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His daughter Martha took the recordings her father made and combined them with some demos going back to the 1970s to compile this release. [2] The younger Rafferty chose to complete this album as a tribute to her father and emphasized traditional music for this collection, [ 1 ] while also including a majority of the tracks the elder Rafferty ...
Rafferty grew up in a council house in the town's Ferguslie Park, in Underwood Lane, and was educated at St Mirin's Academy. [4] His Irish-born father, an alcoholic, was a miner and lorry driver who died when Rafferty was 16. [3] Rafferty learned both Irish and Scottish folk songs as a boy. He recalled, "My father was Irish, so growing up in ...
The band signed for independent label, Transatlantic Records, and after recording one album (1969's First Collection of Merry Melodies), Harvey left the trio and Connolly and Rafferty went on to release two more albums: The New Humblebums (1969) and Open up the Door (1970). Connolly's time with Rafferty possibly influenced his future comedy ...
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"Baker Street" is a single by the Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically [2] and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere.
Yevgeniya Simonova as Jill Hart, Rafferty's secretary and mistress; Larisa Malevannaya as Martha, Rafferty's wife; Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Tommy Farrichetti, gangster, Rafferty's friend; Alexander Kaidanovsky as Ames, attorney (character based on Robert F. Kennedy) Vytautas Paukštė as Hedn Bosworth, a businessman, Rafferty's childhood friend
Rafferty, derived from Ó Raifeartaigh, is an Irish surname, and may refer to: People. Anne Rafferty (born 1950), English jurist; Anne Marie Rafferty (born 1958 ...
O'Rourke was born in Dublin, the son of Francis P. O'Rourke and Martha Rafferty. He was educated at the Christian Brothers-run O'Brien Institute, Dublin and subsequently at Dublin Municipal School of Art. From 1905 to 1916 he worked with a number of private architectural practices in Limerick and Dublin. His architectural output while in ...