Singer Gerry Rafferty dies at 63

Gerry Rafferty, a singer best known for the songs “Baker Street,” and “Stuck in the Middle With You,” has died of a reported liver ailment at the age of 63.

The Scottish-born Rafferty’s biggest successes were in the 70s, although he released an album as recently as 2000. He was perhaps better known in his later years for problems with alcohol, including a publicized incident at a “posh London hotel” in 2008. He was hospitalized in November of last year for liver failure, and The Guardian reports:

He divorced from his wife Carla – who he met at a dancehall when she was 15 and married five years later – in 1990. She said: “There was no hope. I would never have left him if there’d been a glimmer of a chance of him recovering.”

Rafferty lived in California to be near his wife until he moved to Ireland in 2008, finally settling in Dorset. He is survived by his daughter, his granddaughter and a brother.