Gerry Rafferty, who had Top 10 success with Stealers Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle' and his own 'Baker Street,' died on Tuesday in London from liver failure after a long battle with alcoholism.

The Scottish-born singer and songwriter had reportedly been hospitalized during November in Dorset, England, with a grim prognosis. He was taken off life support and showed some improvement until this week. He was 63.

Rafferty was born in Paisley Scotland, on April 16, 1947, to a Scottish mother and Irish father whose own drinking habit caused Rafferty's mother to walk him around the town on Saturday nights so they wouldn't be home when his father returned, drunk. Rafferty became a musician as a teenager.