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1	[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/220px-gerry_rafferty_4742.jpg]]
2	->"''Winding your way down on Baker Street\
3	Light in your head and dead on your feet\
4	Well, another crazy day, you'll drink the night away\
5	And you forget about everything''"
6	-->"Baker Street"
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8	Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a UsefulNotes/{{Scot\|land}}tish singer-songwriter probably best known for his songs "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", and (with the band Stealers Wheel) "Stuck in the Middle with You". Make sure you spell his name correctly, e.g. "Gerry" not 'Jerry", but "if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time".
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10	!! "These tropes are going, they're going home":
11	* CelebrityIsOverrated: He was never comfortable with the fame side of the music business, to put it mildly - he was only interested in writing and performing music and explicitly rejected stardom. His friend Creator/BillyConnolly said, "I wanted success and fame and I got it, to a degree. Gerry wanted respect. He wanted his talent to be respected. He wanted his songs to be respected. And he certainly got that."
12	* CoolShades: His tinted glasses were one of his trademarks.
13	* CoverVersion: Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life, Woman", Music/JohnLennon's "Out the Blue".
14	%%* DrowningMySorrows: "Baker Street".
15	* HiddenTrack: "The Grinches," on ''Another World''.
16	* LocationSong: "Baker Street", about the London street. It's a melancholic jazz song.
17	* UsefulNotes/{{London}}: "Baker Street" was inspired by the real place.
18	* MusicalPastiche: "Stuck in the Middle with You" (a Stealers Wheel song that Rafferty cowrote and sang lead on) is a Music/BobDylan pastiche that is so dead-on it's been continually misattributed to Dylan ever since its release.
19	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Sleepwalking'' introduced synthesizers and drum machines into his work.
20	* OneWomanSong: "Mary Skeffington" [[note]] Gerry's mum. [[/note]]
21	%%* SecondPersonNarration: "Baker Street"
22	* SelfTitledAlbum: 1974's ''Gerry Rafferty'', which is primarily a compilation of songs he recorded as a member of the Humblebums with Creator/BillyConnolly at the start of his career.
23	%%* SillyLoveSongs: "Right Down the Line".
24	%%* SomethingBlues: "New Street Blues".
25	%%* TheSomethingSong: "Johnny's Song".

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