Supertramp is a British Progressive Rock band, that was big in the 70s and 80s, with such songs as "The Logical Song", "Breakfast in America", and "Take The Long Way Home", all three of which appeared on what is considered their greatest album, Breakfast in America. Their most well-known members are singers and multi-instrumentalists Roger Hodgson (who left in 1983) and Rick Davies (still in the band).Current members:
Rick Davies – Vocals, keyboards, harmonica, composition, saxophone
John Helliwell – Vocals, woodwinds, keyboards, synthesisers
Bob Siebenberg – Drums, percussion
Carl Verheyen – Guitars, percussion, backing vocals
Cliff Hugo – Bass
Lee Thornburg – Trombone, trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals
Big Applesauce: The cover for Breakfast in America is NYC with boxes as buildings and a waitress as the Statue of Liberty.
Book Ends: Crime of the Century opens and ends with the harmonica solo of "School", and their debut album features one version of the song "Surely" at each end.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: On the original Lyrics sheet insert for Crime of the Century (the album), Roger Hodgson's vocals are colored white, and Rick Davies' yellow.
and "Fool's Overture," which fades out right before the singing starts.
Genre Shift: They started out as a Prog Rock band, but as time went on, they became more poppy, culminating in their extremely poppy Breakfast in America.
Humans Are Bastards: The song "Crime Of The Century" is either this or a group jumping the Moral Event Horizon (Raping the universe besides being difficult, would obviously cross that line) depending on how you interpret the fact that behind the masks "there's you and there's me".
Spoken Word In Music: "Fool's Overture" has a short clip of Winston Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
Take That: Word Of God says that "Casual Conversations" and "Child of Vision" are take thats to Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies respectively (and written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, respectively).
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