The Gerry Rafferty Interview
Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, December 1975
GERRY RAFFERTY rarely comes up in interviews, seldom works on the road and is in London even less often. And yet when it comes to writing tasteful pop songs – songs that you remember long after they've dropped out of the Top Twenty or whatever – he's just about the best and consequently the most underrated in Britain.
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