He also wrote a number of short pieces, including I'm on the Other Phone, Quartet for Two, and First Guitar (an autobiographical play about Gene's acquiring his first guitar), all of which were presented by the dramatist Steven Packard in his 1994-1995 thematically themed series Plays by Playwrights at the theatre collective Polaris North in New York City.
In the early 1960s, Raskin and his wife Francesca played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York.
Paul McCartney frequented the club when they were performing and, when the Beatles formed the Apple label, he secured the rights to "Those Were the Days" for a record by singer Mary Hopkin.
Raskin bought a home in Pollença, Mallorca, a Porsche Spyder and a sailboat, and lived very well off his royalties for the rest of his life.
[citation needed] He also got royalties from his novel Stranger in my Arms, his play The Old Friend, and his several books on architecture, which are still used in various universities around the world.