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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
{{discography}}
* ''Supertramp'' (1970)
* ''Indelibly Stamped'' (1971)
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* ''Slow Motion'' (2002)
* ''Paris'' (1980)
* ''Live '88'' ([[Captain Obvious|1988]])
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* ''70-10 Tour'' (2010)
* ''The Autobiography'' (1986)
* ''The Very Best of Supertramp'' (1990)
* ''The Very Best of Supertramp 2'' (1992)
* ''Retrospectacle'' (2005)
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* [[And That's Terrible]]: From "Crime of the Century"
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''How they rape the Universe
''[[And That's Terrible|Now they've gone from]] [[It Got Worse|bad to worse.]] }}
* [[Assimilation Academy]]: "School", which is the page quote.
* [[Because I Said So]]: "School" even provides the page quote.
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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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* [[Long Runner Lineup]]: From the revamp to Hodgson's exit was 11 years with the same band.
* [[Loss of Identity]]: "The Logical Song", again.
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''I know it sounds absurd
''Please tell me who I am }}
* [[Non-Appearing Title]]: "The Logical Song", "Breakfast In America", "Gone Hollywood", "A Soapbox Opera", "Fool's Overture", "Downstream".
* [[Not Staying for Breakfast]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|In America]]: "Goodbye Stranger"
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* [[Red Scare]]: "Brother Where You Bound", complete with excerpts from George Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''.
* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: "Breakfast In America" is not "Take a Look at My Girlfriend".
* [[Rhymes
* [[Rhyming
* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Take the Long Way Home"
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: Asylum
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* [[The Something Song]]: "The Logical Song"
* [[When She Smiles]]: "Know Who You Are"
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* [[Vocal Tag Team]]
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: "Hide In Your Shell."
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