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With the sad news of founding member and vocalist Rick Davies passing away, I was reminded about what a fantastic and unique band Supertramp were/are.

I only started getting into them a few years ago. I don’t think there is another band that sounds anything like them.

My favourite songs - School, Crime of the Century, The Logical Song, Breakfast in America, Goodbye Stranger

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑08 Sep 2025, 13:10 love them due to my dad. crime of the century is one of my favourite albums, asylum sums up supporting west ham

love them due to my dad. crime of the century is one of my favourite albums, asylum sums up supporting west ham

I've wanted to dislike them but never could bring myself around to. 

RIP

Great band. I've only recently got properly into them.

Sad to hear of Rick Davies' demise.

Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America are both great albums

The original Diamond Dogs cover was a gatefold with a picture comprising of Bowie from the torso up and a great Dane making up the bottom half of the beast with some very large genitalia in full view.
Collectors pay a fortune for a copy and Danny Baker is said to have one of the very few that exist.

Even covers like Roxy's Country Life wouldnt see the light of day now.
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Iron Duke" wrote: ↑08 Sep 2025, 10:28 I remember thumbing through my elder brother’s albums and discovering the cover for the Scorpions LP Lovedrive. The picture is of a man and woman in the back of a car, with the man stretching bubble gum off the woman’s breast. They even had a special effect to make the bubble gum sticky.

I remember thumbing through my elder brother’s albums and discovering the cover for the Scorpions LP Lovedrive. The picture is of a man and woman in the back of a car, with the man stretching bubble gum off the woman’s breast. They even had a special effect to make the bubble gum sticky.

Bungo.

I remember the cover of ' Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'.
Scared the shit out of me at 11 years old.

I remember going through my elder sister's LPs at a pretty early age, and being absolutely spellbound by the cover of Crime of The Century, my imagination running wild about what would have been going on behind this image. 

She also had a copy of Brain Salad Surgery which was pretty mindblowing too. An early taster of the mind and style behind all the Alien film visual design a few years later.

Amazing the power of those album covers when you are young.

Long way home

I'm my youth I used to laugh at the likes of Supertramp but once I grew up I saw sense. Breakfast in America is one of my favourites albums. RIP

I didn't know he'd passed away, I absolutely love Supertramp.. R.I.P

Buried In America? The Biological Song? In an Even Quieter Moment? Nah! 

Goodbye Stranger.

One of my favourite bands - always worth a listen, Paris is a good shout on a top live album; the associated video ain't too bad, either.

RIP to (yet) another contributor to the aural tapestry against which I grew up.

I am more from the punk / new wave era, but a terrific young band with Supertramp influences are The Lemon Twigs

Led by two very talented young brothers

and RIP to Rick
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Great Band. Paris is one of my favourite ever live albums. Rick Davis was in a band with Gilbert O Sullivan before he left to join Supertramp.

Goodbye Stranger 
Asylum
Hide in your shell

And countless other great songs.

RIP Rick.