Featured Playlist
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- 15 Songs
- Even In the Quietest Moments... (Remastered) · 1977
- The Very Best of Supertramp · 1979
- Breakfast In America (Remastered) · 1979
- Breakfast In America (Remastered) · 1979
- The Very Best of Supertramp · 1979
- The Very Best of Supertramp · 1974
- The Very Best of Supertramp · 1979
- Even In the Quietest Moments... (Remastered) · 1977
- The Very Best of Supertramp · 1974
- Famous Last Words (Remastered) · 1977
Essential Albums
- With Breakfast In America, Supertramp completed their transformation from an experimental progressive rock group into commercial hitmakers. The title track, “Gone Hollywood,” “The Logical Song,” “Take the Long Way Home” and “Goodbye Stranger” are among the ear-catching fare. However, lurking underneath those easily accessible melodies are lyrics with serious philosophical concerns. There is a midlife crisis always looming. Their use of woodwinds and piano make them a particularly plush listening experience. The Deluxe Edition includes twelve bonus live performances. The live versions from Pavillon de Paris, Miami and Wembley Stadium in the U.K. are all true to their studio counterparts with the parts all well oiled. Supertramp were never a raucous live act built for jamming in the traditional blues-rock tradition, but a classically composed group of overachieving instrumentalists who learned how to make their points more economical over the years. As a result, the band offers an unusually enriched sonic experience. These live recordings are the proof.
- 1974
Music Videos
- 1979
Artist Playlists
- These prog-rockers-turned-pop-stars were masters of both.
- Theatrical pop full of anguish, joy, and redemption.
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
Compilations
About Supertramp
Supertramp began as an ambitious art-rock project but evolved into a pop powerhouse by the end of the ’70s. Formed in London in 1970 by singer/songwriters Richard Davies and Roger Hodgson, guitarist/songwriter Richard Palmer, and drummer Robert Millar, the band released their proggy, self-titled debut that same year to little notice. Palmer soon left, eventually becoming a lyricist for King Crimson. Davies and Hodgson convened a new lineup for 1971’s Indelibly Stamped but struggled commercially. Things changed drastically when Davies and Hodgson cleaned house once more, this time locking in the classic lineup with saxophonist John Anthony Helliwell, drummer Bob Siebenberg, and bassist Dougie Thomson. While retaining some arty elements, the band shifted toward a poppier approach on their 1974 breakthrough album, Crime of the Century, scoring hits with “Dreamer” and “Bloody Well Right” and reaching No. 4 on the UK albums chart. That transition continued over their next couple of albums, with the acoustic anthem “Give a Little Bit” scoring big in 1977 on both sides of the Atlantic. But 1979’s Breakfast In America made Supertramp international superstars, as three smash hits—the bittersweet “Take the Long Way Home,” the hooky, haunting “The Logical Song,” and the stomp-along title track—turned the record into an era-defining pop blockbuster. After 1982’s Famous Last Words, Hodgson left for a solo career, never to return, while Davies led the band onward until 1988. The band reunited (without Hodgson) a few times over the next couple of decades, releasing new albums in 1997 and 2002 that showed Davies and company’s undiminished gifts. But by the mid-2010s, Davies’ health issues appeared to mark the stopping point for Supertramp’s legacy of elegant, irresistible art pop.
- ORIGIN
- London, England
- FORMED
- 1969
- GENRE
- Rock