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Radio 4,1 min

"He would find a little part of the melody"

Soul Music

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Gerry Rafferty's daughter, Martha, recalls hearing her father writing Baker Street in the attic of their Glasgow home; the sound of him picking-out the tune on his acoustic guitar would drift through the push-up attic-door, filling the rest of the house with what would become his biggest hit.

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