Music of Scotland

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Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985.

As of 2012, Deacon Blue's total album sales stood at six million, with twelve UK Top 40 singles, along with two UK number one albums.

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Nightcrawlers, a Scottish house music project, formed in 1992.

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Gerry Rafferty (R.I.P.) An extremely beautiful and poignant song about the trappings of life in London.



Gerry said he called the song Baker Street as he walking along this famous street when the song came into his head, which is quite close and within walking distance to where I live.

Baker St. is in the expensive Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in Central London.

Gerry Rafferty said he could've named the song after any street in LDN - as the song itself is about life in the big hectic city and a yearning to escape back to the countryside. (Many Londoners left their hamlets and villages and small towns to find work and opportunities in the big city.)

A lot of tourists have subsequently visited Baker Street and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (an interesting little place which I visited once,) as a result of this song.

U.S. rock band 'Foo Fighters' made a rock/metal cover-version of Baker Street, but I much prefer the original. I love the beautiful saxophone parts in this song.

Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid out the street in the 18th century. The street is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who lived at a fictional 221B Baker Street address on the north of the street. The area was originally high class residential, but now is mainly occupied by commercial premises.

Gerald Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish rock singer-songwriter. His solo hits in the late 1970s included "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and "Night Owl", as well as "Stuck in the Middle with You", recorded with the band Stealers Wheel in 1973.

Rafferty was born into a working-class family in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His mother taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs when he was a boy; later, he was influenced by the music of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. He joined the folk-pop group The Humblebums in 1969. After they disbanded in 1971, he recorded his first solo album, Can I Have My Money Back? Rafferty and Joe Egan formed the group Stealers Wheel in 1972 and produced several hits, most notably "Stuck in the Middle with You" and "Star". In 1978, he recorded his second solo album, City to City, which included "Baker Street", his most popular song.