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Raphael Ravenscroft was an English saxophonist, composer, and session musician. He was best known for his saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit single "Baker Street". He was born on September 1954 in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Ravenscroft was a self-taught musician, and began playing the saxophone at the age of 15. He went on to become a session musician, playing on albums by artists such as Pink Floyd, Robert Palmer, and Supertramp. He also composed music for television and film, including the theme for the BBC series "The Tripods". Ravenscroft's most famous work was his saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit single "Baker Street". The solo was recorded in one take and was not credited on the original single. Ravenscroft was eventually paid a one-off fee of £27 for his work. At the time of his death in 2014, Ravenscroft was estimated to have a net worth of $1 million.

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Occupation Musician · composer · author
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 1954-09-
Birthday 1954-09-
Birthplace Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Date of death October 19, 2014,
Died Place Exeter, Devon, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2014

In 2014, Ravenscroft went to Belgium to help and set up the saxophone project Sax4Pax with the company Adolphe Sax & Cie.

He married and divorced twice, and separated from his third wife in 2009. His daughter is the artist Scarlett Raven. Ravenscroft died on 19 October 2014 at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, aged 60, of a suspected heart attack.

2012

In 2012, Ravenscroft created the music for a series of films featuring photographer Don McCullin, and during 2011–2012 composed for several major advertising campaigns around the world. In summer 2012 he took a break due to ill-health, and moved back to Devon.

2011

In a radio interview in 2011, Ravenscroft said that his performance on the song annoyed him. "I'm irritated because it's out of tune", he said. "Yeah, it's flat. By enough of a degree that it irritates me at best." Ravenscroft mostly refused to play "Baker Street" during interviews. The last time Ravenscroft played "Baker Street" was in the summer of 2014 when he organised a charity gala concert in Exeter for Nicole Hartup, a 12-year-old city schoolgirl who had died in a fall.

In 2011, he recorded a tribute to commemorate the funeral of Gerry Rafferty called "Forgiveness", which combined his saxophone playing with the voices of Grammy-nominated choir Tenebrae.

2010

Ravenscroft told the BBC's The One Show in 2010 that he was only paid £27.50 for the "Baker Street" session, which was the Musicians' Union rate at the time. It has been (falsely) reported that the cheque bounced and that it was kept on the wall of Ravenscroft's solicitors; in contrast, the song is said to have earned Rafferty £80,000 a year in royalties.

In 2010, Ravenscroft played on albums and on sessions with Duffy, Mary Hopkin and Jamie Hartman. In 2011–12, Ravenscroft contributed to the album Propeller by Grice.

1990

Ravenscroft wrote several books on saxophone technique, including The Complete Saxophone Player (1990).

1983

From his breakthrough with "Baker Street" he went on to perform with Pink Floyd (The Final Cut, 1983), ABBA and Marvin Gaye. Other Ravenscroft performing credits include work with America, Maxine Nightingale, Daft Punk, Kim Carnes, The Only Ones, Mike Oldfield, Chris Rea, Robert Plant, Brand X, Hazel O'Connor and Bonnie Tyler. In 1979, he released the solo album Her Father Didn't Like Me, Anyway (CBS Portrait JR 35683). In 1983, Ravenscroft released the track "Maxine" which gained airplay, but performed poorly on the charts. In 1987, he was credited, along with Max Early and Johnny Patrick for the new theme to the Central Television soap opera Crossroads.

1978

In January 1978, Scottish singer-musician Gerry Rafferty released his first solo material since 1972 and first material of any kind since the demise of Stealers Wheel in 1975. As a then-unheralded session musician, Ravenscroft was asked to play the saxophone on the album City to City (1978). His contribution included the sax riff on the best-known song from the album and of Rafferty's career, "Baker Street". The song was an international hit, charting at number 3 in the UK and number 2 in the US. "Baker Street" was reported in 2010 as having received 5 million air plays worldwide to date. City to City reached number 1 in the US album charts and went platinum. In the UK the album reached number 6 and went gold.

1977

Ravenscroft worked with Rafferty from 1977 to 1982. As well as the songs he worked on for City to City he contributed to Rafferty's next two albums, Night Owl (1979) on which he played the lyricon on the title track of the album, and follow-up album Snakes and Ladders (1980).

1972

While his place of birth is disputed, the England and Wales Birth Index places it at Stoke-on-Trent. He was the eldest son of Trevor Ravenscroft, author of the 1972 occult book The Spear of Destiny, and spent much of his young life in Dumfries, where his father lived.

1968

While Ravenscroft falsely claimed to have written the riff for "Baker Street", an almost identical riff had actually been written ten years earlier for the 1968 Steve Marcus jazz track "Half a Heart". Gary Burton, a musician friend of Marcus, said Ravenscroft must have heard the "Half a Heart" riff before replicating it on "Baker Street". Earlier demo recordings for "Baker Street" have the same refrain, played by Rafferty on guitar, which were recorded before Ravenscroft became involved in the sessions for the song, also indicating that Ravenscroft could not have written the melody.

1954

Raphael Ravenscroft (4 June 1954 – 19 October 2014) was a British musician, composer and author.