"Night Owl" is a 1979 album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City. While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve Gold status in North America and the United Kingdom. The title song reached No. 5 on the UK charts. The album made the UK Top 10. The album was recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, England. "Night Owl" is a 1979 album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City. While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve Gold status in North America and the United Kingdom. The title song reached No. 5 on the UK charts. The album made the UK Top 10. The album was recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, England. false 2022-12-21 09:17:56 Night Owl 8 2007 2007-01-01 2007-01-01 52 Aor Pop Rock Rock Smooth Jazz Soft Rock 118980 2157968 2d80a281-cf83-3601-9bea-321f56fdf684 563201cb-721c-4cfb-acca-c1ba69e3d1fb 395e1107-2f92-3f17-af8a-000e5b84951e /media/data/media4/Music/Gerry Rafferty/Night Owl (1979)/folder.jpg Gerry Rafferty AlbumArtist Gerry Rafferty Artist Gerry Rafferty Gerry Rafferty 1 Days Gone Down 06:32 2 Night Owl 06:11 3 The Way That You Do It 05:09 4 Why Won't You Talk to Me 03:59 5 Get It Right the Next Time 04:44 6 Take the Money and Run 05:50 7 Family Tree 05:58 8 Already Gone 04:56 9 The Tourist 04:14 10 It's Gonna Be a Long Night 04:25 Gerald Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was a founding member of Stealers Wheel, whose biggest hit was "Stuck in the Middle with You" in 1973. His solo hits in the late 1970s included "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", and "Night Owl". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His mother taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs when he was a boy; later, he was influenced by the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan. He joined the folk-pop group the Humblebums (of which Billy Connolly was a member) in 1969. After they disbanded in 1971, he recorded his first solo album, Can I Have My Money Back? Rafferty and Joe Egan formed the group Stealers Wheel in 1972 and produced several hits, most notably "Stuck in the Middle with You" and "Star". In 1978, he recorded his second solo album, City to City, which included "Baker Street", his most popular song. A heavy drinker for much of his life, Rafferty died from liver failure in 2011.