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This song takes me back to when I was young and free and had none of the responsibilities or regrets of what is now my middle age. This song has become my mantra. As a single person, I can relate to the lyrics, "When the time comes to settle down, who's to blame if you're not around."
Much like "The Logical Song", it uses a Wurlitzer electric piano as the main instrument. After the lyrical part, the song goes into a long solo played on the grand piano alongside the original melody on the Wurlitzer. The track fades out with a short saxophone solo by John Helliwell. Roger Hodgson has said that the song was written to be an equivalent to "Gone Hollywood", looking at how Americans live, though he confessed that he had only a limited familiarity with US culture at the time of writing. He also said there is a slight possibility that he subconsciously had Rick Davies in mind while writing the lyrics.
Breakfast in America
Billboard writer David Farrell felt that, other than Davies' lead vocal, the song sounds like a Queen song. You might have the Hola VPN extension installed. This company sells your internet traffic to other people, meaning that other people can use your IP address and can break some of the above rules, causing you to be blocked from this site. You requested a very large number of pages in a very short time, causing problems for our server (this can happen if you hit 'refresh' over and over). If you are looking for one of the best in vinyl sound of this particular LP this is the one to choose.
In the 1987 edition of The World Critics List, music critic Joel Whitburn ranked Breakfast in America the fourth-greatest album of all time. In the 1994 edition of The Guinness All Time Top 1000 Albums, Breakfast in America was voted No. 207 in the all-time greatest rock and pop albums, and it was voted the 69th-greatest British rock album of all time in a 2006 Classic Rock industry poll. Triple M listeners voted the album No. 43 in the "100 Greatest Albums of All Time". Recognising the band's disfavour among music critics during their career, Q magazine ranked Breakfast in America second on its "Records it's OK to Love" list in 2006.In 2000 it was voted No. 294 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. "Child of Vision" is the closing track.
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In an interview with a Danish tv network, Roger cited the need to be a regular father as the reason he decided to leave the band in 1983. Nowadays, we have the Supertramp camp saying Roger is stealing Supertramp songs for his use on tour. Roger wrote his songs and Rick Davies wrote his songs - it would be nice if the side could come to a reconciliation but it doesn't look promising. Anyway, enjoy the songs, they are amazing works of art. Each song was credited to a single musician on the inner sleeve, but on the central vinyl label was printed "Words and Music by Roger Hodgson & Rick Davies", combining the two and confusing the issue of composition credit.
If they resembled anyone it was Pink Floyd in that they were anonymous musicians whose focus was the song, but they didn’t have the Floyd’s mythic allure. Instead, they were a motley crew – the bluff, working class Davies and the public school-educated Hodgson , plus a Scot , a Yorkshireman and a Californian – who had been assembled for solely pragmatic reasons. They weren’t a gang of mates who had known each other since school days, and there was none of that sense of shared history. But Breakfast In America eclipsed anything they had done before and skyrocketed the band into the commercial stratosphere.
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To grow, they have to realize there is more to life than just work. This song reminds me of my brother, who excelled at work but because his wife had become unpleasant would try to work all the holidays and overtime he could get, plus he would take the longest route home after work so as to shorten the amount of time he had to spend with her. They have since divorced after she left him.
We, all of us, are already there. In our hearts and in love we can find home at any time. So we don’t have to take the long way, struggle for attention, success, recognition, home. I can absolutely understand why he turned down the 5 mil offer. Putting the song in a commercial would greatly cheapen the song and it's message, which is loved by millions of people around the world.
“The sessions were even longer and more tedious than usual,” laughs Helliwell. “We spent hours and hours in the studio; it would take a week getting the right drum sounds.” He was particularly peeved at the presence of Hodgson’s device for producing the optimum air quality. Helliwell, however, maintains that, despite these rumours, the band were too intent on coming up with their greatest collection of material to allow personal or musical differences to get in the way. They even indulged in extracurricular activities together, such as playing football matches with local superstar and new best mate Rod Stewart, during which Helliwell acted as referee. A higher plane, but spacey – he had spiritual yearnings,” says Helliwell, whose swirling sax provided Breakfast...
After sometime one guy reveals to his friend that he is just unhappy with his life, and realize "..is this how its suppose to be?" Never expecting the dulldrums of middle age and marriage life, and tries to escape it by being among the crowd who appreciates him on the surface. The narrative of the song would by his friend who knows him well, tries to console him, as best as a guy could. Not having any real answers to his problem he gets to enjoy their moment together - in the now.
John Doran of BBC Music said that the songwriting has an "unbeatable quality" and asserted that "any of the ten tracks could have been hit singles". Sputnikmusic's Tyler Fisher said that its singles are mostly the highlights because of their "catchy hooks", and found the ballads "absolutely terrible". By 2010, the album had sold well over 20 million copies. The first album by the five-piece, 1974’s Crime Of The Century, was hailed as a minor masterpiece of acerbic songcraft and dexterous musicianship, and it featured many of Supertramp’s finest songs, including School and Bloody Well Right as well as Dreamer, their first UK Top 20 hit. And although the follow-up, 1975’s Crisis? 2010 deluxe editionA deluxe edition was released on 4 October 2010, including a second disc with songs recorded live in 1979, in particular songs not appearing on the live album Paris.
With one of its signature sounds, along with those staccato Wurlitzer electric piano chords and Hodgson’s inimitable falsetto. It was in the build-up to Breakfast... That Hodgson fell in with a religious group who ran a commune in northern California.
"French album certifications – Supertramp – Breakfast in America" . "Canadian album certifications – Supertramp – Breakfast in America". The album's front cover resembles an overlook of Manhattan through an aeroplane window. It was designed by Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty.
2002 reissueOn 11 June 2002 A&M Records reissued Breakfast in America with full original album art, plus the label art from side one recreated on the CD. It was mastered from the original master tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, 2002. The reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson with art direction by Vartan and design by Mike Diehl, with production coordination by Beth Stempel.
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