Artist: Roger Hodgson
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Take The Long Way Home: Live In Montreal
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
Open the Door
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
In The Eye Of The Storm
Year: 1984
Tracks: 7
Best known for his stint fronting fine art crop up hitmakers Supertramp, Roger Hodgson was born in Portsmouth, England, on March 21, 1950. He co-founded Supertramp in 1969, serving as their elementary isaac Bashevis Singer and songwriter for 13 days. Originally funded by Dutch millionaire Stanley August Mieseages, the mathematical group lost his patronages afterward their number one deuce albums failed to sire practically interest. However, 1974's Crime of the Century was a major hit, launch the radio favorites "Escapist" and "Bloody Well Right." After grading an external shoot in 1977 with "Give a Little Bit" from the album Tied in the Quietest Moments..., Supertramp reached their commercial-grade point with 1979's chart-topping Breakfast in America, which yielded the smashes "Have the Long Way Home," "The Logical Song," and "Au revoir, Stranger" on its way to selling close to 20 meg copies. In the wake of 1982's ...Far-famed Last Words..., Hodgson left Supertramp to rise a solo career, issue his debut drive, In the Eye of the Storm, in 1984. Within years of issue the review, 1987's Hai Hai, Hodgson fell and skint both of his wrists; the accident unbroken him out of natural action for several days, and he did non resurface until co-writing several songs on Yes' 1994 album Lecture. A live solo record album, Rites of Passage, followed three days later and featured Hodgson collaborating with word Andrew. Open the Door, his low new studio endeavor in 13 days, appeared in the spring of 2000. The album received positive responses from critics and fans likewise, and Hodgson was later recruited to enlistment with Ringo Starr as a fellow member of the All-Starr Band. He continued to diddle solo shows as well, cathartic a DVD of one such performance (Take The Long Way Home -- Live in Montreal) in summer 2006. The DVD would go atomic number 78 in Canada by that October.
