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Baker Street Sax Player Raphael Ravenscroft Dead At 60

10/22/2014
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(Classic Rock) Raphael 'Raf' Ravenscroft, the saxophonist who played the riff on Gerry Rafferty's classic track Baker Street, has died at 60. He's thought to have suffered a heart attack at home in Devon after entering semi-retirement in 2012 due to ill health.

The respected session musician also appeared on Robert Plant's debut solo album Pictures At Eleven, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, and Mike Oldfield's Islands and Earth Moving. He also wrote books on sax technique.

Baker Street, from Rafferty's second solo album City to City, won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically And Lyrically in 1978. In 2010 it was recognized for having been played over 5,000,000 times.

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