“The fun had gone. The spirit had gone. That album was a final attempt to see if something could be salvaged. It couldn’t”: Why Roger Hodgson had to quit Supertramp in the ’80s – after writing and singing their biggest hits

Supertramp.

In 1979, British rock band Supertramp were on top of the world. Their album Breakfast In America held the No 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for six weeks, powered by a top 10 single, The Logical Song, that was also a smash hit back home in the UK and all around Europe.

By 1983, however, the wheels had come off, as the follow-up to Breakfast In America flopped and the group’s co-founder Roger Hodgson quit for a solo career.