Their early music involved challenging concept albums, but it is better known for their late, somewhat Beatlesque pop songs including "Dreamer", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give A Little Bit", & "The Logical Song". Despite chart profits a b& never attained stardom; it was remarked at a height of their popularity that Supertramp was a right-selling class action in the globecome whose members may hike down any street and non be recognised.

A title was taken from W. H. Davies' 1908 novel The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp.

Members
Original members: Rick Davies - vocals, piano, harmonica; Roger Hodgson - vocals, guitar, keyboard (to 1983), replaced by Carl Verheyen; Richard Palmer - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, balalaika; Robert Millar_(musician) - percussion, harmonica; Members, world health organization joined a band fallowing a departure of Palmer/Millar: Frank Farrell - harmony vocals, bass, piano, accordion; Kevin Currie - percussion; Dave Winthrop - vocals flutes, saxophones; Members, world health organization joined a band down a road - the 'Classic Lineup' cycle: Dougie Thompson - bass replaced by Cliff Hugo; Bob Siebenberg - drums, percussion; John Helliwell - saxophone, woodwinds, other; Members, world health organization joined a band when a departure of Roger Hodgson: Mark Hart - vocals, keyboards, guitars; Cliff Hugo - bass; Lee Thornburg - background vocals, trombone, trumpet; Carl Verheyen - guitars; Tom Walsh_(musician) - percussion, some drums; Jesse Siebenberg (or C. Benberg) - background vocals, percussion

Career

Backed by the Dutch millionaire known as Stanley August Miesegaes, vocalist and pianist Rick Davies used newspaper advertising to recruit an early version of the band in 1969, an effort which brought aboard vocalist/guitarist and keyboardist Roger Hodgson. More members of this embryonic Supertramp involved Richard Palmer (guitar, balalaika, vocals) & Robert Millar (percussion, harp). Ab initio, Roger Hodgson played bass. A 1st album "Supertramp", although super interesting musically, proven the commercial disappointment. Desperate to achieve profits, Davies & Hodgson tried to vary their style & line-higher for the next album. Frank Farrell (bass), Kevin Currie (percussion) & Dave Winthrop (flute & sax) replaced Millar & Arnold palmer, Roger Hodgson switched to guitar, & a fresh album Indelibly Stamped featured rocking Beatlesque tunes, more commercial approach & communicable handle nontextual matter. Supertramp got established themselves as a "cult" band. Gross revenue, nevertheless, did non improve good deal, which driven losing a trend lines of Miesegaes & breaking higher. Hodgson & Davies were back at square of these.

An extensive seek for replacements brought aboard Dougie Thomson (pronounced DOO-gie) (Bass), Bob Siebenberg (Drums), and John A Helliwell (saxophone, other woodwinds, occasional keyboards, backing vocals), joining original members Davies and Hodgson, completing a line-higher that would produce the class action's defining albums.

Crime of the Century, released inside 1974, began the class action's redo of critical & commercial successes, hitting first inside England, supported per top-10 only "Dreamer". Its B-side "Bloody Well Right" hit a United states Top 40. Siebenberg would late on note that he thought a band hit its artistic peak on this, their third album, though their greatest commercial profits would are later.

A band continued its process with Crisis? What Crisis? (1975) and Even in the Quietest Moments (1977). In the cycle of this period a band moved steadily from either the progressive styles of their early albums towards a other song-oriented, pop healthy. This trend reached its zenith in their virtually all popular album, Breakfast in America (1979), which spawned four successful singles, "The Logical Song", "Take the Long Way Home", "Goodbye Stranger", & "Breakfast in America".

A redo of successes was capped by using 1980's Paris, a Two-LP survive album, where a band stated its goal of improving on the studio versions of their songs. Interestingly, instead of focusing in songs from either a tremendously successful Breakfast around Us, it involved about each song from either Crime of the Century, an additional testament to the importance of that album in the class action's development.

Hodgson & Davies' differing singing & song-writing styles provided these albums by owning an interesting contrast, contrastive Davies' determined blues-rockers & songs of broken relationships ("Another Man's Woman", "From Now On", "Goodbye Stranger") by owning Hodgson's pensive self-contemplation ("Dreamer", "School", "Fool's Overture", "The Logical Song"). However Hodgson felt strained per arrangement & left a band fallowing a tour for their next album, ...Famous Last Words... (1982) which contained the Top 20 hit "It's Raining Again" and the Top 40 hit "My Kind of Lady". Hodgson immediately began a solo career when allowing the band inside 1983, using his large hit existence "Had A Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy)" from either his number one solo effort In the Eye of the Storm, in 1984.

A Davies-led Supertramp soldiered in, releasing Brother Where You Bound the same year. This involved the Top 30 hit only, "Cannonball", along by owning the title track, a Sixteen-microscopic anti-McCarthyist fulmination highlighted by guitar solos by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and the album reached #21 on the United states stock and index charts. 1987's Free As a Bird included more straightforward Davies rockers, including "I'm Beggin' You", which reached Number 1 on the US dance charts, a curious accomplishment for an "art rock" band.

Supertramp & Hodgson releases use been little & less frequent in the 1990s and beyond. Possibly a virtually all large release therein instance was a band's Some Things Never Change, a polished effort which echoed a earliest Supertramp healthy, featuring Davies, Helliwell, Siebenberg, & Crowded House's Mark Hart as an ersatz Hodgson.

Early 2002 saw a release of an additional album, Slow Motion.

Discography
Supertramp (1970) Indelibly Stamped (1971) Crime of the Century (1974) Crisis? What Crisis? (1975) Even in the Quietest Moments (1977) Breakfast in America (1979) Paris (1980, live) ...Famous Last Words... (1982) Brother Where You Bound (1985) Free As a Bird (1987) ''Live '88 (1988, live) Some Things Never Change (1997) It Was The Best Of Times (1999, live) Is Everybody Listening? (2001, live) - bootleg of 1975 concert also referred to as Dreamers Slow Motion (2002) Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology'' (Coming Soon)