Baker Street
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N 51° 31.431 W 000° 09.504
30U E 697122 N 5711909
"Baker Street" a song made popular by Gerry Rafferty in 1978 and memorable for its saxaphone solo.
Waymark Code: WMBKYC
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/31/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Team Farkle 7
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Named after the famous London street of the same name, the song was included on Rafferty's second solo album, City to City, which was Rafferty's first release after the resolution of legal problems surrounding the formal breakup of his old band, Stealers Wheel in 1975. In the intervening three years, Rafferty had been unable to release any material due to disputes about the band's remaining contractual recording obligations.

Rafferty wrote the song during a period when he was trying to extricate himself from his Stealers Wheel contracts, and was regularly travelling between his family home near Glasgow and London, where he often stayed at a friend's flat in Baker Street. As Rafferty put it, "everybody was suing each other, so I spent a lot of time on the overnight train from Glasgow to London for meetings with lawyers. I knew a guy who lived in a little flat off Baker Street. We'd sit and chat or play guitar there through the night." The resolution of his legal and financial frustrations accounted for the exhilaration of the song's last verse: "When you wake up it's a new morning/ The sun is shining, it's a new morning/ You're going, you're going home."

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And, of course, everyone knows who lived at 221b Baker Street!
Musician: Gerry Rafferty

Name of Song: Baker Street

Relevant Verse:
Windin' your way down on Baker Street Light in your head and dead on your feet Well another crazy day You'll drink the night away And forget about everything This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people but it's got no soul And it's taking you so long To find out you were wrong When you thought it had everything

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