Posted on 09/08/2025 8:17:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
LONDON (AP) – Rick Davies, the lead singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81.
Davies, who co-wrote the band’s music with Roger Hodgson, was “the voice and pianist behind Supertramp’s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,” the band said in a statement on its website.
He died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade, the band said.
Davies and Hodgson formed Supertramp in 1969, and produced hits including “Goodbye Stranger” and “The Logical Song.” The band’s 1979 album “Breakfast in America” topped charts in the United States and Canada, won two Grammys and sold over 18 million copies.
Davies’ “soulful vocals and unmistakable touch on the Wurlitzer became the heartbeat of the bands’ sound,” the statement said.
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I liked "Take The Long Way Home."
Huge loss. RIP.
Goodbye stranger it’s been nice…
RIP
I referred to Breakfast in America on the 80s thread before FR was shut down. Guess I overloaded the board.
One band I would have loved to see live in concert, but never did.
Don’t know why they came to mind, yesterday. RIP.
Absolutely, and Electric Light Orchestra!................
RIP
Great rolling bass in many songs. I lost a speaker that managed to vibrate/move off its shelf at high volume and fell to the floor.
Started to listen to “Hide in Your Shell” as a remembrance
I liked the parody, "Took The Wrong Girl Home" :-)
The one thing I had against them, back in the day, was the idea that being conservative was forced on people...
“Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re
acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!”
Peaceful hippies my a$$!
Yep. Got that one too!
Is it just me. I think they had one great album 10 years after they were founded. Then nothing. It was great and had lots of hits. But nothing before or after. They are Britain’s Meatloaf.
That’s a bummer. I know he’d been sick for a while. There’d been talk about him and Roger Hodgson making peace and maybe touring again but his health wasn’t up to. Amazing band.
Please don’t arrange to have me sent to no asylum.
I’m just as sane as anyone.
It’s just a game I play for fun.
They had a great string. First couple of albums were shaky but once the hit Crime of the Century they figured out what they were (a heavily prog influenced pop band). Crisis What Crisis is really good (slight step back from Crime but not much)), Even in the Quietest Moments is excellent, Breakfast in America is of course transcendent. Famous Last Words is really good again. Brother Where You Bound really misses Hodgson’s pop sensibility, it’s got some really good stuff (Cannonball) but gets meanders quite a bit, if you merged that with Hodgson’s first solo album Eye of the Storm you’ve got another great Supertramp album.
And Meatloaf had plenty of good stuff. Bat is lightning in a bottle and you can’t do that twice. But he had a good catalog.
A couple of members (don’t remember which ones) were in a USO show on my ship during a med-cruise back in the 80s.
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