"It must be odd to have been a band's co-founder and joint frontman and to know that when thousands of people came to see you, they did so on condition that not only did you play songs you neither wrote nor sung, but had also initially agreed not to perform. That was what happened to Rick Davies, who formed Supertramp with Roger Hodgson in 1970. Hodgson left the band in 1983 on the agreement that he took his songs, and Davies took the name."
"It was fitting though, because the tension between Davies and Hodgson was very much the driving force of Supertramp. Davies loved jazz and blues, whereas Hodgson was in love with pop. And it was in the combination of their two impulses that Supertramp found their greatest success. If you were to define a Supertramp sound it would be Hodgson's keen tenor backed by Davies' burbling keys: Hodgson may have written the band's biggest hits, but Davies supplied their shape."
Rick Davies co-founded Supertramp with Roger Hodgson in 1970 and assumed the band's name after Hodgson left in 1983 under an agreement that Hodgson took his songs. Touring under the Supertramp name proved impossible without Hodgson-penned hits such as The Logical Song, Dreamer and Breakfast in America, so Davies performed those songs despite Hodgson's irritation. The creative tension between Davies and Hodgson, Davies favoring jazz and blues and Hodgson favoring pop, shaped the band's sound: Hodgson's tenor and songwriting paired with Davies' keyboards and structural contributions. Davies grew up in Swindon and discovered music after hearing Gene Krupa at age eight.
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