RIP Raf Ravenscroft, saxophonist on Baker Street

[Big Ears]

I've just read on the BBC News site that Raphael 'Raf' Ravenscroft, who played the distinctive saxophone melody on Gerry Rafferty's brilliant Baker Street, died of a suspected heart attack on Sunday 19th October 2014 aged only 60. He also worked with Maxine Nightingale, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Robert Plant, Mike Oldfield, Abba, Marvin Gaye, Daft Punk and Duffy. With his work on Baker Street in 1978, Ravenscroft re-popularised the saxophone in rock music and sales of the instrument increased.