One of the greats of progressive rock, the British group Supertramp has formed London in the year 1969 from Rick Davies And Roger Hodgson. Over the years, the band’s lineup has undergone some changes until it reaches its ideal format with the bass player Dougie Thomsonthe drummer Bob Sienbenberg and the saxophonist John Hellwell – this, granted an exclusive interview to The Brazil music newspaper in 2011.
Despite coming under some pressure for results from their record company, the A&M RecordsOR super tramp enters a phase where he produces great albums between 1974 and 1982 with compositions signed by Davies And Hodgson which have become true rock classics, like Dreamer, Crime of the Century, Rudy, Hide in the Shell, There is no one but me, Give a little, From now on, The logical song, Goodbye unknown, Breakfast in America, Take the long way back to home, It’s raining again And My kind of lady.
And justice be done when considering the great compositions of Rick Davies And Roger Hodgson which became real gems in their albums, which figured as B-side. I’m:sylum, If Everyone Was Listening, School, Babaji, Lover Boy, Fool’s Overture, Oh Darling, Gone Hollywood, Just another nervous wreck, Son of sight, The lord is mine, Crazy, Put on your old brown shoes, Bonnie, C ‘est le bon And do not leave me Now.
Departure of Roger Hodgson and driven by Rick Davies with new sounds
after leaving Roger Hodgson after a show in Munich, Germanymade in 1983, the super tramp took the lead Rick Davies who has always had blues and jazz to guide his musical trajectory, as evidenced in some of the band’s classical compositions. With Brother where are you headed 1985, the first without Hodgson and which was among the 25 best-selling albums on the Billboard 200 that year, the super tramp presented an album praised by specialized critics with a sound focused on progressive rock, but the song Cannon ball he seemed to sense changes in the group.
I once asked John Hellwellwho gave me an exclusive interview in 2011, if there was still any chance of doing so Rick Davies And Roger Hodgson get together again for a special meeting of the super tramp with show a Brazil. The iconic saxophonist replied: “I don’t think a meeting between Rick and Roger would be possible because Roger, perhaps, wants a lot of control. Rick and the band would like to come to Brazil. Maybe at some point (….)”.
In October 1987 this change was confirmed with the album Free as a birdwhere the title track became the big hit of the album (being the theme of the soap opera Everything is alright Globe in Brazil) full of romance. However, on the other tracks on the album, songs like I am begging you And Not the time, this musical change was evident, but always with the DNA of the talented composer and multi-instrumentalist Rick Davies, who would record two more albums with the super tramp: Some things never change (1997) and slow motion (2002), until leaving the group in 2015, when they would have toured 40 years of the bandat the diagnosis of a cancer.
In Brazil, one of the most famous collections of super tramp was Supertramp’s autobiographylaunched by Polygram (now Universal Music), via A&M Records which was internationally known as A&M classics vol. 9.
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Source: Terra
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