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1979 Breakfast in America Tour

The first official live album was recorded in this tour: " Supertramp Paris ", released in 1980.

Ten month tour. The tour took 52 tons of gear, 10 miles of cable, $5 millions worth of equipment and 40 man crew . Broke all previous concert attendance records in Europe and Canada, made front page headlines full of superlaives and solidified the band's reputation for spectacular rock shows.

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JUNE 2- Cincinati, Ohio - Riverfront Stadium 3- Indianapolis, Indiana - Market Square Arena 4- Pittsburgh, Penn. - Civic Arena 6- Columbus, Ohio 8- Cleveland, Ohio - Richfield Coliseum 9- Birmingham, Alabama 10- Richmond, Virginia 11- Hampton, Virginia 18- Apple Valley

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I've known and followed Supertramp from the first album, clearly everything changed after songwriter Roger Hodgson left the band in 1983. The dynamics of the band completely changed; Supertramp in their prime had 5 members... now 10 members this year. Not the Supertramp I saw in the 70s, there just isn't the same chemistry and it is difficult and uncomfortable sitting through other musicians performing Roger's songs just to hear a handful of Rick's songs. Then seeing Roger at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013 re-ignited the feelings and immersive aural experience I once had seeing Tramp in '75 & '79. Roger was a tour de force, nailed the harmonies and a set filled with both classic faves and deep track highlights, it had more depth and authenticity of the Supertramp I once knew. Didn't hesitate to book when I discovered Roger's returning to Albert Hall, I know from the start it will be a more fulfilling show and wouldn't chance another disappointment seeing "Supertramp".

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Supertramp, the iconic London rock group who achieved great success in the 70's and 80's are still touring to their legions of devoted fans globally. Packed into the spanning O2 Arena, the audience is a combination of those original fans who are well into their 70s along with those who simply enjoy the band's legacy and style.

As the bombastic guitar riffs begin and the flared lighting illuminates the entire arena the crowd roar in excitement. The veteran rockers launch themselves onto the stage like a band half their age, the singalongs to 'Breakfast in America' and 'Gone Hollywood' are deafening as Roger Hodgson evokes even louder cheers from the baying crowds.

The band were such an important influence on progressive rock and so many of their albums have affected modern music. Therefore the choice in setlist is questionable, yet all the hits are there and the audience cheer for 'Goodbye Stranger' and 'It's Raining Again'. The band leaves their fans with sore throats, tired legs and happy hearts.

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I saw both Supertramp and the band's co-founder, Roger Hodgson, on their respective tours in 2010. I can honestly say there is no comparison and I have made it a point to see Roger live several times since. While Rick has some great songs of his own, there is nothing better than seeing Roger singing the songs he wrote - Give a Little Bit, Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Take the Long Way Home, Dreamer, Fool's Overture, It's Raining Again, School, and so many more. His voice is so unique that absolutely no one else can do his songs justice. It is Roger Hodgson who truly gives me the essence and spirit of Supertramp. I can't wait to see him again this year on his Breakfast in America World Tour.

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How Supertramp made the classic Breakfast In America

The story of Supertramp's mega-selling 1979 album Breakfast In America

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With anywhere between 18 and 20 million copies sold worldwide, Breakfast In America is arguably the biggest-selling prog album of all time after Dark Side Of The Moon . 

Not that it was very prog – the sleeve featured a waitress pretending to be the Statue Of Liberty against a backdrop of crockery pretending to be the New York skyline; it was released well after prog’s original golden age; and it wasn’t what might be regarded as a quintessentially prog package: it only comprised a single disc and contained 10 tracks – lengthy tripartite song suites were notable by their absence. 

The total running time was a meagre 46 minutes, two of the songs coming in at under three minutes long, the rest being around the three, four and five-minute mark, with only one clocking in at over seven minutes. Four of the tracks were lifted for single release, which wasn’t something you could say about, for example, Brain Salad Surgery , while the remaining numbers became daytime radio staples throughout 1979 and beyond, in Britain, across Europe, America and Canada, Australia, Scandinavia – most of the known world. 

In fact, it is rumoured that by the end of that year even tribespeople in the furthest-flung villages of deepest Africa were able to hum the refrain to The Logical Song and knew every word to the title track, taking special delight in the opening line, ‘Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got’ , much to the chagrin of their other halves in their huts.

That the album did so well was particularly impressive considering that it was Supertramp ’s sixth long player, and its release came at the height of new wave and disco. Its domination of the single and album charts, and the airwaves, was quite unexpected by all concerned – by all, that is, except the band’s label boss, Jerry Moss.

“Jerry came down to the studio and said something about Peter Frampton – who was also on A&M – and us being likely to repeat his success,” recalls Peter Henderson, credited as co-producer alongside the band. “Basically, he said, ‘I think you guys are going to be next.’”

Supertramp had already been around for a decade by the release of their most popular record, having formed in 1969 around core members and songwriters Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson . 

After two albums – 1970’s self-titled debut and 1971’s Indelibly Stamped – and several line-up changes, the group solidified around vocalists/keyboardists Davies and Hodgson, saxophonist John Helliwell, bassist Dougie Thomson and drummer Bob Siebenberg. This, the “classic” version of the band, established themselves as a cult attraction. 

The first album by the five-piece, 1974’s Crime Of The Century , was hailed as a minor masterpiece of acerbic songcraft and dexterous musicianship, and it featured many of Supertramp’s finest songs, including School and Bloody Well Right as well as Dreamer , their first UK Top 20 hit. And although the follow-up, 1975’s Crisis? What Crisis? , wasn’t quite so well received, it did posit Supertramp as premier purveyors of polished, prog-ish studio pop-rock with thoughtful lyrics, joining the select pantheon that also included 10cc and Queen. 

By the release of Even In The Quietest Moments… (1977), many of the bleak visions and dark portents about society expressed on the previous two records had come to pass in the form of punk, but Supertramp were able to weather the storm, and one of the songs, Give A Little Bit , became another huge and enduring hit.

But Breakfast In America eclipsed anything they had done before and skyrocketed the band into the commercial stratosphere. Supertramp were never a typical chart proposition or obvious stadium behemoths, with little of Gabriel-era Genesis’ live charisma, and none of the virtuoso pyrotechnics of Yes/ELP. 

If they resembled anyone it was Pink Floyd in that they were anonymous musicians whose focus was the song, but they didn’t have the Floyd’s mythic allure. Instead, they were a motley crew – the bluff, working class Davies (from Swindon) and the public school-educated Hodgson (from Portsmouth), plus a Scot (Thomson), a Yorkshireman (Helliwell) and a Californian (Siebenberg) – who had been assembled for solely pragmatic reasons. They weren’t a gang of mates who had known each other since school days, and there was none of that sense of shared history.

And yet, by Breakfast In America , they had built up a certain rapport, having spent much of 1973-4 living together in the wilds of Somerset, in a cottage called Southcombe where they were joined by family, friends, crew and pets, as well as unofficial sixth member Russel Pope, whom John Helliwell considers to be “underappreciated nowadays – he helped Roger and Rick with lyrics, and he was good in the studio, too”. 

In his sleevenotes to the reissued Breakfast In America – a two-disc affair containing the remastered album and a CD of live performances from 1979, available for the first time – MOJO’s Phil Alexander describes it as a “creative and supportive atmosphere”. Indeed, they had such fond memories of this period of enforced cohabitation that they tried to replicate the circumstances in America in 1978.

Supertramp’s music, the adroit performances and immaculate surfaces – what Helliwell has termed their “sophisto-rock” – was embraced even more readily by American audiences than British ones, and the band found themselves spending more and more time in the States, to the extent that Crisis? What Crisis? and Even In The Quietest Moments… were recorded there, in Los Angeles and Colorado respectively. 

When they came to record Breakfast... , all five members had relocated full-time to the West Coast and bought apartments or houses there, but it was decided that the Colorado studio had been too sterile and so a new headquarters was found for Supertramp and co in Burbank, a home-from-home that was promptly given the name Southcombe. There, throughout 1978, they rehearsed the material and prepared the demos that would eventually be recorded at the Village Recorder studio in LA.

All very cosy, except that, according to some, they weren’t quite the unified, cohesive unit they had been back in Blighty four years before. Principal songwriters Hodgson and Davies had begun to pull in different directions, the former’s increasingly spiritual bent causing raised eyebrows in some quarters. The song Babaji from Even In The Quietest Moments… had alluded to Hodgson’s latest penchant, and there was no stopping him now.

“Rick was pretty down to earth whereas Roger was a bit more mentally… not a higher plane, but spacey – he had spiritual yearnings,” says Helliwell, whose swirling sax provided Breakfast... with one of its signature sounds, along with those staccato Wurlitzer electric piano chords and Hodgson’s inimitable falsetto. It was in the build-up to Breakfast... that Hodgson fell in with a religious group who ran a commune in northern California. 

“It was an organisation of spiritually-minded people run by this guy called Swami Kriyananda,” recalls Helliwell, “although his real name was Donald Walters. They were all very sycophantic towards him. It was weird. Eventually Roger bought a place nearby and Swami found him a wife and they got married.”

Some reports have it that there was tension between Hodgson and Davies over a variety of creative issues, including the naming of the album (Davies apparently wanted to call it Working Title or Hello Stranger , the latter after a track that he had written) and the title song itself, which he allegedly didn’t want on the album.

Helliwell, however, maintains that, despite these rumours, the band were too intent on coming up with their greatest collection of material to allow personal or musical differences to get in the way. They even indulged in extracurricular activities together, such as playing football matches with local superstar and new best mate Rod Stewart, during which Helliwell acted as referee.

“There had started to be something slight, not a rift, but it was becoming apparent that Rick and Roger were quite different,” he admits, “but we managed to work well together. I don’t remember any animosity at all. We were just getting on with it, finding tunes that fitted together.”

They knew they were onto something special as soon as rehearsals began. “Even before we started recording we knew it was very strong musically,” says Helliwell of the early Breakfast In America sessions. Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick and his young assistant Peter Henderson had worked on Even In The Quietest Moments… , but it was with the latter that the band had hit it off best, so he was invited back, this time to co-produce (see panel). Supertramp had always had a reputation for meticulousness, and this was no exception. 

“The sessions were even longer and more tedious than usual,” laughs Helliwell. “We spent hours and hours in the studio; it would take a week getting the right drum sounds.” He was particularly peeved at the presence of Hodgson’s device for producing the optimum air quality. 

“Roger had this ionizer that he thought helped the air. I was convinced the fucking thing was giving me headaches so I kept turning it off, and he’d turn it back on. There were a few funny things like that.” But there were never, he insists, any punch-ups. “There have never been fisticuffs in this band,” he asserts. “Just tense silences...”

They may have been a quietly combustible mix, but the chemistry worked, with spectacular results. Virtually every song on Breakfast… was a melodic treat, at least half the tracks – Gone Hollywood , The Logical Song , Goodbye Stranger , Breakfast In America and Take The Long Way Home – being either singles or TV and/or movie soundtrack staples, while the remaining five ranged from the mellow concision of Casual Conversations to the more prog-ish and expansive Child Of Vision . 

The beauty of Breakfast... was that it gelled as a whole, while it was to Hodgson and Davies’ eternal credit that they managed to make songs as quietly critical (of the US, and each other) as these so infectious and easy on the ear. Supertramp’s triumph, meanwhile, was the utter musicality and economical elegance of it all.

“We definitely didn’t want to go overboard, because we were conscious of some groups going on and on with long, long solos and complicated arrangements,” explains Helliwell. “We wanted everything to be tuneful and succinct. It was only when we finished it that we realised, ‘Wow, we’ve got something pretty strong here.’”

Breakfast… was an immediate success, reaching Number One in the US, Canada, Australia and Norway, while touring saw pandemonium down the front. Not backstage, though. “We still played darts before shows,” says Helliwell, who reveals that, at 34, he was simply too old to indulge in rock ’n’ roll excess. 

“We were quite sober about it all, to be honest. We were more likely to go out for an Italian meal than have groupies draped over us or drugged parties in hotels.” Like a sort of British Steely Dan, Supertramp used the medium of “sophisto-rock” to comment on the culture with a detached, resigned air.

“That’s a good observation – we were looking from the outside,” says Helliwell. “I guess our songs are enigmatic and can be taken in many ways,” he concludes, “but they’re original and musical and have good tunes that don’t fit any particular category. People like them.”

Twenty million people, to be precise.

This feature originally appeared in Prog Issue 35, in April 2013 .

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How hit album ‘Breakfast In America’ proved Supertramp’s undoing

Having emerged thanks to funding from a dutch millionaire, the british group recorded classics that are still radio regulars today, but fell apart at their zenith amid clashes between their two lead members.

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In the annals of rock history , Supertramp tend to be relegated to secondary status. They were enormously successful, selling millions of records and playing before packed-out crowds at huge venues, even during the years when they released fewer albums. However, they’re rarely in the conversation when it comes to listing the very best; the music media certainly doesn’t afford them the same importance as contemporaries such as Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Supertramp are viewed as the ultimate guilty pleasure, a band people enjoy privately without admitting as much publicly. This appears somewhat unfair. Their 1979 album Breakfast In America was their greatest success, a collection of optimistic, stylish songs crafted amid an atmosphere of internal tension — one that descended into downright discord during the group’s subsequent, triumphant tour. “That tour had a damaging effect on relationships within the band, both as musicians and as people,” Dougie Thomson, the bassist in Supertramp’s classic line-up, says. “By the end of the tour, we’d only be together for the two hours that we were on stage.”

If you turn the radio to one of the hundreds of classic rock stations out there today, half an hour won’t go by before one of Supertramp’s songs comes on. It could be Give A Little Bit , The Logical Song , School , Dreamer , It’s Raining Again or any one of a number of others. “I don’t remember a single day in my life when I haven’t listened to Supertramp,” says Abel Fuentes, one of the major experts on the British band. Fuentes has written a comprehensive history of the group, Tramp’s Footprints , a 750-page tome featuring interviews with around 90 people. Everyone connected to Supertramp has their say in the book. “Many critics and musicians praised the three progressive albums they put out in the mid-1970s [ Crime of the Century , Crisis? What Crisis? and Even in the Quietest Moments ], but after their overwhelming success with Breakfast in America , the same people accused them of becoming a pop band that was only interested in commercial gain,” Fuentes says. “What’s more, the fact that they moved to the United States and were a group that kept such a low profile, avoiding the scandals that the period’s rock stars regularly became embroiled in, also led the media to completely forget about them in their home country.”

Supertramp receive the gold disc for 'Breakfast in America' in Paris on November 28, 1979.

Supertramp defy all the rock clichés. With no single, identifiable front man, they were anti-stars who didn’t fit the roguish profile of other groups. This was the 70s, when bands-behaving-badly became the norm. “We weren’t pop stars with bad habits who sought the spotlight,” says Bob Siebenberg, Supertramp’s drummer. “The journalists that followed us were after scandals, but we always disappointed them. They could only write about our music.” Going right back to the very start, the group’s story is a distinctive one. That we’re talking about them today is thanks to the money put up by a Dutch patron called Stanley August Miesegaes, a multimillionaire who fell in love with Rick Davies’ music and financed the group during the most difficult time — its beginnings. Sam, as he was known, turned off the tap in 1972, after the band had released two albums, 1970′s Supertramp and 1971′s Indelibly Stamped , which proved their least significant records. The group hit rock bottom when Sam dropped them. Neither of their discs had sold many copies, and now their patron had left, taking his checkbook with him. They were done for, it seemed.

However, it was a low ebb that spurred them on to show what they were made of. The band’s two driving forces, Davies and Roger Hodgson, focused on composition, and began to work magic. The release of the 1974 album Crime Of The Century — a disc many believe is their best — proved the turning point. “It had tracks that were simple and sophisticated at the same time,” Fuentes says. “In the face of the extravagant sounds that dominated the period, it was a breath of fresh air. What’s more, its production was so crystal clear that, five decades later, the record is still often used to test out all kinds of sound systems.”

The cover of the 1979 album 'Breakfast in America.'

Neither Davies nor Hodgson were anxious to take the lead in concerts: they would each perform at one end of the stage, leaving the humorous John Helliwell, the man responsible for the band’s characteristic saxophone sounds, to act as master of ceremonies. Internally, however, Davies and Hodgson were not on the same page. “They are two completely different people, polar opposites,” Thomson says. Davies is pragmatic, a realist, cynical, working class and a carnivore; Hodgson is spiritual, an idealist, romantic, middle-class and a vegetarian. Although the pair would sign their songs jointly as part of a Lennon/McCartney -style agreement, each composed on his own. Davies’ songs carried a clear rhythm and blues influence; Hodgson’s were more poppy and commercial, and were notable for his high-pitched tone of voice. Both sang and played the keyboard (Hodgson was also a guitarist).

And then came Breakfast In America , Supertramp’s seismically successful album. In 1979, no other disc could be heard more frequently; only The Wall , by Pink Floyd, and Off The Wall , by Michael Jackson, equaled the record in popularity. Some critics, however, took aim at the album as too commercial. “We had decided to record songs that were simple and could have a commercial impact,” Davies says in Tramp’s Footprints . “The pop side of things had always been a part of Supertramp, but perhaps it had been overlooked because of the comparisons that experts made between us and groups like Genesis and Pink Floyd . Sometimes we joked that if we needed to be more commercial, we wouldn’t find that very hard.” All the optimism with which the album filled its listeners was in stark contrast to the bad atmosphere that pervaded the studio during recording.

John Helliwell in October 1979, during Supertramp’s 'Breakfast in America' tour.

Davies opposed the inclusion of Hodgson’s song Lord Is It Mine , citing its “spiritual character.” He lost the battle. Hodgson had radicalized his way of life: conversations with him were dominated by talk of the soul, yoga, and communes. He began to get on the rest of the group’s nerves. The reasons for the break-up of Supertramp’s classic line-up were “Roger’s spiritualism and egocentricity,” Helliwell tells this newspaper, adding, “Roger did not appreciate the contributions of Bob, Dougie and me.” Davies wrote Casual Conversations as a criticism of Hodgson: “It talks about Roger and me unsuccessfully trying to communicate with each other — we had a lot of comings-together.” Hodgson responded with Child of Vision . “I wrote that song as a criticism of the materialistic way of life in America, but in truth it was directed at Rick,” he says in Fuentes’ book. “We were completely different. It was becoming difficult to work together.” The Breakfast In America album tour was a huge success, but when the fans left the arenas, the fault lines within the group were becoming more and more pronounced.

While the rest of the band travelled by air, Hodgson took to a caravan, accompanied by his partner. Davies even banned anyone from smoking weed in his presence, in a clear attack on Hodgson. In Tramp’s Footprints , Hodgson says “something died in the group” after the Breakfast In America tour: “I had the impression that Supertramp was disintegrating. In those concerts, I felt like an actor performing the same part night after night. We had become slaves to a huge production.”

The group released a live album (the wildly successful Paris in 1980), followed that up with a studio disc, 1982′s Famous Last Words , and went on tour after that. However, Hodgson had already told his fellow band members of his intention to leave. He did so in 1983. For many, that was the moment Supertramp ended, even though the group, led by Davies, continued performing and recording albums. They didn’t attract the same success as the band’s earlier work. When Hodgson departed, a verbal agreement was reached: he would allow the group to carry on using the name Supertramp, as long as they didn’t play any of his songs. That meant doing away with some of their most popular tracks: the likes of School , Breakfast In America , The Logical Song and Give a Little Bit . Hodgson would perform them on his own, and Supertramp would focus on Davies’ work. The pact held for a few years, until Davies grew tired of fans calling for the group to play Hodgson’s songs during concerts.

Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson

Describing his reaction to hearing Supertramp play his songs as a member of the crowd, Hodgson has said: “I was devastated — I felt sick. Even my son Andrew, who was with me, started to cry. I couldn’t understand how Rick could use all these songs of mine when he had so many good songs.” Over the years, there have been as many as three attempts to bring the band’s classic line-up back together again, but they have always been scuppered by age-old frictions. Fuentes points the finger at the group’s “deplorable” management. “Rick Davies’ wife took over in 1983,” he says. “At no point has she ever tried to keep the band’s name alive. While other legendary groups from the 70s have brought out all types of old recordings despite being inactive, that kind of material is conspicuous by its absence when it comes to Supertramp.”

In 2005, Thomson, Siebenberg and Helliwell took Davies to court in a bid to force him to share control over the rights to the band’s catalogue from their heyday, 1974 to 1983. They won. Despite clashing with them in the courtroom, Davies then unexpectedly got together with Siebenberg and Helliwell years later, and they went on tour as Supertramp. Hodgson, meanwhile, carried on recording discs and touring without his former band-mates. Asked by this newspaper whether he believes Supertramp’s classic line-up will ever reform, Thomson says he doesn’t think it’s likely. “The first 10 years were really great, but I think too many negative things happened after that which would have made it very difficult to go back,” he explains. “Better to stay with the memories of the good times.”

Today, Supertramp’s two most prominent members are in retirement as major live performers. Hodgson, 73, canceled a planned 2020 tour because of the pandemic and hasn’t been seen on stage since. After recovering from a cancer diagnosis in 2015, Davies, 78, performs two or three times a year in a bar in Long Island, New York, where he lives. He plays old-style blues and the odd Supertramp song. Now, though, he avoids any tracks written by Hodgson, the frenemy with whom he started a band that has never stopped having an audience.

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They had released five studio albums in seven years with solid results and when work began in April 1978, Supertramp devoted more time to their next album than any other. They were nurtured by Jerry Moss, co-founder (and the “M”) of A&M Records. The day after getting married, engineer Peter Henderson flew to Los Angeles to join band members  Roger Hodgson , Rick Davies, John Helliwell, Bob Siebenberg and Dougie Thomson to begin working on what was to become  Breakfast in America .

Its 1977 predecessor,  Even in the Quietest Moments… had gone Gold thanks, in part, to a #15 hit, “Give a Little Bit,” and A&M was looking for further growth with its follow-up. Instead, they got a blockbuster.

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Rehearsals took place at Southcombe, their own demo studio in Burbank, CA, named after the cottage in the English countryside where 1974’s  Crime of the Century was conceived. Recording for  Breakfast in America was completed in December with Henderson, now producer with the band.

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The clever album design depicts actress Kate Murtagh dressed in a waitress outfit carrying a tray with a glass of orange juice on it. Holding it aloft, waitress “Libby” depicts the Statue of Liberty. The view is seen from an airplane window, and objects in the background–salt and pepper shakers, cereal boxes, and so on–are made to resemble the Manhattan skyline. (It would win the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.)

Breakfast in America was released on March 29, 1979 and with its first single, the autobiographical “The Logical Song,” with Hodgson on lead vocals, the group had the biggest hit of their career.

Watch them perform it live in 1979

The title track is a young English boy’s dream of what breakfast in America with the right girl in hand might be like. “Goodbye Stranger,” with Davies singing lead, was released in June and became Breakfast in America ‘s second U.S. hit.

The album’s highlight is “Take the Long Way Home,” which Hodgson describes is “about a guy who thinks he’s a real dandy but he’s the only guy in the world who does.” The song sports a beautiful intro with piano and harmonica.

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Watch  Hodgson perform the song in 2016

[Hodgson told Best Classic Bands that “Take the Long Way Home” was written in 1969 but not recorded until nearly a decade later. “I never felt it fit with the rest of the songs on Crime , Crisis or Quietest Moments ,” he explained. “But with Breakfast in America , which was a collection of very different, upbeat songs, I felt it did.”]

Supertramp played a massive arena tour from March through December. When the band played New York’s Madison Square Garden, A&M threw a big party afterwards at a diner, even bringing in “Libby” for pictures. The huge radio support and concert attendance led to giant sales for  Breakfast in America . The album reached #1 on May 19, staying there for six weeks and was the year’s #5 top-seller. Cumulative sales are a reported 20 million copies worldwide.

Watch them perform “Goodbye Stranger” on  The Midnight Special in 1979

Fast forward many years. Craig Carlson, an American restauranteur had opened a restaurant in Paris named Breakfast in America  in 2003. However, it wasn’t until 2016 that a press agent for Carlson’s best-selling memoir,  Pancakes in Paris , reached out to Hodgson’s management to tell the musician about Carlson’s story, years earlier, to seek financial backers for an American-style diner in Paris.

Live Nation France set up a ticket promotion with the restaurant and arranged for Carlson to attend Hodgson’s May 27 sold-out concert at Paris’ Le Grand Rex. Right after performing “Breakfast in America,” Hodgson called out to the audience: “Craig Carlson, are you here, Craig?”

Then in French Hodgson said, “Trois restaurants!” (3 restaurants). “Je visite” (I’ll visit). “C’est un bon nom pour un restaurant.” (It’s a good name for a restaurant). And then the crowd cheered.

Backstage after the show, Carlson presented Hodgson with memorabilia from the restaurant and an invitation to visit the diner whenever he returned to Paris.

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As for Davies and Supertramp, the band cancelled their last tour, in 2015, when Davies was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Those dates would have been their first since 2011. Besides “Goodbye Stranger,” Davies also wrote or co-wrote such band favorites as “Bloody Well Right” and “Gone Hollywood.” But, wait, there’s more… Davies actually performed in 2018 with his “other” band, Ricky and the Rockets.

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The Pancake Guy

Great article, Greg! I learned a lot of interesting facts about Supertramp from it. And I especially love the video clips from way back when! 🙂

Greg Brodsky

You’re welcome! Such a great album. Mmm… pancakes…

2moulins

C’est très fantastique! :o) Enjoyed reading this, thank you – I’d surely love to visit this restaurant, and may very well do so before I attend Roger Hodgson’s three upcoming summertime shows in France – in Istres (7 July), Mauquenchy (8 July) and Perpignan (18 July). Roger’s songs and concerts have such an uplifting and unifying element to them. I will always remember this magical concert in Paris!

John Rose

It’s nice to see Rick out playing again. Looks like he had Mark Hart and G.E. Smith with him for this show.

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While Supertramp started as a purely progressive rock act in 1970, their mid seventies albums started to inch towards more pop/rock song craft. Released in early 1977, Even In the Quietest Moments , which contained the group’s first worldwide Top 40 hit “Give a Little Bit”. After that album’s release, the band decided to permanently relocate to America’s west coast and each member found fresh influence in the prolific pop music culture which was booming in late seventies Los Angeles.

Prior to the extended recording sessions, the group recorded a couple of demo sessions to sort out the best material. Originally, Davies and Hogdson were planning on doing a concept album, which would examine their conflicting personalities and world views called “Hello Stranger”. However, the group eventually decided on abandoning this concept and focusing more on the songs they considered more fun to perform. In this light, the album’s title was changed to reflect the bouncy, upbeat song introduced by Hodgson. Along with producer Peter Henderson , the group forged a fantastic sound for the album by focusing more on capture and performance than mixing and mastering techniques. This process took months and was only completed when the December 1978 deadline arrived.

Breakfast in America is bookended by two dramatic and theatrical extended tracks which give a sense of the group’s earlier work. “Gone Hollywood” starts with long fade of carnival-like piano before strongly breaking in as a duet of Davies and Hodgson harmonized vocals. After two short verses, a long middle section starts with a subtle but haunting saxophone lead by John Helliwell before Davies takes over lead vocals and tension slowly builds with rhythmic accents of the consistent piano arpeggio. After a climatic Hodson-led section, the song returns to a final verse and concludes with an optimistic musical outro.

“The Logical Song” is a brilliant song lyrically, melodically, and especially musically by Hodgson. The album’s first single, the song reached the Top 10 is several countries and became the group’s most successful hit. The song is highlighted by the later progressions, including the brighter piano notes under Helliwell’s first sax lead and the outro led by the bass riff of Dougie Thompson under the second sax solo. Lyrically, Hodgson critiques the structured education system and society’s unbalanced focus on true knowledge. The dynamics of the Wurlitzer piano are on full display during “Goodbye Stranger”, Davies’ ode to rock groupies. Beyond anything else, this song has exceptionally great sonic aesthetics with some cool guitar textures by Hodgson, including a cool rock outro with a refined guitar lead.

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The album’s title song was written by Hodgson while still a teen in the late sixties. “Breakfast in America” is almost frivolous in subject matter, but quite powerful musically with an interesting, English band march beneath the contemporary rock vocals. The song was a hit in the UK but failed to chart in the States. The side one close “Oh Darling” is an unheralded romantic ballad where Davies uses expert chord progressions and diminishment to perfectly set the beautifully melancholy mood. Hodgson makes his own significant contributions, starting textured electric guitar riffs and acoustic accents to compliment the Wurli piano and vocals perfectly, and climaxing with the closing vocal duet that builds to a crescendo before nicely fading out.

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“You know I get so weary from the battles in this life and there’s many times it seems that you’re the only hope in sight…”

Next come a couple of tracks by Davies. “Just Another Nervous Wreck” is a building pop/rock song about the struggle of the everyman. It starts with an animated electric piano and vocals and builds with many traditional rock elements including a fine harmonized guitar lead and chorus vocals, before the strong, climatic outro with Davies’s vocals becoming ever more desperate and strained. “Casual Conversations” takes the opposite approach to the previous track, as a short, jazzy, mellow tune. Cool piano carries this along, with not much movement elsewhere, just a guide cymbal beat by drummer Bob Siebenberg . “Child of Vision” closes things out as a seven-plus minute track with an epic feel. Employing some newer musical styles and elements, the track is Helliwell’s only partial songwriting credit on the album and it ends with a long piano solo with a improvised feel. This ending, unfortunately, seems mainly there to take up some time and “run out the clock”, which makes for a less than satisfying conclusion to this otherwise flawless album.

Breakfast in America won two Grammy Awards in 1980, and topped the album charts in several countries, including France where it became the biggest-selling English language album of all time. The group followed the album with a 120-date world tour which broke concert attendance records in Europe and Canada. In 1980, the band released the double live album Paris , another huge success worldwide. The group did not follow up Breakfast in America with another studio release until Famous Last Words was released in late 1982, nearly four years later. Although that album was a commercial success, the subsequent tour led to Hodgson’s departure from the group, breaking up the classic lineup of Supertramp.

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I don’t feel at all they were running out the clock on the piano solo at the end of “child of vision”. In fact I actually find it riveting.

He plays it so well, so subtly. To me it is a master class (as well as just totally satisfying) to hear him start in with just a few notes, a few diads, and repeat, taking good time to let it sink in, then adding a little, let that simmer, add a little more until towards the end he is going strong and rhythmically as well as tone wise with much more intricate and interesting patterns.

I get a thrill out of it every time, how it builds. Music isn’t about finishing quickly as possible, no superfluous notes, etc. this isn’t building a car on an assembly line.

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Artist’s Remorse: Why Supertramp Was Disappointed with ‘…Famous Last Words…’

O ver the course of the 1970s, Supertramp quietly built a reputation as one of the decade’s premier progressive rock bands. But there was nothing quiet about the response to their 1979 release, Breakfast in America . The quadruple-Platinum album ranked fifth on the year-end Billboard 200 chart and landed three singles in the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Any conceivable follow-up to Breakfast in America was bound to be a disappointment. By their pre-1979 standards, …Famous Last Words… would have been considered a huge commercial success, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and receiving Gold certification. “It’s Raining Again” became Supertramp’s third-highest charting single, making it to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the eyes of critics and the band itself, though, their 1982 album was a major comedown from their previous efforts.

It would be easy to assume that success spoiled Supertramp, and that the outsized success of Breakfast in America was responsible for the band losing its way on …Famous Last Words… . Yet the roots of Supertramp’s dissatisfaction with the album go back to the band’s early years, and the difficulties the members faced may have occurred even if Breakfast in America hadn’t been such an enormous hit.

“I Never Really Felt Like a Band”

There had always been a tension between Supertramp’s co-frontmen and songwriters Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies. Hodgson wrote and sang the band’s poppier songs, while Davies’ compositions typically had a harder edge. Though Davies wrote half of Breakfast in America’ s 10 tracks, the album’s lighter feel played to Hodgson’s strengths. That was reflected in three of the album’s four most-popular songs (“The Logical Song,” “Take the Long Way Home,” and the title track) being written by Hodgson.

In the aftermath of Breakfast of America , Supertramp was at a crossroads. Should they make another album in the style of their smash hit? Return to the proggier vibe of Crime of the Century or Even in the Quietest Moments ? Or go in a different direction altogether? Not surprisingly, Hodgson wanted to continue writing pop hits, but Davies and the other band members wanted to play longer, edgier songs. In the process of trying to find a compromise, …Famous Last Words… was neither as infectious as Breakfast in America nor as inventive as Supertramp’s earlier work. No one in the band was happy with the final result.

It wasn’t just creative differences that bogged Supertramp down during the making of …Famous Last Words… . Hodgson increasingly felt that he wanted to work with other musicians, and he officially left Supertramp at the conclusion of the tour for …Famous Last Words… . In a 1983 interview, Hodgson said, “I never really felt like a band. They always felt like a band, but I felt like a solo artist in a band.”

Falling Short of What Could Have Been

In an interview with The Arizona Republic 33 years later, Hodgson attributed the inferior quality of …Famous Last Words… to the members of Supertramp not being on the same page. He said, “It fell so far short of what we could have achieved if we had been more unified.” But given that Hodgson felt like “a solo artist in a band,” that unity would have probably been impossible for Supertramp to achieve.

In a 2015 interview with Straight , drummer Bob Siebenberg conceded the compromise between Hodgson’s and Davies’ visions for …Famous Last Words… “wasn’t really what we wanted to do.” Supertramp didn’t have much trouble leaving songs from the album behind once Hodgson departed for his solo career. For the most part, the band had left songs from …Famous Last Words… off their concert setlists over the 29 years that spanned Hodgson’s exit and the band’s final live appearances in 2012. Some of those exclusions stem from the band refraining from playing Hodgson’s compositions for some of their tours. One exception is Davies’ “Put On Your Old Brown Shoes,” which is Supertramp’s 18th-most played song in concerts, according to setlist.fm .

After …Famous Last Words…

In an interview for Rolling Stone , Hodgson acknowledged that, of the compositions that he and Davies brought to the …Famous Last Words… sessions, “the best songs fell to the wayside.” One of those was Davies’ “Brother Where You Bound,” a 10-minute piece with multiple movements that didn’t fit well with the songs that were chosen for the album. An even longer version of the song found its way onto the first Supertramp album without Hodgson. That album, also called Brother Where You Bound , went to No. 21 on the Billboard 200. It was the last Supertramp album to reach the upper half of that chart.

Davies made good on his intention to write longer and more adventurous songs on Brother Where You Bound and subsequent albums. While he didn’t get the type of album he wanted with …Famous Last Words… , listeners can get a sense of the direction he and Supertramp wanted to take on that album’s “Waiting So Long.” What Supertramp probably didn’t plan was to have a pair of Top 10 dance hits in the latter half of the ‘80s. “Cannonball” hit No. 9 on Billboard ’s Dance Club Songs chart in 1985, while “I’m Beggin’ You” topped the chart in 1988.

Hodgson would release his first solo album In the Eye of the Storm in 1984, and it included two Top 40 tracks—“Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)” (No. 11) and “In Jeopardy” (No. 30) on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. He would go on to release two more solo albums, Hai Hai (1987) and Open the Door (2000).

While Supertramp would probably just as soon forget they ever made … Famous Last Words …, at least a couple of tracks have had some legs. “It’s Raining Again” and “My Kind of Lady” are among the band’s 10 most-popular songs on Spotify. A few of the deeper cuts, including “Waiting So Long” and “C’est Le Bon,” are worth remembering, too. The classic lineup didn’t go out on the top of their game, but we can still be grateful they made this one last album, even if they’re not.

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  9. Supertramp Concert Map by tour: Breakfast In America

    View the concert map Statistics of Supertramp for the tour Breakfast In America! setlist.fm Add Setlist. Search Clear search text. follow. Setlists; Artists; Festivals ... 70-10 Tour (56) Breakfast In America (119) Brother on the Road (90) Crime of the Century (84) Crisis? What Crisis? (109) Even In the Quietest Moments (115)

  10. How Supertramp made the classic Breakfast In America

    The story of Supertramp's mega-selling 1979 album Breakfast In America (Image credit: Getty) With anywhere between 18 and 20 million copies sold worldwide, Breakfast In America is arguably the biggest-selling prog album of all time after Dark Side Of The Moon .

  11. How hit album 'Breakfast In America' proved Supertramp's undoing

    John Helliwell in October 1979, during Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America' tour. Rob Verhorst (Redferns) Davies opposed the inclusion of Hodgson's song Lord Is It Mine, citing its "spiritual character." He lost the battle. Hodgson had radicalized his way of life: conversations with him were dominated by talk of the soul, yoga, and communes.

  12. Breakfast in America (song)

    See media help. " Breakfast in America " is the title track from English rock band Supertramp 's 1979 album of the same name. Credited to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, it was a top-ten hit in the UK [3] and a live version of the song reached No. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1981. The lyrics tell about a person, presumably British ...

  13. On the Menu: Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'

    Supertramp played a massive arena tour from March through December. When the band played New York's Madison Square Garden, A&M threw a big party afterwards at a diner, even bringing in "Libby" for pictures. The huge radio support and concert attendance led to giant sales for Breakfast in America. The album reached #1 on May 19, staying ...

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  15. Supertramp Tickets, 2024 Concert Tour Dates

    Supertramp concerts deliver the hits that elevated their 1979 album, Breakfast in America, to No. 1 in the United States. Songs like "The Logical Song," with its bouncy spirit and playful, intelligent lyrics, remain on the playlist of every classic rock station to this day. The British band began in 1969, with founding member, keyboardist Rick ...

  16. Supertramp Concert & Tour History

    Supertramp are a British group playing a mix of progressive rock and pop rock that notably had a series of top-selling albums in the 70s, producing several hit singles. The band was formed in the United Kingdom in 1969. All the group's members were musicians capable of playing multiple types of instruments, including brass and woodwinds.

  17. Supertramp Average Setlists of tour: Breakfast In America

    Supertramp > Tour Statistics. Song Statistics Stats; Tour Statistics Stats; Other Statistics; All Setlists. All setlist songs (1011) Years on tour. Show all. 2011 (19) ... Average setlist for tour: Breakfast In America. Note: only considered 35 of 119 setlists (ignored empty and strikingly short setlists) Setlist. share setlist School. Play ...

  18. Breakfast In Americaby Supertramp

    The group did not follow up Breakfast in America with another studio release until Famous Last Words was released in late 1982, nearly four years later. Although that album was a commercial success, the subsequent tour led to Hodgson's departure from the group, breaking up the classic lineup of Supertramp. ~

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    About Supertramp - Breakfast In America Tour Albums. Supertramp - Breakfast In America arrived on to the Other scene with the appearance of tour album "Rock Ballads - Part One (CD1)", published on N/A. The song instantly became a hit and made Supertramp - Breakfast In America one of the new great concerts to experience.

  21. Supertramp: Breakfast in America

    Classic Albums Live brings "Breakfast In America" by Supertramp live to the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre note for note, cut for cut! Using the world's greatest musicians, Classic Albums Live takes chart-topping albums and performs them live without all the gimmickry and cheesy impersonations. ... @WheelofFortuneLive, is on tour and returns to Ruth ...

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    "Breakfast In America" is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Supertramp, released by A&M Records on 29 March 1979. It was recorded in 1978 at Th...

  23. Classic Albums Live Performs Supertramp Breakfast in America

    01. March. 7:30 pm. Classic Albums Live Performs Supertramp Breakfast in America. Event Passed. Classic Albums Live is back in town with another recreation of rock's greatest albums, Breakfast in America. CAL goes to great lengths to reproduce the best records from the '60s and '70s live on stage, as though you were listening to the full ...

  24. Artist's Remorse: Why Supertramp Was Disappointed with ...

    Yet the roots of Supertramp's dissatisfaction with the album go back to the band's early years, and the difficulties the members faced may have occurred even if Breakfast in America hadn't ...

  25. Supertramp's Roger Hodgson prevails in royalties suit brought by former

    British rock group Supertramp performing on stage during their "Breakfast In Europe" Tour in Munich in 1980. (Robert Stein III via Wikipedia) ... after their financial fortunes improved with the commercial success of the 1979 hit album "Breakfast in America," Hodgson left the arrangement in place, he testified, because he never felt it was the ...