Rick Davies, Supertramp lead singer and co-founder, dies at 81

Goodbye stranger, it's been nice.

Hope he finds his paradise.....

He took the long way home.......

Bloody well right

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful.........

I have a soft spot for the music of Supertramp.

Childhood? More like high school

Wow. My exbf from last year - a Brit in his mid 30s - loved Supertramp. He went back to England. It’s raining again. Oh will my heart ever mend? It hasn’t.

The majority of the most iconic Supertramp songs were written and composed by band co-founder Rodger Hodgson, who also sang lead for those songs: "Dreamer," "Breakfast in America," "Give a Little Bit," "The Logical Song," "Take The Long Way Home," "It's Raining Again," "Fool's Overture," "School," "Hide in Your Shell," "Lovers in the Wind," "Lord is it Mine" and more.

Rick Davies certainly deserves his accolades for his contributions, writing, composing, and singing the lead for the following songs:

Bloody Well Right Crime of the Century Goodbye Stranger Rudy Asylum Summer Romance Another Man’s Woman Ain’t Nobody But Me Poor Boy Lover Boy Downstream From Now On Casual Conversations Gone Hollywood Just Another Nervous Wreck Oh Darling You Started Laughing Put on Your Brown Shoes Bonnie My Kind of Lady Waiting So Long

Jointly Authored by Davies & Hodgson: Just a Normal Day School

Without Hodgson, Supertramp would not have reached the heights it did.

I think the article in the OP did not make that clear.

Sorry about the messy listing of the songs on R8. It was a copy/paste job of a column listing on the page linked on the bottom of that comment.

Songs written, composed, and sung by Rick Davies:

Bloody Well Right, Crime of the Century, Goodbye Stranger, .Rudy, Asylum, Summer Romance, Another Man’s Woman, Ain’t Nobody But Me, Poor Boy, Lover Boy, Downstream, From Now On, Casual Conversations, Gone Hollywood, Just Another Nervous Wreck, Oh Darling, You Started Laughing, Put on Your Brown Shoes, Bonnie, My Kind of Lady, Waiting So Long

Is this the band that had the run in with Vicki Lawrence recently?

That was Air Supply R10.

Apples and excrement …

I hate this band.

Hope he had kippers for breakfast.

#2: beautiful (the only word) Jacques Charrier, actor and ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot.

Who will #3 be?

Every song in Breakfast in America is good. I hadn’t listened to it in 30 years. Did today

I saw them in concert, the Breakfast tour.

Where were you?

I hated high school, and everyone in high school loved Supertramp's Breakfast in America album. It ranks up there with Hotel California as one of my most hated albums.

Montreal r18. The venue wasn't great for acoustics- Jarry Park

I really grown to begrudgingly love Supertramp, fuck, i'll go as far as the post-schism years with the disco singles,

I had two of their albums, Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America. At times I found them too synthy-keyboardy and lost interest for years but rediscovered them about ten years ago. They were huge in Montreal in the 1970s, especially among Francophones.

Fool's Overture is perhaps the greatest synth composition ever produced.

R23, one of the Canadian morning news shows used it as their theme for a few years.

When it came out, Paul McCartney praised The Logical Song. That must have made their day.