Goodbye stranger

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When Supertramp co-founder Rick Davies’ death was announced in September,

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Prog Magazine

17 October, 2025

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Real gone

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“the best thing he’s ever done!”

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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“it’s an honest, autobiographical album.”

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.