Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) at its peak after the success of his single "Baker Street" and album "City to City" a year earlier. In the US, "Days Gone Down" was used as the lead single from "Night Owl" instead. The B-side on the original "Night Owl" single was the fourth track from the same album, "Why Won't You Talk To Me". Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) "Night Owl" is a song by Gerry Rafferty. It is the second track on his 1979 album of the same name. It features a Lyricon solo played by "Baker Street" saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. The song made the top
Gerry Rafferty a decade later: "Gerry had made three albums on the trot and I think he was pretty jaded at that time and feeling the pressure and he just thought, 'Well, I'll try another tack,' which is understandable". Instead of a cover painting and hand-lettering by John 'Patrick' Byrne, who had illustrated every previous Rafferty and Stealers Wheel album, "Sleepwalking" featured a simple, stark photograph of an empty road stretching to the sky. There was change too in the songs. The deeply introspective lyrics of "Sleepwalking" suggest Rafferty found success far from glamorous: tracks like "Standing at the Gates", "Change of