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"Goodbye Stranger" is a song by the English rock band Supertramp; it was written by Rick Davies. [3] The song first appeared on their sixth studio album , Breakfast in America (1979). The lyrics present an "optimistic view from a drifter."
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In the summer of 1997, Supertramp returned to the road, resulting in the live It Was the Best of Times (April 1999). [51] After a three-year hiatus, Supertramp released in April 2002 a new studio album entitled Slow Motion, [52] followed by a 2002 world tour entitled "One More for the Road Tour".
Breakfast in America topped the US Billboard 200 for six weeks and became Supertramp's biggest selling album, while producing four hit singles: "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", "Take the Long Way Home" and the title track. [14] In Japan, the album reached number 1 on the Music Labo chart in 1979. [15]
Hodgson was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, on 21 March 1950, the son of Charles and Jill Hodgson (née Pomfret), and grew up in Oxford. [7] He attended the boarding schools Woodcote House near Windlesham, Surrey, where he was the first boy to learn electric guitar, and Stowe School near Buckingham.
Free as a Bird is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in October 1987, and their last album of new music for A&M Records.. The album was a turn of direction of sorts, with most of the songs stepping back from their progressive rock sound, employing synthesised dance beats and rhythms.
Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso rated it as Supertramp's 8th best song. [6] Gary Graff of Billboard rated "Take the Long Way Home" as Supertramp's 7th best song, noting its "bouncy melody awash with keyboards" and the "rich sax -and- harmonica exchange between [John] Helliwell and [Rick] Davies ."
...Famous Last Words... (stylised in all lowercase) is the seventh studio album by English rock band Supertramp, released in October 1982.It was the studio follow-up to 1979's Breakfast in America and the last album with vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Roger Hodgson, who left the group to pursue a solo career.