PigLick on 6/1/2011 at 03:11
no more drunk posting for me
Tocky on 6/1/2011 at 05:46
I remember buying the album hoping I would like something besides Baker Street. Nope. Toooo laid back. And now of course he's even more laid back.
And people can quit dying any damn time now because it's about to piss me off.
demagogue on 6/1/2011 at 06:05
Didn't know him. I'm happy to take the occasion to remember artists I like when they die though. The jazz bassist Charles Fambrough died this last Jan 1st and the jazz pianist Billy Taylor on Dec 30. Not something I thought I could post here (though to our credit, we could have a thread for Oscar Peterson.) But it was nice the jazz station could do retrospectives and play their music on those days.
Stitch on 6/1/2011 at 19:43
Can we please show a little respect to the man, "Baby Beluga" was a classic.
Fingernail on 6/1/2011 at 20:03
I never knew much about his life (except his career, collaboration with Billy Connolly etc.) but reading an obituary (he was basically an alcoholic with liver fatigue), the lyrics of Baker Street really leapt out at me since his death, particularly the lines after talking about "giving up the booze and the one night stands" and settling down in the country to "forget about everything", where he reflects:
"but you know he's gonna keep moving, you know he'll never stop moving, cos he's rolling, he's the rolling stone"
There's something so resigned, as if he knew even then that his life was headed in that direction.
Shug on 7/1/2011 at 03:59
Quote Posted by Aja
Although we do, apparently, care a fair bit about the death of some actor I've never seen in anything or even heard of.
WHAT
You haven't seen The Usual Suspects, Inception, Last of the Mohicans, or Romeo & Juliet?
stop watching so many french arthouse films
SD on 7/1/2011 at 04:24
Gerry Rafferty also wrote "Stuck in the Middle". Just in case anyone was still under the mistaken belief that they'd never heard any of his stuff.
theBlackman on 7/1/2011 at 07:46
Quote Posted by Fingernail
A MAN HAS DIED
june gloom on 7/1/2011 at 09:39
we'll keep that in mind
SubJeff on 7/1/2011 at 13:31
I think the only tracks of his I know are Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle.
I'd no idea about the connection between the songs and tbh I thought that Baker Street was just a one hit wonder. Do love the sax in it.
RIP
