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.

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.

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In a state of flux and floundering after the commercial flop of their first two albums, Supertramp were close to throwing in the towel in early 1973. Enter producer du jour Ken Scott, hired in a desperate attempt to harness the creative yin and yang of songwriters Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson. The result was Crime Of The Century, an album that changed everything, and set the group on the pathway to artistic longevity and blockbuster future success.