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Rick Davies, who was a founding member of the 70s British rock band Supertramp, has died at age 81. Following a battle with cancer, the singer-songwriter passed away in his Long Island home on Friday. The sad news was announced in a statement from the band, which gave its condolences to Rick's widow Sue. Rick co-founded Supertramp in 1970 alongside fellow singer-songwriter Roger Hodgson. They later enlisted Dougie Thomson, Bob Siebenberg, and John Helliwell, performing together from 1973 to 1983. The Supertramp Partnership is very sad to announce the death of the Supertramp founder, Rick Davies after a long illness....

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...

Supertramp in 1979

It's snowing, sleeting, icing and doing other global warming type things in Connecticut so I decided to start a blog so that I could post stuff there and then link it here to Free Republic where all you people would click the link and send me revenue. But it's almost 8pm and I don't have the energy for opening the GoDaddy account apparently necessary for starting such blog so I'm just going to go ahead and post the entire comments of my blog tonight here. Now I have a bit of an interesting piece of trivia concerning the hit song...

"You better watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical…" — Supertramp's Logical Song In the past, women ruled the home, taking primary responsibility for raising the children. In that same past, men ruled the workplace. Every workplace. Without exception. Two distinct spheres, each ruled by one sex. Some seek a return of that past, wanting women completely out of the workforce. This is based upon the premise that these roles, women as caregivers and nothing else, and men as providers and nothing else, were best for society in the first place. That premise is infinitely...