Supertramp

Rick Davies, co-founder, keyboardist and vocalist of art rock legends Supertramp, has died at the age of 81. The band confirmed the news on social media. Their statement reads:"Rick Davies, founder, lead singer and songwriter of…

Of all the Supertramp albums, »...Famous Last Words...« had the most untapped potential. With more commitment from the whole band, it could have been a much better record than it ended up being.

For Supertramp, breakfast in the heart of exploitative capitalism, a system they never went easy on in their lyrics, went down a treat. With »Breakfast in America« they stormed the top of the world's charts with hit after hit and made an…

»Brother Where You Bound«, the last Supertramp album still worth the attention of every music connoisseur, marked the start of a new era in which things for this legendary band slowly started going downhill.

Sure, »Crisis? What Crisis?« is nowhere near the quality of its predecessor »Crime Of the Century«, but it's far from the misfire that some members of the band (even former ones) still consider it to be today.

With a masterpiece like "Crime of the Century", you'd struggle to pile up enough superlatives to do justice to the quality and importance of the most significant record in this legendary band's career.

Despite the low commercial profile it had when it came out, "Indelibly Stamped" is an interesting record that shows a young band still hunting for its own sound, just before its big artistic breakthrough.

On their excellent debut, Supertramp showed up as big-time melancholics who, right from the start of their career, were already hunting for a wholly their own, instantly recognizable take on progressive rock.