{"id":15880,"date":"2025-09-08T17:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:41:57","slug":"rick-davies-co-founder-and-singer-of-supertramp-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=15880","title":{"rendered":"Rick Davies, co-founder and singer of Supertramp, dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by:\u00a0Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

editors note: I consider Breakfast in America one of my all time favorite recording of my life. I still play it regularly and know every note of every song from my early teen years. – az<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies, who co-wrote the band\u2019s music with Roger Hodgson, was \u201cthe voice and pianist behind Supertramp\u2019s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,\u201d the band said in a statement on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade, the band said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies and Hodgson formed Supertramp in 1969, and produced hits including \u201cGoodbye Stranger,\u201d \u201cThe the Long Way Home,\u201d \u201cThe Logical Song,\u201d and \u201cGive a Little Bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band\u2019s 1979 album \u201cBreakfast in America\u201d topped charts in the United States and Canada, won two Grammys and sold over 18 million copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies\u2019 \u201csoulful vocals and unmistakable touch on the Wurlitzer became the heartbeat of the bands\u2019 sound,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Swindon, England in 1944, Davies had a passion for jazz, blues and rock and roll from a young age, the band said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hodgson left the band in 1983 and released solo albums. Supertramp disbanded in 1988, though Davies revived it in 1996. The group performed for the last time in Madrid in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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