Line #2 Trivia/Supertramp


1	* CreatorBreakdown: Many of their well-known songs involved Davies and Hodgson taking shots at each other. "Casual Conversations" and "Child of Vision" were these WordOfGod.
2	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Roger Hodgson named ''Crisis? What Crisis'' as his favorite Supertramp album.
3	* FlipFlopOfGod: Hodgson's thoughts on ''Crisis? What Crisis?'' seem to polarize differently with each passing decade; sometimes he calls it a disjointed mess of an album, other times he goes as far as to say it's his favorite work he's done yet.
4	* HeAlsoDid: Bob Siebenberg composed the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon''.
5	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While most of their albums are readily available, four of them (''[[SelfTitledAlbum Supertramp]]'', ''Indelibly Stamped'', ''Some Things Never Change'', and ''Slow Motion'') have yet to be released on streaming services.
6	* MagnumOpusDissonance: ''Music/BreakfastInAmerica'' is the band's most popular album, but the band members believe that ''Music/CrimeOfTheCentury'' was their best album.
7	* MilestoneCelebration: The ''70-10 Tour'' was this for Supertramp's fortieth anniversary.
8	* NoExportForYou: Their first two albums, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Supertramp]]'' and ''Indelibly Stamped'' were not released outside of the UK initially due to being commercial failures. It was until Supertramp became more successful down the line when they were imported. The ''Live '88'' album was also not released in the US.
9	* RealSongThemeTune: "Fool's Overture" has been used for the Canadian news program ''W5'' from the late seventies to early nineties.
10	* ThePeteBest: Anyone on their first two albums not named Rick Davies or Roger Hodgson, although Richard Palmer-James did have future success as a lyricist for three of Music/KingCrimson's most well-received albums (''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'', ''Starless and Bible Black'', and ''Red'').
11	* SimilarlyNamedWorks:
12	** "Lover Boy" is also a Music/BillyOcean song.
13	** "Oh! Darling" by Music/TheBeatles is similar in title to "Oh Darling".
14	** "Free As A Bird" (the album and its title track) also predates The Beatles' "comeback" single by seven years.
15	** Rick Davies has the same surname as [[Music/TheKinks Ray and Dave]] but is completely unrelated. Rick is ''also'' unrelated to the author W.H. Davies, whose book ''The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp'' is what the band named themselves after.
16	** "Don't Leave Me Now" shares a name with a Music/PinkFloyd song from ''Music/TheWall''.
17	** "Lady" (Music/{{Styx}}; Music/KennyRogers); "Two of Us" (Music/TheBeatles) and "Dreamer" (Music/OzzyOsbourne; Music/HilaryDuff) also count.
18	** "Take the Long Way Home" is also the name of a Music/BloodhoundGang song.
19	* TroubledProduction: Both of their most successful albums were followed by things going awry.
20	** Once the ''Crime of the Century'' tour was cut short after Roger Hodgson broke his hand, the band decided to instead go into the studios in L.A. to record their next album. And given Hodgson and Rick Davies hadn't even begun to think about their next album yet, a two week break was taken to add new songs to whatever unused compositions they had left... leaving the band, despite their original surfeit of time, with no time left to rehearse the new songs before having to record them. The bandmembers' girlfriends and wives also started bickering and over-influencing in a [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]] manner. The eventual album's title, ''Crisis? What Crisis?'', was even an ironic comment on the situation - as Hodgson summed up:
21	--->"'Crisis' means more to us than it did to other people because it was really a crisis album. We learnt how not to make an album, coming right off the road and going into the studio. We had a lot of bad luck in the studio. We really didn't enjoy making it and in the end it was kind of a patch up job."
22	** After the success of ''Music/BreakfastInAmerica'', the band was starting to fall apart given Roger Hodgson was growing disenchanted with the L.A. lifestyle, the music industry and touring, and also losing the fun of being in the band, while also not liking how Rick Davies fired longtime manager Dave Margereson and employed his wife Sue as manager. The album was done at Hodgson's home studio... except for Davies' parts, which he did at his own home. Hodgson even said the title ''..Famous Last Words...'' was a preemptive statement that the duo would never record together again, and indeed, he left the group in 1983 after a successful world tour.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
24	** After leaving Supertramp, Roger Hodgson nearly became the lead singer of Music/{{Yes}}.
25	** Disney nearly hired the band to score the rock soundtrack for the movie ''Film/{{Tron}}'', but the band (which by then were breaking up) pulled out of the project. The rock soundtrack was ultimately scored by Music/{{Journey\|Band}}.
26	** Hodgson wanted to appear as a special guest performer with the Davies-led Supertramp on their 2010 ''70-10 Tour'', but Davies refused, to Hodgson's disappointment. It would have marked the first time since a brief tour in 1986 that they both shared a stage.
27	** Scott Gorham left the US in 1973 and travelled to the UK because Bob Siebenberg (Scott's Brother-in-law) thought he'd be able to join the band. This didn't end up happening, and eventually after scraping some work from playing in pub bands for a few months, his visa soon due to expire, Scott eventually found some luck and joined Music/{{Thin Lizzy}} in 1974.
28	* WorkingTitle: "Goodbye Stranger" was originally titled "Hello Stranger".

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