my goal is to blow your mind with random facts about music from Wikipedia.

You know him.  He did “Baker Street,” that song with a saxophone chorus that probably gave birth to the ’80s saxophones-in-rock fad.  (EDIT: Whoa, I’m right!  “The eight-bar alto saxophone solo led to a resurgence described as “the ‘Baker Street’ phenomenon.”^[1] There followed a jump in saxophone sales, and a noticeable increase in the use of the instrument in mainstream pop music and TV advertising.”)

But did you know that he was one of the founding members of Stealers Wheel (y’know, the band who did “Stuck in the Middle With You,” not Bob Dylan like you probably thought)?

Wikipedia also alleges that Gerry Rafferty has become considerably more, uh, interesting in his old age:

The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported that Rafferty was asked to leave the Westbury Hotel in London during July 2008. This report stated that the hotel manager had claimed that other residents were distressed by his habit of relieving himself in various corners of the hotel and that his suite was also in a disgraceful and unusable condition.^[5] He then checked himself into St Thomas’ Hospital suffering from a chronic liver condition. The same report claimed that on 1 August 2008, Rafferty had disappeared, leaving his belongings behind, and that the hospital had filed a missing persons report.^[5] However, this was rebutted by the Metropolitan Police who stated that no such missing persons report existed.^[9]

After unconfirmed sightings and unauthenticated reports that he was in contact with his family, on 17 February 2009 The Guardian reported that Rafferty, “who has battled alcoholism for years”, was in hiding in the south of England, being cared for by a friend.^[10]