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"The Logical Song" was written primarily by Roger Hodgson, the lyrics based on his experience of being sent away to boarding school for ten years. [3] It was a very personal song for Hodgson; he had worked on the song during soundchecks, and completed the lyrics and arrangement six months before proposing it to the band for the album. [4]
"When We Were Young (The Logical Song)" is a song by French DJ and producer David Guetta and German singer and songwriter Kim Petras, released as a single on 10 November 2023 through What a DJ and Warner Music UK. It was written by Guetta, Jakke Erixson, Madison Love, Nick Long and Roger Davies, and produced by Guetta and Erixson.
In the UK, "The Logical Song" and the title track were both top 10 hits, the only two the group had in their native country. [ 6 ] At the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards in 1980, Breakfast in America won two awards for Best Album Package and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording , as well as nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop ...
The album spawned four successful singles (more than their first five albums combined): three of Hodgson's songs, "The Logical Song" (number 1 Canada, number 6 US, number 7 UK), "Take the Long Way Home" (number 4 Canada, number 10 US, not released in UK) and "Breakfast in America" (number 9 UK, not released in the US or Canada) and Davies ...
[citation needed] From that same album, "The Logical Song", written by Hodgson, is Supertramp's biggest chart hit in both the US and UK. In 1980, Hodgson was honoured with the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters for "The Logical Song" being named the best song both musically and lyrically. To this day, "The ...
"When We Were Young" (Take That song), 2011 "When We Were Young" (Dillon Francis and Sultan + Shepard song), 2014 "When We Were Young" (Adele song), 2015 "When We Were Young" (Passenger song), 2016 "When We Were Young", a song on the 1984 album Close Company by Lou Rawls "When We Were Young", a song on the 1995 album Heartworm by Whipping Boy
British progressive rock band Supertramp scored the Canada number-one year-end hit of 1979 with "The Logical Song". RPM was a Canadian music magazine that published the bestselling singles chart in Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1979, twenty-eight singles reached number one in Canada.
To capitalise on the success of "The Logical Song" in the UK, a different version of the album was released there titled Push the Beat for This Jam (The Singles '94–'02). Released on 29 July 2002, it was certified Gold by the BPI on 23 August 2002, [3] reaching a high of number six on the UK Albums Chart. [4]