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<p>Music stars and comedian Billy Connolly have led tributes to singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, best known for his 1978 hit Baker Street, who has died at the age of 63.</p>
<p>The Scot is said to have died peacefully after a long illness at his home in Dorset on Tuesday, with daughter Martha by his side.</p>
<p>Baker Street, with its distinctive saxophone solo, reached number 3 in the UK charts and no 2 in the US.</p>
<p>Rafferty, who split from wife Carla in the 1990s, was said to have earned £80,000 a year from the royalties on that song alone.</p>
<p>Connolly, who performed with Rafferty in the past, said: &#8220;Gerry Rafferty was a hugely talented songwriter and singer who will be greatly missed.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was privileged to have spent my formative years working with Gerry and there remained a strong bond of friendship between us that lasted until his untimely death.</p>
<p>&#8220;Gerry had extraordinary gifts and his premature passing deprives the world of a true genius.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rafferty was born in Paisley near Glasgow on April 16 1947. He cut his teeth as a busker and also appeared with Connolly&#8217;s folk group The Humblebums.</p>
<p>He fell out with the comedian when Connolly&#8217;s jokes began to take up more time at the band&#8217;s concerts, and he walked out in 1970.</p>
<p>Two years later he formed Stealers Wheel, with whom he scored another huge hit in 1972 with Stuck In The Middle With You. The outfit ended in acrimony in 1975.</p>
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