SUPERTRAMP

THE LOGICAL SONG	Roger Hodgson	1979	6	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "I don’t know if I was in tune with human nature, I just had those questions going on in me and I wanted to express them. Early adulthood can be a very confusing time. You learn all of these things in school and then you are thrown out into the world and you’re expected to have all of the answers. I didn’t have any of the answers. I certainly hadn’t found the answers to the deeper questions in school." The song was very autobiographical. I knew how to be sensible, logical and cynical but I didn’t have a clue who I was. To me, that is the life journey we are on; to find out who we are and what life is. They don’t teach you that in school. I get a lot of emails from younger people today and they tell me that song totally captures what is going on with their lives. I was very sensitive and intuitive. I don’t know whether I felt different but I had very deep questions going on and I was surprised that other people didn’t. I wanted to know where true happiness lay. I wanted to know who or what God was because it didn’t make any sense. The God they taught me was not working. I knew there had to be an inward connection as that is where everything was pointing. It was a connection that was severely lacking in me and I was longing for it." KILL ME [P] (Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson) Roger Hodgson – lead/backing vocals, electric/12-string acoustic guitars, Wurlitzer electric piano Rick Davies – Elka/Oberheim synthesisers, Hammond organ, Hohner Clavinet w/wah-wah, backing vocals Dougie Thomson – bass Bob Siebenberg – drums, castanets, timbales, cowbell John Helliwell – alto saxophone, siren whistle, backing vocals, intro breathing Produced: Supertramp, Peter Henderson Engineered: ?? Recorded at: The Village Recorder, West Los Angeles, California, USA, 1978 KILL ME W S R P
SCHOOL	Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies	1974	--	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "School' is a golden one. Obviously, back then, I was pretty fresh from school. It had been a few years, but it was still very much in my consciousness. I had a lot of mixed feelings about school and I expressed them in that song." (2015:Classic Rock Revisited) Roger Hodgson: " I've always had kind of strong feelings about school and our education and what is lacking in it, so yes, "School" was very much some of my thoughts on my school experience and was obviously the beginning of what we intended to be a concept album, "Crime of the Century." Yes (double meaning). Nothing is accidental. I mean, when I arrange my songs, nothing is by accident. Everything, especially that scream that you're talking about just before the band comes in, does represent a lot, so what you're feeling is right. I mean, you know, school is a wonderful place. Obviously, it's a school playground but that scream does represent a lot more." (2010:Acoustic Storm) KILL ME [P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Roger Hodgson – lead vocals, guitars, pianos Rick Davies – lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974 KILL ME
GIVE A LITTLE BIT	Roger Hodgson	1977	15	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "I was a teenager when I wrote 'Give a Little Bit'. Even then, the love that I was writing about was a universal love, not just a boy-to-a-girl type of love. This song is very special to me because its simple message is timeless." (2005:www.rogerhodgson.com) Roger Hodgson: "'Give a Little Bit' is very simple. The album starts out simply and builds in intensity. This song seemed the best opener. As I said, it's a very simple song - give a little bit of your love to me and I'll give a little of my love to you." (1976:Cheap Thrills) Roger Hodgson: "Back then I had absolutely no sense of whether that song I was writing at the time would turn into a hit or not. Take "Give a Little Bit" for example. For six or seven years I did not dare to play it to the band. Because I thought it is much too simplistic. And listen to "Give a Little Bit" today. It still works. I wrote only when something had moved me very profoundly and I had to speak out on it. I write only for myself. Because the things that I sing about are very personal. If I had known that millions of people would listen to what I was just about to sing - I would have said: No, I'll never speak out on this!" (2015:Süddeutsche Zeitung) Bob Benberg: "Roger had been working at Malibu for quite a while on this tune. I'd hear the song in hotel rooms and places like that. He had the song on a little tape when I first joined the band so I was quite familiar with the tune. We tried out various drum things and it seemed right to ride it along on the snare drum… giving it something almost like a train beat." (1976:Cheap Thrills) KILL ME [P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Roger Hodgson - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards Rick Davies - keyboards, backing vocals John Anthony - winds, backing vocals Dougie Thomson - bass Bob Benberg - drums Produced: Supertramp Engineered: Pete Henderson, Russel Pope Mixing Engineer: Geoff Emerick Recorded at: Caribou Ranch, Colorado, USA KILL ME W
DREAMER	Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies	1974	--	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "Well, I am (a dreamer), and I definitely was even more back then. I was a teenager, I had many dreams. And I feel very blessed that a lot of them came true. But that song flew out of me one day. We had just bought our first Wurlitzer piano, and it was the first time I'd been alone with a Wurlitzer piano back down in my mother's house. I set it up and I was so excited that that song just flew out of me." (2012:Songfacts) KILL ME [P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Roger Hodgson – lead vocals, guitars, pianos Rick Davies – lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974 KILL ME W
GOODBYE STRANGER	Rick Davies	1979	15	VIDEO	[I] This song is about the freedom of one-night-stands. (Songfacts) KILL ME [P] (Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson) Rick Davies — lead/backing vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ, Roger Hodgson — electric guitar John Helliwell — whistling Bob Siebenberg — drums Dougie Thomson — bass guitar Produced: Peter Henderson, Supertramp Recorded at: The Village Recorder (Studio B), Los Angeles, California, USA, 1978 KILL ME W S
HIDE IN YOUR SHELL	Roger Hodgson	1974	--	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "'Hide in Your Shell' really came out of a place of loneliness and feeling very lonely, both within the band and in life. I had no one to share my spiritual kind of yearning. It is interesting that it is really connected with a place of vulnerability and loneliness with people around the world. We try to cover that up, and to have an artist express that with a song has really made a lot of people feel that they are not alone. " (2015:Classic Rock Revisited) KILL ME [P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Roger Hodgson – lead vocals, guitars, pianos Rick Davies – keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals (Anonymous street musician) – saw Christine Helliwell – backup vocals Scott Gorham – backup vocals Vicky Siebenberg – backup vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974 KILL ME
IT'S RAINING AGAIN	Roger Hodgson	1982	11	VIDEO	: "" () [P] (Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson) Roger Hodgson – lead/backing vocals, grand piano Dougie Thomson – bass guitar Bob Siebenberg – drums Rick Davies – additional synthesizers, melodica solo John Helliwell – baritone/tenor saxophones, synthesizers Produced: Supertramp, Peter Henderson Recorded at: USA KILL ME W
BLOODY WELL RIGHT	Rick Davies	1971	35	VIDEO	[I] The song deals with youthful confusion, class warfare, and forced conformity in the British school system (kind of like Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall (part II)"). This anti-establishment take was a theme of the album. (Songfacts) KILL ME [P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Rick Davies – lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica Roger Hodgson – guitars, pianos, backing vocals Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974 KILL ME W S
TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME	Roger Hodgson	1979	10	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "A lot of my songs historically have been love songs to God or to my conception of God or Spirit. But I haven't wanted that to be obvious so there are some songs that people may presume that are love songs to a girl that are actually not. For example 'Take the Long Way Home' you can see that on two levels you can take the long way home to your house or you can take the long way home to your home in spirit. So there is a double meaning to that song. Not all, but a lot of my songs are autobiographical." (2000) Roger Hodgson: "It wasn’t consciously about people I knew. There is a double meaning to that song. There is the obvious meaning of taking the long way home when you don’t want to get back home to your wife but there is a deeper meaning of taking the long way home about what really has meaning in life. You can take the long way home to your heart. You can look back on your life and wonder where it has gone. You wonder where the meaning of life has disappeared to. It is an interesting song on two levels. The last chorus talks about looking at your life and wondering what you could have been if you’d had more time. It has the lightweight meaning of your wife treating you like a piece of the furniture and then you get thrown a heavy line about where your life has gone. It has an interesting duality." (2011?:Classic Rock Revisited) Roger Hodgson: "Unlike most of my songs, that one wasn’t autobiographical. [Laughs.] That one was kind of a two-level song. And when I said it’s hard going home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, that wasn’t my reality then anyway. I actually wrote it just as I was getting together with my future wife, so family hadn’t really hit me then – it came later, it became truer. But it was kind of a play on words that suddenly took on a depth, too, about reaching later in life and having regrets that you didn’t do what you wanted to do." (2008:Rolling Stone) KILL ME [P] (Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson) Roger Hodgson - lead vocals, keyboards, guitars Rick Davies - vocals, keyboards Dougie Thomson - bass Bob C. Benberg - drums John A. Helliwell - Woodwind Instruments "Slide" Hyde - Tuba, Trombone Produced: Peter Henderson, Supertramp Recorded at: The Village Recorder (Studio B), Los Angeles, California, USA, 1978 KILL ME W
FREE AS A BIRD	Rick Davies	1988	--	VIDEO
AIN'T NOBODY BUT ME	Roger Hodgson	1976	--	VIDEO
ASYLUM	Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson	1974	--	VIDEO	[P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Roger Hodgson – lead vocals, guitars, pianos Rick Davies – lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974
MY KIND OF LADY	Rick Davies	1983	31	VIDEO	W
CRIME OF THE CENTURY	Rick Davies	1974	--	VIDEO	[P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Rick Davies – lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica Roger Hodgson – guitars, pianos, backing vocals Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974
LADY	Roger Hodgson	1975	--	VIDEO
BREAKFAST IN AMERICA	Roger Hodgson	1979	62	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "I composed the title track to the album, Breakfast in America, when I was in my teens just after leaving boarding school, before I met Rick and co-founded Supertramp. It was written on an old church pump organ, which my mother and I found in the back of someone’s garage in England. I bought it for 26 pounds. I did not have a girlfriend - I was a late bloomer when it came to girls. I was dreaming of going to America, going to California. Funnily enough, Rick didn't like the song and didn’t want it on the album and even wanted me to change the lyrics. I couldn’t, I liked it and the other guys all liked it, so we went with it the way I wrote it. " (2012:Servante of Darkness) Roger Hodgson: (line 'What’s she got? Not a lot?') "That was Rick’s contribution. I wrote that song in my mum’s living room; I was either eighteen or nineteen years old and I had just bought a pump organ. I found one in the English countryside in a church. When the churches went to electric organs they put all of the pump organs in the back room. I scoured the churches for a pump organ. I don’t remember why I wanted a pump organ so badly but I finally found one and I bought it for twenty six pounds. I took it home and “Breakfast in America” was the first thing I wrote on it." (Classic Rock Revisited) Roger Hodgson: “Breakfast in America just flew out of me in an hour. I just wrote the first words that came into my head. I scribbled them down on a piece of paper. It was the sound of the instrument that used to just transport me. My hands went to play these chords and that was beautiful and then I’d play them again and suddenly something was being born.” (2015:Ottawa Citizen) W
FOOLS'S OVERTURE	Roger Hodgson	1977	--	VIDEO	[Q] Roger Hodgson: "History recalls how great the fall can be, while everybody's sleeping, the boats put out to sea. It was very much the way I was perceiving life, that people were in denial of the way we were heading and the way the planet was heading." Roger Hodgson: ""Fool's Overture" is one of my favorite pieces that I've ever written. It was very magical the way it came together. It was actually three separate pieces of music that I had for a few years and then, one day, they kind of all slotted together in what I think is a magnificent, kind of epic piece of music. I always imagined it with an orchestra, so when I did start playing with orchestras back in the '90s, it was such a thrill to play this song. I mean I get goose-bumps still to this day every time I get an opportunity to do that. Boy, there's so much in this song. It's very hard to pin it down into one direction. I mean Churchill is in there. You know, I'm talking about Jesus in the second verse. It's very much about the fall of mankind, "history recalls how great the fall can be, while everybody's sleeping, the boats put out to sea." I mean it was very much the way I was perceiving life, you know, that the people weren't seeing and still kind of happening today, maybe less so today, but people were in denial of the way we were heading and the way the planet was heading, so I don't know. I don't want to get too conceptual over it but it was like a collage of different concepts and ideas that just really stimulate the imagination." (2010:Acoustic Storm) [P] (Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson) Roger Hodgson - lead vocals, piano, ELKA Rhapsody 610, harmonium, backing vocals Dougie Thomson - bass guitar Bob Siebenberg - drums Rick Davies - synthesizers, piano, backing vocals John Helliwell - Oberheim synthesizer, tenor saxophone, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Supertramp Engineered: Pete Henderson, Russel Pope Mixing Engineer: Geoff Emerick Recorded at: Caribou Ranch, Colorado, USA W S
CANNONBALL	Rick Davies	1985	28	VIDEO	[I] The lyrics to the song may have been seen as a veiled message to former member Roger Hodgson but Davies revealed in a French radio interview that they were inspired by a less than perfect concert promoter whom he refused to name. (Wikipedia) [P] (Rick Davies) Rick Davies - lead vocals, piano, synthesizers John Helliwell - saxophones Bob Siebenberg - drums Dougie Thomson - bass Marty Walsh - guitar Doug Wintz - trombone Produced: David Kershenbaum, Supertramp Recorded at: California, USA W
CRAZY	Roger Hodgson	1982	(10mr)	VIDEO
RUDY	Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson	1974	--	VIDEO	[P] (Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies) Roger Hodgson – lead vocals, guitars, pianos Rick Davies – lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica Dougie Thomson – bass Bob C. Benberg – drums, percussion John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals Produced: Ken Scott, Supertramp Recorded at: London, England, early 1974

SUPERTRAMP 1970 - Present CLASSIC LINE-UP: Mark VI
Mark I 1970 Roger Hodgson - V,G,K,B Rick Davies - V,K Richard Palmer-James - G Robert Millar - P	Mark II 1970 Roger Hodgson - V,G,K,B Rick Davies - V,K Richard Palmer-James - G Robert Millar - P Dave Winthrop - w **	Mark III 1971 - 1972 Roger Hodgson - V,G,K Rick Davies - V,K Frank Farrell - B Kevin Currie - P Dave Winthrop - w	Mark IV 1972 - 1973 Roger Hodgson - V,G,K Rick Davies - V,K Dougie Thomson - B Kevin Currie - P Dave Winthrop** - w
Mark V 1973 Roger Hodgson - V,G,K Rick Davies - V,K Dougie Thomson - B Bob Siebenberg - D,P Dave Winthrop** - w	Mark VI 1973 - 1983 Roger Hodgson - V,G,K Rick Davies - V,K Dougie Thomson - B Bob Siebenberg - D,P John Helliwell - K,S,w **	Mark VII 1983 - 1988 Rick Davies - V,K Dougie Thomson - B Bob Siebenberg - D,P John Helliwell - K,S,w	Mark VIII 1996 - 1997 Rick Davies - V,K Mark Hart - V,K,G Carl Verheyen - G Cliff Hugo - B Bob Siebenberg** - D,P Tom Walsh - P John Helliwell** - K,S,w Lee Thornburg - t,t **
Mark IX 1997 - 2002 Rick Davies - V,K Mark Hart - V,K,G Carl Verheyen - G Jesse Siebenberg - G,P Cliff Hugo - B Bob Siebenberg** - D,P John Helliwell - K,S,w Lee Thornburg - t,t	Mark X 2010 - 2011 Rick Davies - V,K Gabe Dixon - V,K,G Carl Verheyen - G Jesse Siebenberg** - G,P Cliff Hugo - B Bob Siebenberg - D,P John Helliwell - K,S,w Lee Thornburg - t,t Cassie Miller - v **	Mark X 2015 Rick Davies - V,K Gabe Dixon - V,K,G Carl Verheyen - G Jesse Siebenberg - G,P Cliff Hugo - B Bob Siebenberg - D,P John Helliwell - K,S,w Lee Thornburg - t,t Cassie Miller - v
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