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No. Only a guess- Eric Clapton some love angle for Patty Boyd???
Actually, according to an interview with Jack Bruce, they had signed a contract to record a finite number of songs for their new album and were one song short. They stayed up all night jamming, trying to come up with something anything. They had given up (actually he mentioned they may have been stoned). He looked out the window and saw the sun rising, and started with his licks on his bass, they picked it up, and their filler became one of their biggest hits.

Only other story I know like that was the old house band at Stax Records in Memphis, who showed up to backup some singer(s), who had paid for recording time but never showed. They had another group coming in later, so they just stayed in the studio and started jammin while waiting. The engineer had accidently left the recording device only, came back and listened to it, and asked who it was. The result of their jam had to have a name as did the "group". The song was "Green Onions" (no idea where the name came from, nor the name they gave themselves - "Booker T & the MGs"). The backed Otis Redding on "Dock of the Bay", a song Redding never heard.
 

Interesting I was going to post that Stewart and Rafferty remind me of each other. Two very talented English artists who never got the credit they deserve. I love how musical and layered their songs are.

I think I would put Baker St., Right Down the Line, Time Passages and YOC all in my top 100.

Sadly, Rafferty succumbed to alcoholism.
 
Interesting I was going to post that Stewart and Rafferty remind me of each other. Two very talented English artists who never got the credit they deserve. I love how musical and layered their songs are.

I think I would put Baker St., Right Down the Line, Time Passages and YOC all in my top 100.

Sadly, Rafferty succumbed to alcoholism.
Yeah. Rafferty died pretty young. Stewart lives in California but he's got to be 80. I've been in love with Stewart's lyrics since college.
 
Early Rod Stewart is good stuff - Every Picture Tells a Story.... Al Stewart is very different than Rod Stewart....
As is Patrick Stewart.
And Jackie Stewart.
And Jimmie Stewart.
...
I guess when you're the historical ruling family of Scotland, a lot of folks will bear your name.
 
As is Patrick Stewart.
And Jackie Stewart.
And Jimmie Stewart.
...
I guess when you're the historical ruling family of Scotland, a lot of folks will bear your name.
Hahaha.... Oh... You're talking about those Stewarts. Probably only distantly related to the rock and roll and sporting and acting Stewarts... but who knows. Al Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1945 to an English mother and Scottish father, who was a flyer killed over the English Channel in early 1945. He was raised, essentially on a widow's pension and part time income. Hardly the stuff of royalty.

 

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