’ Changed the Sax Solo | Rolling Stone Culture | Rob Sheffield
RIP Gerry Rafferty, Whose ‘Baker Street’ Changed the Sax Solo | Rolling Stone Culture | Rob Sheffield
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic "Baker Street" has to be the Ulysses of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.