In a state of flux and floundering after the commercial flop of their first two albums, Supertramp were close to throwing in the towel in early 1973. Enter producer du jour Ken Scott, hired in a ...

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Welcome to The Story of the Album, an occasional feature we’re re-launching today. In the coming weeks, we’ll be inviting local writers, musicians, artists, music fans – anyone – to write short essays ...

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The 13th? Unlucky for some. Especially if Friday-connected (it was). But Supertramp didn’t see it that way. For on that date in 1974, A&M released the band’s third album, the one that that was to ...

The tension between co-founders Roger Hodgson and Davies – who has died aged 81 – was the driving force of a band who refused to fit into any genre It must be odd to have been a band’s co-founder and ...

Supertramp were many things during the few years in which they were reliable hitmakers: art-rock proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers. They moved from esoteric cult band to the top ...

Davies wrote some of the band's biggest songs, such as "Goodbye Stranger" and Bloody Well Right." By Ethan Millman Music Editor Rick Davies, co-founder and vocalist of English rock group Supertramp ...

In 1979, Supertramp put out an album that would come to define the progressive pop-rock pioneers. The group founded by Rodger Hodgson and Rick Davies had been around for a decade by then and had some ...