{"id":4704,"date":"2014-10-21T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/21\/raphael-ravenscroft-baker-street-saxophonist-dies-aged-60\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:21:32","slug":"raphael-ravenscroft-baker-street-saxophonist-dies-aged-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/10\/21\/raphael-ravenscroft-baker-street-saxophonist-dies-aged-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphael Ravenscroft, Baker Street saxophonist, dies aged 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flexible-content-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3-images.myspacecdn.com\/images01\/107\/a0e211fb59e45ff15f1780f305b80299\/300x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"326\" \/><br \/>The musician behind one of the most recognisable saxophone solos \u2013 on Gerry Rafferty\u2019s hit Baker Street \u2013 has died aged 60. Raphael Ravenscroft, who found fame almost overnight following the  release of the 1978 track, went on to work with music icons including  Pink Floyd, Abba and Marvin Gaye. More recently he worked as a session  musician for pop artists Daft Punk and Duffy.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He died following a suspected heart attack early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ravenscroft is reported to have been paid \u00a327 for the Baker Street  session in the form of a cheque that bounced. The hit reached No 3 in  the UK charts and No 2 in the US, and Rafferty was said to have earned  \u00a380,000 a year from royalties.<\/p>\n<p>In a radio interview in 2011, Ravenscroft said hearing the song  annoyed him. \u201cI\u2019m irritated because it\u2019s out of tune. Yeah, it\u2019s flat.  By enough of a degree that it irritates me at best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had previously appeared on one disco album by Maxine Nightingale,  called Right Back Where We Started From, in 1976, as an arranger but  emerged as one of pop rock\u2019s most prominent sax players.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 Ravenscroft, a former tutor of music at York College,  published a successful instruction book, The Complete Saxophone Player.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he recorded a tribute for Rafferty\u2019s funeral, called  Forgiveness, which combined his saxophone playing with the voices of  Grammy-nominated choir Tenebrae.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Ravenscroft, of Exeter, Devon, organised a charity gala  concert in memory of a local schoolgirl who died after falling from a  wall in May this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musician behind one of the most recognisable saxophone solos \u2013 on Gerry Rafferty\u2019s hit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}