Baker Street (song)
"Baker Street" is a song written by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty and issued as a single by him in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically[2] and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere. The arrangement is known for its saxophone riff.[3]
For other uses, see Baker Street (disambiguation)."Baker Street"
"Big Change in the Weather"
3 February 1978
1977
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)
Hugh Murphy, Gerry Rafferty
Legacy[edit]
The song was cited by guitarist Slash in 1987 as an influence on his guitar solo in "Sweet Child o' Mine".[58]
Canadian rock musician A.C. Newman cited the song as an inspiration for his album Shut Down the Streets (2012).[59]
The song is featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto V, as part of Los Santos Rock Radio.[60]
It is also heard in the Happy Endings episode "Cocktails and Dreams", (S02E16) in which Penny's dream involves a fingerpicked-guitar version of the saxophone riff., as well as in the closing scene of "Lisa's Sax" (S09E04), an episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa Simpson performs a brief rendition of the hook on a saxophone before the music segues into Rafferty's recording.[61]
The song also features prominently in episodes of Rick and Morty and A.P. Bio.
Beginning in the 2023-24 Scottish Premiership season, St. Mirren F.C. (based in Rafferty's hometown of Paisley) play the song pre-game.