On November 30, 2009, “Hypertension Music” label released “Life Goes On”, the tenth Gerry Rafferty album, and the last one released in his lifetime. It was recorded in 2009, at “Icon Studios” in East Sussex, England, “Studio Miraval” in France, “Blue Wave Recording Studios” in St. Philip, Barbados, “Parkgate Studios” in Sussex, England, “Chipping Norton Studios” in Oxfordshire, England, “Tye Farm”, “The Hit Factory”, “Skibo Castle” in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, and was produced by Hugh Murphy and Gerry Rafferty.
Personnel:
- Gerry Rafferty – lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic, electric and high-string guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, programming
- Bryn Haworth – guitar, slide guitar, bottleneck guitar
- Hugh Burns – electric guitar
- Mark Knopfler – electric guitar
- Jerry Donahue – electric rhythm guitar
- B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
- Pavel Rosak – keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, brass, marimba, drum programming
- Kenny Craddock – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
- Alan Clark – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
- Ian Lynn – keyboards, strings
- Pino Palladino – bass guitar
- Mo Foster – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
- Giles Twigg – drums, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, reading from Digital Delirium, programming, engineer
- Arran Ahmun – drums, percussion, hi-hat, cymbal, tambourine, toms, cowbell, congas, talking drum, agogô, finger cymbals
- Mell Collins – saxophone
- Arturo Tappin – saxophone
- Gavyn Wright – strings
- Andy Patterson – bells, programing, engineer
- Joe Egan – backing vocals
- Lianne Carroll – backing vocals
- Julian Littman – backing vocals
- Melanie Harrold – backing vocals
- Nicky Moore – backing vocals
- Cindy Legall – backing vocals
- Tamara Marshall – backing vocals
- Ronnie Rehse – German reading
- Andrew Jackman – bassoon, horn, oboe, string arrangements
- Doug Cook – engineer, engineer assistant
- Brad Davis – engineer
- Philipe Garcia – engineer
- Jean Jacques Lemoine – engineer
- Chris Potter – engineer
- Dan Priest – engineer, mixing
- Brian Europe – vocal engineering, engineer assistant
- Tom Gonzales – vocal engineering
- Barry Hammond – drum engineering, additional engineering
- Hugh Murphy – recording, engineer
- Mike Ross – string recording
- Tim Young – additional engineering
- Zahir Kahn – engineer assistant
- Martin Raymond – engineer assistant
Track listing:
All tracks by Gerry Rafferty, except where noted.
- Kyrie Eleison – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Waters of Forgetfulness – (new edit)
- Don’t Speak of My Heart – Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty
- Because – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
- Everytime I Wake Up (new edit) – Gerry Rafferty, with a reading from Rainer Maria Rilke
- Love and Affection (new edit)
- The Land of the Chosen Few (new edit)
- Life Goes On (new edit)
- Another World (new edit)
- Time’s Caught Up on You (new edit)
- Conscious Love
- Over My Head
- Hang On
- It’s Easy to Talk
- The Maid of Culmore – traditional
- Your Heart’s Desire
- Adeste Fidelis – traditional
- Silent Night
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