Supertramp were an English rock band that formed in

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in 1969. Marked by the individual songwriting of founders

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(vocals, keyboards, and guitars) and Rick Davies (vocals and keyboards), they are distinguished for blending

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and

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styles as well as for a sound that relied heavily on

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. The group's lineup changed numerous times throughout their career, with Davies being the only consistent member throughout the decades. Other longtime members included bassist

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, drummer

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, and saxophonist John Helliwell. The band were initially a prog-rock group, but starting with their third album, '' Crime of the Century'' (1974), they began moving towards a more pop-oriented sound. They reached their commercial peak with 1979's ''

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'', which yielded the international top 10 singles "

The Logical Song "The Logical Song" is a song by English rock group Supertramp that was released as the lead single from their album '' Breakfast in America'' in March 1979. It was written primarily by the band's Roger Hodgson, who based the lyrics on his exper ...

", "

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", and " Take the Long Way Home". Their other top 40 hits included " Dreamer" (1974), "

Give a Little Bit "Give a Little Bit" is the opening song on Supertramp's 1977 album '' Even in the Quietest Moments...'' The song was released as a single that same year and became an international hit for the band, peaking at number 15 on the ''Billboard'' Pop ...

" (1977), and "

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" (1982). In 1983, Hodgson left the group to pursue a solo career. Davies took over as the band's sole leader until 1988, after which they disbanded and periodically reformed in various configurations. As of 2007, Supertramp album sales exceeded 60 million. They attained significant popularity in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. Their highest sales levels were in Canada, where they had two diamond-certified (ten-times platinum) albums (''Crime of the Century'' and ''Breakfast in America''), and their only number 1 singles anywhere ("The Logical Song" and "Dreamer").

History

1969–1972: Formation, ''Supertramp'' and ''Indelibly Stamped''

In 1969 Stanley "Sam" August Miesegaes, a Dutch millionaire, ceased providing financial support to a band called The Joint, as he was disappointed with them. He offered Swindon-born keyboardist Rick Davies, a former bandmate of Irish singer-songwriter

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, whose talent he felt had been "bogged down" by the group, an opportunity to form his own band with Miesegaes's financial backing. Davies assembled

(bass and vocals), Richard Palmer (guitars and vocals), and Keith Baker (percussion) after placing an advertisement in the weekly music newspaper ''

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''. Davies and Hodgson had radically different backgrounds and musical inspirations: Davies was working class and fiercely devoted to blues and

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, while Hodgson had gone straight from English private school to the music business and was fond of

. Despite this, they hit it off during the auditions and began writing virtually all of their songs together, with Palmer as a third writer in the mix. Hodgson and Davies collaborated on the songwriting while Palmer composed the lyrics. The group, having dubbed themselves "Daddy", after several months of rehearsal at a country house in West Hythe, Kent, flew to

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for a series of concerts at the P. N. Club. One 10-minute performance there of "

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" was filmed by Haro Senft (''Daddy Portrait 1970''). The rehearsals had been less than productive and their initial repertoire consisted of only four songs, two of which were covers. In January 1970 Keith Baker left, and to avoid confusion with the similarly named Daddy Longlegs, at Palmer's suggestion, the band changed its name to "Supertramp", a moniker inspired by '' The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp'' by William Henry Davies. In February 1970 Baker was replaced by former stage actor Robert Millar (b. 1950). In April 1970 Supertramp, while back in Munich, returned the favor to their friend Haro Senft by contributing music to his next film, ''Fegefeuer'' (a.k.a. ''Purgatory''), and would also agree to have tracks from their first album used in a documentary, ''Extremes'' (1971), by Tony Klinger and Michael Lytton. Supertramp were one of the first groups to be signed to the UK branch of

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and their first album, ''

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'', was released on 14 August 1970 in the UK and Canada (it would not be issued in the US until late 1977). Stylistically, the album was fairly typical of

of the era. Despite receiving a good deal of critical praise, the album did not attract a large audience. Dave Winthrop (flute and saxophone, vocals) had first auditioned for the group in March 1970 but didn't join until July, just before the release of the first record. He performed with Supertramp at the

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on 27 August 1970. The membership continued to change in the six months following the album's release: Palmer left the band in December 1970, followed by Millar in January 1971, who had suffered a nervous breakdown.(8 March 2009)
"30 Years on from Breakfast in America"
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. Palmer was replaced by former

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guitarist David O'List, who lasted for only one gig. A drummer from Birmingham, Dickie Thomas, was brought in during the interim until auditions brought the band Kevin Currie in February 1971. For the next album, ''

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'', released in June 1971 in both the UK and US, Frank Farrell (bass, keyboards, backing vocals) joined, while Hodgson switched to guitar and Davies served as a second lead singer. With Palmer's departure, Hodgson and Davies wrote and composed separately for this and the band's subsequent albums. The record sold even less than their debut. In the aftermath, all members gradually quit except Hodgson and Davies, and Miesegaes withdrew his financial support in October 1972.

1973–1978: ''Crime of the Century'' and commercial breakthrough

After Farrell's departure in the spring of 1972, 20 year old bassist Nick South (from

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's band) came in for a temporary stint until

(from

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) joined in July. In the summer of 1973 more auditions to replace the departed Curry and Winthrop started and introduced

(initially credited as Bob C. Benberg; drums and percussion) and another Alan Bown alumni, John Helliwell (saxophone, other

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, occasional keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals), completing the lineup in the summer of 1973. Hodgson would also begin introducing compositions featuring keyboards (particularly the

) in the band in addition to guitar. This lineup of Supertramp would remain in place for the next ten years. Meanwhile, the bond between Davies and Hodgson had begun weakening. Hodgson mused, "There's a very deep bond, but it's definitely mostly on a musical level. When there's just the two of us playing together, there's an incredible empathy. His down-to-earth way of writing, which is very rock 'n' roll, balances out my lighter, melodic style." Over Supertramp's history, their relationship would be amicable but increasingly distant as their lifestyles and musical inclinations saw less and less overlap. Their songwriting partnership gradually dissolved; though all of Supertramp's songs would continue to be officially credited as "written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson", most of them were written by Davies or Hodgson individually. Supertramp needed a hit record to continue working, and finally got one with '' Crime of the Century''. Released in September 1974, it began the group's run of critical and commercial successes, hitting number 4 in Britain, number 38 in the US, and number 4 in Canada. This album made the top 100 albums in Canada three years in a row in 1974, 1975 and 1976, even though it did not have a Top 40 hit in Canada. " Dreamer", the 1975 UK Top 20 single written by Hodgson, was the band's first hit single and drove the album to the top of the charts. Another single from the record, " Bloody Well Right", hit the US Top 40 in May 1975 and would be their only hit in the country for more than two years. Supertramp chart history Billboard.com. Retrieved 6 August 2011. Most of the band have said they feel they hit their artistic peak on this album, though their greatest commercial success would come later. In 1975, the band moved to the United States. With a hit album under their belt, pressures on the band increased, and the followup ''

Crisis? What Crisis? ''Crisis? What Crisis?'' is the fourth album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1975. It was recorded in Los Angeles and London – Supertramp's first album to have recording done in the US. A remastered CD version of the albu ...

'' had to be recorded in the few months between two scheduled concert tours. As a consequence, most of the material consisted of leftover songs from ''Crime of the Century'', and decades later the band would continue to regard the album as one of their worst moments. Nevertheless, Hodgson said in a 2015 interview that ''Crisis? What Crisis?'' was his favourite Supertramp album. Despite Supertramp's own misgivings, the album was well received by critics, and when released in November 1975, it broke both the UK Top Twenty and the US Top Fifty in spite of its singles all being commercial flops. The following album, '' Even in the Quietest Moments...'', released in April 1977, spawned a hit single with "

" (number 15 US, number 29 UK, number 8 in Canada), first written by Hodgson at 19 or 20 years of age before he introduced it to the band for recording five to six years later. As usual, the popularity of the album itself eclipsed that of its singles, and ''Even in the Quietest Moments...'' hit number 16 in the US, number 12 in the UK, and 1 in Canada. During this period, the band permanently relocated to

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1979–1983: ''Breakfast in America'', ''...Famous Last Words...'' and Hodgson's departure

The band's switch to a more

-oriented approach peaked with their most popular album, ''

''. For the last two months of completing the album, Hodgson parked a camper outside of the studio to work diligently on mixing, with brief periods of rest in between. He remembered feeling that "it could be a big album" and that he spent "days and sometimes weeks choosing the right songs and the right order of songs so one song flowed into the next". Released in March 1979, ''Breakfast in America'' reached number 3 in the UK and number 1 in the US and Canada. The album spawned four successful singles (more than their first five albums combined): three of Hodgson's songs, "

" (number 1 Canada, number 6 US, number 7 UK), " Take the Long Way Home" (number 4 Canada, number 10 US, not released in UK), and "

" (number 9 UK, not released in the US or Canada) and Davies' "

" (number 5 in Canada, number 15 US, number 57 UK).Billboard singles charts
Allmusic. Retrieved 26 August 2015. Supertramp performing in 1979 To avoid an overly lengthy gap between albums during their hiatus, the band put out 1980's ''

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'', a two-LP live album recorded mostly at the Pavillon de Paris. It broke the top ten in both the US and UK. A live version of "Dreamer" was released as a single hitting number 1 in Canada and number 15 in the US, even though the studio version had failed to even chart there in 1974. And a second single from the live album, "

", peaked at number 62 in the US. Hodgson moved his family from the Los Angeles area to the mountains of northern California where he built a home and studio and focused on his family and spiritual life, while recording a solo album, initially titled ''Sleeping with the Enemy'', which would later be released as '' In the Eye of the Storm'' in 1984. This geographic separation widened the rift between him and the rest of the group; during the conceptualization and recording of their next album, '' ...Famous Last Words...'', Davies and Hodgson found far greater difficulty in reconciling their musical ideas than they had before, and it was apparent to the rest of the band that Hodgson wanted out. ''...Famous Last Words...'' was released in October 1982, and scored two more hits with "

" and " My Kind of Lady". It peaked at no. 5 in the USA and no. 6 in the UK. A worldwide tour followed in 1983, in which the band was joined by two additional musicians on stage, former

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(guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Scott Page (sax, guitar, horns, backing vocals), and Hodgson announced he would not be continuing with the band once the tour finished in September 1983. Hodgson has stated that his departure was motivated by a desire to spend more time with his family and make solo recordings and that there were never any real personal or professional problems between him and Davies, as some people thought.

1984–1988: ''Brother Where You Bound'' and ''Free as a Bird''

The Davies-led Supertramp released ''

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'' in May 1985. The album was a deliberate step away from the pop approach of their last two studio albums, and reached no. 20 in the UK charts and no. 21 in the US charts. It included the Top 30 hit single " Cannonball", along with the title track, a 16-minute exposition on Cold War themes highlighted by guitar solos from

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's David Gilmour. A 20-minute film of the title track by Rene Daalder was used to promote the album. Supertramp mounted a tour in the fall of 1985 through early 1986 that was their first without Hodgson. The lineup included Davies, Thomson, Helliwell, Siebenberg, Scott Page,

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(guitar, backing vocals), Carl Verheyen (guitar, percussion, backing vocals) and Mark Hart (vocals, guitar, keyboards). Brad Cole sat in for Hart for several gigs in late October/early November of 1985 after the latter was called away due to a family emergency. 1987's '' Free as a Bird'' experimented in heavily synthesised music,Bollenberg, John "Bobo" (26 June 2000)
Interview with Rick Davies, John Helliwell, Jack Douglass, and Georges Ohayon
ProgressiveWorld.net. such as " I'm Beggin' You", which reached number 1 on the US dance charts. The stylistic change was generally not well-received, however, and the album itself reached only no. 93 in the UK and 101 in the US, breaking a streak of seven consecutive top 100 efforts on the American charts. In addition to their shift towards less commercially oriented material, the band members decided to drop all of Hodgson's compositions from their setlist in order to further establish an identity separate from him. However, audiences were angered by the omissions of these songs, and although Supertramp toured in 1985 using only Davies's compositions, in 1988 the pressure from fans and their first tour of South America drove them to reintroduce a handful of Hodgson-penned hits to their set.Majewski, Stephen (17 June 1998)
Doug Thomson Interview
The band's 1988 touring lineup was almost the same as it had been in '85/'86, but with Brad Cole returning in place of Scott Page and percussionist Steve Reid instead of guitarist Carl Verheyen. After 1988's tour, the group fragmented. Davies later explained, "We'd been out there for about 20 years just recording and touring and it seemed time to have a break with no ideas as to if or when we would come back. We decided not to actually say anything, just sort of fade away like an old soldier."

1993 Hodgson and Davies reunion

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, co-founder of A&M Records, Hodgson, Davies, and Helliwell (together with Jeff Daniel) appeared to perform "The Logical Song" and "Goodbye Stranger". After that, Davies and Hodgson began working together again, recording demos of two new songs, "

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" and "And the Light". But disagreements over management prompted them to part ways once again soon after, with both songs eventually appearing, ''sans'' Hodgson, on Supertramp's next release in 1997.

1996–2002: ''Some Things Never Change'' and ''Slow Motion''

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, horn player Lee Thornburg and former

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percussionist Tom Walsh (who was replaced for the band's 1997 tour by Bob Siebenberg's son Jesse, who would also go on to contribute guitar, keyboards and vocals), bringing the band up to an eight-man lineup. The result of this reunion was ''

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'', a new studio album released in March 1997 that echoed the earlier Supertramp sound and reached number 74 in the UK.Supertramp in the UK Charts
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'' (April 1999). After a three-year hiatus, Supertramp released in April 2002 a new studio album entitled ''

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'', followed by a 2002 world tour entitled "One More for the Road Tour". Supertramp continued to play several Hodgson-penned songs during live shows following their reunion. Hodgson subsequently claimed that when he had left the band back in 1983, he and Davies made a verbal agreement that they would not play those songs. Davies has never publicly alluded to such an agreement, and former member Dougie Thomson (who retired from performing to move into music publishing) commented "Nobody except Rick and Roger were privy to that conversation. Rick and Roger had several dialogues that no one else was privy to. Again, that's hearsay." The publishing company and contract legally recognize which songs each songwriter actually wrote. Hodgson has contractual approval rights over the use of his songs and Davies for his.

2000s–present: Hiatuses and touring

After the 2002 "One More for the Road Tour", Supertramp went inactive once again. Another attempt to bring Hodgson back into the band failed in 2005. In 2008, it was announced that Supertramp's music would be featured in the film adaptation of

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's best-selling novel '' Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance''. In 2009 Hodgson said he could not see a Supertramp reunion ever happening: "We've looked at it and talked it over... I would never say never but Rick avieshas pretty much retired right now and I'm in the prime of my life. The reaction I am getting from fans is 'please don't reunite'." Supertramp at the Gelredome 2010 (a)

On 21 April 2010 it was announced that Supertramp would perform 35 concerts in late 2010 in Europe. The tour was titled "70-10" to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the group's first release. Hodgson concurrently embarked on a worldwide solo tour, and thus was unable to rejoin the band for the 70-10 tour. However, in response to a fan campaign, Hodgson sent a letter to Rick Davies and had his manager send one to Davies's management, offering to join them for select dates during gaps in his tour schedule. Davies's agent notified Hodgson that his offer was declined. When asked whether Hodgson might appear at any Supertramp concerts, Davies replied, "I know there are some fans out there who would like that to happen. There was a time when I had hoped for that too. But the recent past makes that impossible. In order to play a great show for our fans, you need harmony, both musically and personally. Unfortunately that doesn't exist between us anymore and I would rather not destroy memories of more harmonious times between all of us." Hodgson and Supertramp continued to tour separately in 2011. Supertramp performed their last 2011 show on 16 July at "Les Vieilles Charrues" Festival,

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. The tour would include a London show on 7 December at

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, and would end on 11 December 2015 at the Ziggo Dome in

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. On 4 August 2015, however, the band announced that the tour was cancelled due to health issues affecting Rick Davies, who had been diagnosed with

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and required aggressive treatment to combat the disease. In late August 2018, Davies gave an interview in which he expressed that, for the most part, he has overcome his health problems and enjoys playing music again, something he couldn't do in 2016, when he was under medical treatment. Davies can also be seen performing a few tracks in a rehearsal/sound check at a bar with some of Supertramp's current members at his side. In the same interview, Rick also stated that Supertramp were unlikely to return as a structured band.Exclusive: RARE Interview to Rick Davies (Supertramp) - 28/8/2018 (Alma RadioTv)

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On 25 June 2019 ''

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'' listed Supertramp among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Members

Bold denotes members of the classic lineup. * Rick Davies – vocals, keyboards, harmonica, songwriting (co-founder; 1970–1988, 1996–2002, 2010–2011) *

– vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar, songwriting (co-founder; 1970–1983) * Richard Palmer-James – guitars, vocals, percussion, songwriting (1970–1971) * Robert Millar – drums, percussion, harmonica (1970–1971) * Dave Winthrop – saxophone, flute, vocals (1970–1973) * Kevin Currie – drums, percussion (1971–1973) * Frank Farrell – bass, keyboards, backing vocals (1971–1972, died 1997) *

– bass (1972–1988) *

– drums, percussion (1973–1988, 1996–2002, 2010–2011) * John Helliwell – saxophones, woodwinds, keyboards, backing vocals (1973–1988, 1996–2002, 2010–2011) * Steve Reid – percussion (1987–1988) * Mark Hart – vocals, keyboards, guitar (1996–2002, 2015; touring musician: 1985–1988) * Carl Verheyen – guitars, percussion, backing vocals (1996–2002, 2010–2011, 2015; touring musician: 1985–1986) *

– bass (1996–2002, 2010–2011) * Lee Thornburg – trombone, trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals (1996–2002, 2010–2011) * Tom Walsh – percussion (1996–1997) * Jesse Siebenberg – vocals, guitars, percussion (1997–2002, 2010–2011, 2015), keyboards (2010–2011) * Gabe Dixon – keyboards, vocals (2010–2011) * Cassie Miller – backing vocals (2010–2011)

Discography

* ''

'' (1970) * ''

'' (1971) * '' Crime of the Century'' (1974) * ''

'' (1975) * '' Even in the Quietest Moments...'' (1977) * ''

'' (1979) * '' ...Famous Last Words...'' (1982) * ''

'' (1985) * '' Free as a Bird'' (1987) * ''

'' (1997) * ''

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