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'''Supertramp''' is a British [[Progressive Rock]] band, that was big in the [[The Seventies|70s]] and [[The Eighties|80s]], with such songs as "The Logical Song", "Breakfast in America", and "Take The Long Way Home", all three of which appeared on what is considered their greatest album, ''Breakfast in America''. [[Face of the Band|Their most well-known members]] are singers and multi-instrumentalists Roger Hodgson (who left in 1983) and Rick Davies (still in the band).
== Current members
* Rick Davies – Vocals, keyboards, harmonica, composition, saxophone
* John Helliwell – Vocals, woodwinds, keyboards, synthesisers
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* Cassie Miller – Background vocals
== Former members
* Roger Hodgson – Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, cello, flute, composition
* Dougie Thomson – Bass, backing vocals
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* Frank Farrell – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
== Studio albums to date
* ''Supertramp'' (1970)
* ''Indelibly Stamped'' (1971)
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* ''Slow Motion'' (2002)
== Live albums to date
* ''Paris'' (1980)
* ''Live '88'' ([[Captain Obvious|1988]])
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* ''70-10 Tour'' (2010)
== Compilation albums to date
* ''The Autobiography'' (1986)
* ''The Very Best of Supertramp'' (1990)
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* ''Retrospectacle'' (2005)
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=== They provide examples of
* [[And That's Terrible]]: From "Crime of the Century"
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* [[Fake-Out Fade-Out]]: "Lover Boy".
** and "Fool's Overture," which fades out right before the singing starts.
* [[Genre Shift]]: They started out as a Prog Rock band, but as time went on, they became more [[
* [[Go Among Mad People]]: "Asylum"
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: "The Logical Song"
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* [[Here We Go Again]]: Hey, hey, hah-oh, lah-la, hey-hey. Give a little bit. Give a little bit of your love to me...
* [[Horrible Hollywood]]: "Gone Hollywood".
* [[Humans Are
* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: The page quote is from "The Logical Song".
* [[Last-Note Nightmare]]: "If Everyone Was Listening" ends with foreboding strings. Also, the [[Fake-Out Fade-Out]] in "Lover Boy" is [[Jump Scare|very abrupt]].
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