100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #79: Gerry Rafferty, A Dangerous Age

With Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty is assured of musical immortality, but his was not a pleasant journey.  Rafferty was fundamentally unsuited to commercial success and loathed the whole circus of fame and celebrity.  Ultimately, that success played a part in the alcoholism which killed him in 2011 aged only 63.  Much of his work is shot through with pragmatism bordering on cynicism; none more so than this great foot-tapper of a song, A Dangerous Age.

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