Baker Street (song)
| "Baker Street" | ||||
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Solid centre variant of the 1978 UK single | ||||
| Single by Gerry Rafferty | ||||
| from the album City to City | ||||
| B-side | "Big Change in the Weather" | |||
| Released | 3 February 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||
| Studio | Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 6:06 (album version) 4:10 (single version) 5:56 (US 12-inch promo single version) 6:29 (1989 “Right Down The Line” compilation remix version) | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Producer(s) | Hugh Murphy, Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Gerry Rafferty singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Baker Street" on YouTube | ||||
| Audio | ||||
| "Baker Street" (album version) on YouTube | ||||
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"Baker Street" is a single by the Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere. The song is known for its saxophone riff, written by Rafferty and performed by Raphael Ravenscroft.