My career in five songs

Breakfast Special Super’ trouper: keyboard king Rick ...

Songwriting partnerships walk a delicate line between inspired and volatile. During Supertramp ’s most commercially successful period, Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson’s working relationship created some of their best-loved material. We look back on Rick Davies’ finest musical moments and discover what Hodgson considers to be “the best thing” Rick ever did.

When Supertramp co-founder Rick Davies ’ death was announced in September, the prog world mourned the loss of a great talent. We pay tribute to the British-born singer-songwriter by looking back over his remarkable career, which spanned nearly six decades, and place some of his best-loved songs under the microscope.

Lees, Holroyd, Wolstenholme and Pritchard; you might think it sounds like a legal firm in, say, Oldham, Lancashire. And you’d be right about the Oldham part. John Lees (guitar), Les Holroyd (bass), St

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