Supertramp
Latest about Supertramp

Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson
By Classic Rock Magazine published
With Roger Hodgson departed for solo pastures, Rick Davies augmented Supertramp's lineup with a couple of very special guests

“Like Pink Floyd played by 10cc”: Supertramp’s Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis?
By Chris Roberts published
Third and fourth studio albums remastered at half speed for vinyl reissues

Rick Davies, Supertramp co-founder and vocalist, dead at 81
By Fraser Lewry published
Rick Davies was the author of Bloody Well Right, Goodbye Stranger and more

BBC sport writer Phil McNulty recommends albums by Roger Waters, Asia, Supertramp and others
By Jo Kendall published
The pundit, who met John Wetton and Geoff Downes through their mutual love of the sport, recommends albums by Asia, Supertramp, Marillion and others

Supertramp's Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? to get 50th anniversary reissues
By Jerry Ewing published
Supertramp's classic 1974 album Crime Of The Century and 1975 release Crisis? What Crisis? to be reissued on vinyl

How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
By David West published
Inspired by the Beatles, a famous piece of classical music and the post-war era, Fool’s Overture isn’t the band’s longest song – but it’s by far their most complex and intense

How manager Dave Margereson rebuilt Supertramp to deliver a set of classic prog albums
By Daryl Eastlea published
With an approach based on belief and camaraderie, the self-described captain of the band’s pirate ship steered Supertramp from failing pop group to hit records including Crime Of The Century and Breakfast In America

How Peter Gabriel talked actor Adrian Lukis out of signing a music contract
By Jo Kendall published
After connecting with fellow public schoolboys, he went on to admire Pink Floyd’s intellectualism, appreciate Curved Air’s sexiness, and get lost in Jean-Luc Ponty while on acid

“He’s playing songs he didn’t even like!” Roger Hodgson’s Supertramp beef with Rick Davies
By Paul Lester published
The breaking of a deal made when they went separate ways in 1983 made a 21st-century reunion impossible – although Hodgson said he’d offered and been rebutted

“There have never been fisticuffs in this band… Just tense silences”: How Supertramp made the classic Breakfast In America
By Paul Lester published
They were more likely to go out for dinner than indulge in drugs and groupies - but that didn’t stop their 1979 album becoming the second-biggest selling prog album of all time
Select the newsletters you’d like to receive. Then, add your email to sign up.