“Their albums hadn’t accomplished much. I went to see them and liked them, especially the new songs… I then witnessed their break-up”: How manager Dave Margereson rebuilt Supertramp and helped them deliver a set of classic prog albums

Supertramp and Dave Margereson.

As an A&R executive in the 70s, Dave Margereson identified future stars Queen, Andy Fairweather Low and Gary Moore, among others – but he abandoned the role after bonding with Supertramp just as the group disintegrated. With a character-led management style he turned their fortunes around, helping deliver some of the greatest prog music of the era. In 2016 Margereson told Prog how it had come about.

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