Rick Davies, Supertramp Co-Founder and Singer, Dies at 81 – Entertainment News
By Karen Beishuizen
The voice of Supertramp is gone.
Rick Davies died on Saturday, 6 September. He was 81.
The keyboardist co-wrote many of the group’s biggest songs, including “Goodbye Stranger,” “Breakfast in America,” and “Bloody Well Right”.
He founded the band in 1969 with Richard Palmer, Robert Millar and Roger Hodgson by placing an ad in Melody Maker and named it after the book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by Welsh author William Henry Davies.
The commercial breakthrough came with 1974’s “Crime of the Century” with the Davies-penned hits “Bloody Well Right” and “Crime of the Century,” and the Hodgson-penned “Dreamer”.
“Breakfast in America”, the band’s sixth album, went quadruple platinum and won two Grammy Awards alongside an Album of the Year nomination.
My personal favorites are “It’s Raining Again” and “School”, I just adore these songs.
Rick Davies is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Sue.
Ringside Report sends their condoleances to The Davies Family in their time of grief.
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