London (CNN) -- Singer Gerry Rafferty, famous for the 1970s hits "Baker Street" and "Stuck in the Middle With You," has died, his agent said Wednesday. He was 63. A cause of death was not given. Rafferty was born in 1947 in Paisley, Scotland, near Glasgow, the son of an Irish-born miner, according to Michael Gray, his manager in the late 1970s. Gray wrote Rafferty's obituary Wednesday in The Guardian newspaper. He was an "unwanted third son" whose mother would take him out of the house on Saturday nights when his father would come home drunk, Gray said. The father died when Rafferty was 16.
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Rafferty had a hit in the 1970s with "Baker Street"
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He was also famous for "Stuck in the Middle With You"
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Rafferty battled alcoholism for decades
In August of 2008, Rafferty hit the tabloids after a "five-day binge at a five-star @placeholder hotel" led management to admit him to a hospital.