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Rafferty, Gerry - Night Owl
Identifier
028796
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Remembering Gerry Rafferty , rock's most reluctant star by Paul Rees (Classic Rock) January 04, 2018 Classic Rock
Baker Street and City To City turned Rafferty into a pop star. And with Hugh Murphy, he produced a second hit album, Night Owl, in 1979, which with its title track and Get It Right Next Time matched the mercurial Steely Dan for sophisticated pop perfection. Rafferty himself was not so clear cut. In some respects he pushed against the tide, most obviously in refusing all entreaties to tour behind either record in the US. On the other hand, he fully enjoyed the fruits of his success. He bought a rambling farmhouse and three-hundred acres of land in rural Kent and a grand Queen Anne house in London’s upmarket Hampstead. Required on one occasion to travel to America, he flew by Concorde.
“He liked having money and status, and why shouldn’t he have done?” considers Barbara Dickson. “He had an image of himself being almost like an American rock star and that was okay. He was always well off and drove nice cars, and coming from a very humble upbringing he felt that was an achievement I’m sure.”
“Sometimes he would want to sit in the bar at the airport, miss his flight and just get on another a couple of hours later,” furthers Michael Grey. “That’s the main thing I feel bad about, although I’m not sure what I could have done really. When he would say, ‘Oh, let’s not go to the gate for this one, let have another drink,’ it never occurred to me that he was on the road to becoming an alcoholic. Everybody drank and took drugs in those days, but Gerry wasn’t nearly such a nice man when he’d had a certain amount of whisky.”
A description of the experience
Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl
Night comes down and finds you alone
In a space and time of your own
Lost in dreams in a world full of shadows
Down the street the neon light shines
Offering refuge and hope to the blind
Who stumble in with no thought of tomorrow
Yes I get lonely when the sun gets low
And I end up looking for some winner goal
Yes I should know better but I cant say no
Oh no no nono nono no
The light are low when the music is loud
You watch yourself as you play to the crowd
One more face in a palace of mirrors
One more drink your sailin away
One more dream but its looking okay
One more time to watch the flow of the river
Yes I get lonely when the sun gets low
And I end up looking for some winner goal
Yes I should know better but I cant say no
Oh no no nono no no no no no no
Yes I get lonely when the sun gets low
And I end up looking for some winner goal
Yes I should know better but I cant say no
Oh no no
Oh no no no
No no no no no no no no no no