Yes Gerry was a fellow Scot,he was born and raised in Paisley,which is a large town about 8 miles from the City of Glasgow...i had the pleasure of meeting him and Billy Connolly many moons ago when they played together as "The Humblebums" a folk group,...they toured all the small folk clubs around Scotland...Connolly left, as his comedy was taking over more of their act,then Gerry teamed up with Joe Eagan and formed "Stealers Wheel"...They had a massive hit with "Stuck in The Middle"...eventually they broke up and Gerry went solo,and of course "Baker Street" was born,with it's anthemic sax solo,he made the street more famous than Conan Doyle(creator of Sherlock Holmes)unfortunately,Gerry declined to capitalise on his "overnight" fame with the Album "City to City",he refused a live tour of America,in fact he rarely ,if ever done any more live appearances,fame did not sit too kindly on his shoulders..when i met him he did come across as a very shy ,kinda introverted person,tho very pleasant to talk to...in the eighties he lived a very quiet reclusive life,he had a home in Bridge of Weir..(an upmarket suburb just outside Paisley)also had a home in England,tho he was still recording but only as a studio artiste,i remember one quote he made in that period something to the effect that he could live quite comfortably off the royalties from Baker Street,but unfortunately he was hitting the bottle big time,his wife (his childhood sweetheart) tried everything to try to get him off the booze,she gave up and they divorced in 1990,tho' they still remained friends,they had one daughter,who kept in touch with her Dad..Gerry went into "freefall" drinking wise, in the last few years,he did move to Italy for a while,and done some more writing and recording,but it was never the same quality as his earlier material,tho' in the late eighties he did produce some tracks for the Proclaimers notably "a letter from america"...he moved back to England,he did give a rare interview to the "Daily Mail" a couple of years ago to dispel the rumours that were flying around that his drinking was totally out of control,as he seemingly had trashed a hotel room in London,and then went missing,and ended up in hospital in a bad state...in Nov 2010 he was admitted to a hospital in Bournemouth England with liver failure,where he passed away a few days ago,his daughter was with him..iam proud to have known Gerry tho it was only fleetingly,he was a brilliant songwriter,but a tortured soul..R.I.P Gerry.....Terry Moore.