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Johnnie and David listen to two classic albums - the one that gave us Baker Street and the one that followed Saturday Night Fever - Gerry Rafferty's City To City from 1978 and the Bee Gees Spirits Having Flown one year later.

Barry, Robin and Maurice had enjoyed record breaking success with their contribution to the John Travolta film and then there was a disco backlash, but the first three tracks on their fifteenth album were all big hit singles. As Robin says in an archive interview nobody wants to sell 70 million records and be played everywhere on every television and radio programme.

Gerry Rafferty (and indeed the Bee Gees) featured in the opening Soundtrack special from this series, when his group Stealers Wheel contributed to the emerging success of Quentin Tarantino and after some legal difficulties splitting from that group, he finally released his second solo album City To City. In fact the title was inspired by his trips back and forth between lawyers in London and Scotland over six years. Archive interviews feature Billy Connolly, sleeve artist, playwright and Tutti Frutti creator John Byrne, co-producer Hugh Murphy and Gerry himself.

We also discover that record companies sometimes do (and sometimes don't) suggest the best tracks for singles, that Gerry had an amazing ability to double track his vocals and that a saxophone solo, with a session fee of 拢35 and played millions of times all over world still generates urban myths about the late Bob Holness.