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3 It was the first charting hit, reaching #13 in the UK and #15 (a live single version) in the US.

So much so he ends up withdrawing more and more into himself (Hide in your Shell) and going a bit mad (Asylum…

Asylum Lyrics: Jimmy Cream was keen, his brain was always winnin' / I can't keep tabs on mine – it's really quite a joke / I see him down the road, I ask if he'd be willing / To lend me 15p – I'm

Supertramp are a British group playing a mix of Released in the summer of 1979, Thirty-four years on – and 30 since he exited Supertramp – Roger Hodgson still sings Most importantly of all for Hodgson, it’s a song that has lost none of its meaning. And in that moment, the whole concept for the song came into focus. “I was the main arranger in the band,” he says.

Supertramp are a British group playing a mix of



One of his ideas, a prison cell window floating in space with a person silently screaming through the bars, was approved by the band, and when Wakefield started to develop the idea, he reduced the prisoner to just hands clutching the bars, "a resignation to fate that the other didn’t have. The album's dedication reads "To Sam", which is a nickname for After the failure of their first two albums and an unsuccessful tour, Supertramp broke up; The album was recorded at several studios, including Due to a contractual agreement, all the songs are credited jointly to the two writers, but some of the songs were written individually.

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“So we put it in the run-out after I sang the word ‘digital’.”Due to Hodgson’s perfectionism, it took two weeks for the final mix of the song to be completed. Supertramp are a British group playing a mix of







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Crime of the Century is the third studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in September 1974 on A&M Records. With the album title already chosen, Wakefield started asking himself "what an appropriate sentence could be for 'the crime of the century'" and combined it with a line from the song "Asylum": "when they haunt me and taunt me in my cage." “I used to go through all the parts, even down to drum fills. SUPERTRAMP Asylum Lyrics. Get track However, as Hodgson says now: “ Immediately, Hodgson reeled off words that rhymed: intellectual, radical… logical.


I’ve always been able to express my innermost feelings more openly in song and "Hide in Your Shell" came to me at a time when I was feeling very lonely – lonely both in life and within the band – with no one who shared my spiritual quest. © Ever since Supertramp formed in 1969, it was Hodgson and Rick Davies who formed the band’s creative nucleus.



It was the first charting hit, reaching #13 in the UK and #15 (a live single version School Lyrics: I can see you in the morning when you go to school / Don't forget your books, you know you've gotta learn the golden rule / Teacher tells you stop your playing and get on with your