The saxophonist who played the solo on Gerry Rafferty's famous hit Baker Street, but who admitted he was "irritated" by it being out of tune, has died.
Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, found fame almost overnight following the release of the 1978 track.
He went on to work with Pink Floyd, Abba and Marvin Gaye and more recently worked as a session musician for Daft Punk and Duffy.
He died following a suspected heart attack early on Sunday.
Ravenscroft is reported to have been paid £27 for the session with a cheque that bounced, while the hit reached number three in the UK charts and number two in the US.
Rafferty was said to have earned £80,000 a year from the royalties on the song alone.
In a radio interview in 2011, Ravenscroft, of Exeter, Devon, said hearing the song annoyed him.
He said: "I'm irritated because it's out of tune. Yeah, it's flat. By enough of a degree that it irritates me at best."
He had already appeared on one disco album by Maxine Nightingale, Right Back Where We Started From, in 1976, as an arranger but emerged as one of pop-rock's most prominent sax men.
In 1990 Ravenscroft, also a former tutor of music at York College, published a successful instruction book, The Complete Saxophone Player.
In 2011, he recorded a tribute to commemorate the funeral of Rafferty called Forgiveness, which combined his saxophone playing with the voices of Grammy-nominated choir Tenebrae.
Rafferty was also famous for his hit Stuck In The Middle With You which he recorded with his band Stealers Wheel.
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