SOYR #7 Gerry Rafferty Traditional Cache

Stars Of Yacht Rock #7- Gerry Rafferty, is the seventh of this series, which is becoming a significant urban power trail.

What is Yacht Rock you ask?  Its the smooth lighter rock from the period of the mid 70's to the mid 80's.  

Gerry Rafferty (1947-2011) was a folk-rock musician from Scotland.  He was in Stealers Wheel, which had a huge hit with "Stuck in the Middle With You" ( remember the scene from Reseroir Dogs, anyone?).  As a solo artist, he had hits with "Right Down the Line", "Home and Dry", "Take The Money and Run", "Days Gone Down" and "Get It Right Next Time".   However, Rafferty had his best and biggest hit with "Baker Street"

"Baker Street" remains a mainstay of soft-rock radio airplay and, in October 2010, it was recognised by the BMI for surpassing 5 million plays worldwide.  In a 2003 interview with The Sun (Scotland), Rafferty revealed just how profitable his biggest song had been: "Baker Street still makes me about £80,000 a year. It's been a huge earner for me. I must admit, I could live off that song alone".  Rafferty reputedly loathed the 1992 dance music cover version of "Baker Street" by Undercover, but it earned him another £1.5 million, selling around three million copies in Europe and America. He never let "Baker Street" be used for advertising, despite lucrative offers.

The lyrics of "Baker Street" reflected Rafferty's disenchantment with certain elements of the music industry. This was elaborated on by music journalist Paul Gambaccini for BBC World News:.

“His song "Baker Street" was about how uncomfortable he felt in the star system, and what do you know, it was a giant world hit. The album City to City went to No. 1 in America, and suddenly he found that as a result of his protest, he was a bigger star than ever. And he now had more of what he didn't like. And although he had a few more hit singles in the United States, by 1980 it was basically all over, and when I say 'it', I mean basically his career, because he just was not comfortable with this.”  Thank you to Wikipedia for this information.

The cache itself, is a small pill bottle cammoed to it's surroundings.  It contains just a log, so BYOP.