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‘Please Tell Me Who I Am’: Roger Hodgson’s Boarding-School Years and the Making of Supertramp’s ‘The Logical Song’
“Please Tell Me Who I Am”: Roger Hodgson’s Boarding-School Years and the Making of Supertramp’s “The Logical Song” “When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful / A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.” So begins one of the most famous opening verses in rock history — a child’s memory of pure…
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Supertramp: The Hearts Behind the Harmony — Rick, Roger, and the Men Between the Voices
Supertramp’s music was about the distance between people — between dreamers and realists, between schoolboys and the system, between the logical song and the heart that refused to sing it. Offstage, the band lived that distance. Its two founders were opposites who never became friends. Its drummer was a Californian among Englishmen. Its saxophonist recorded…
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How Supertramp Created “Breakfast in America”: Nine Months in a Los Angeles Studio
By 1978, Supertramp were in trouble, and they knew it. Punk and disco had made their meticulous prog-pop deeply unfashionable. Their two songwriters — Roger Hodgson, the spiritual dreamer, and Rick Davies, the sardonic realist — were barely speaking. Their label needed a blockbuster. So the five members of the band did what they had…
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The Untold Story of Supertramp: The Dutch Millionaire, the Breakfast-Table Manhattan, and the Handshake That Broke
They were the unlikeliest hitmakers of the seventies: a band with two singers, two songwriters, and two completely different personalities, making progressive rock you could hum. Supertramp sold more than sixty million albums on the strength of a Wurlitzer electric piano, a saxophone, and songs about school, sanity, and the American dream. But behind the…