History Music / Supertramp

* Bob Siebenberg – Drums, percussion

* Homage: "My Kind of Lady" was done in a style of 50's rock/doo-wop bands. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FXu6bv_8k The video really amplifies the style.]]

* OrWasItADream: "Even In The Quietest Moments" has the singer asking this question at the end of the song

* BrilliantButLazy: Deconstructed with "Dreamer", as the person in the song continues to dream on instead on acting on his thoughts. Thus wasting his life while doing nothing noteworthy.

* CaptivityHarmonica: "School"
* TheCasanova: "Lover Boy"

* CreatorBreakdown: Many of their well-known songs involved Davies and Hodgson taking shots at each other.

* NonAppearingTitle: "The Logical Song", "Breakfast In America", "Gone Hollywood", "A Soapbox Opera", "Fool's Overture", "Downstream".

* Richard Palmer-James – Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, balalaika[[hottip:*:If you're wondering what a balalaika is, it's a kind of Russian stringed instrument with a triangular body and three strings.]]

* EndingFatigue/EpicInstrumentalOpener: Their album closers usually contain one of these, many cases, the ending or the opener lasts ''half the song''.

--> [[AndThatsTerrible Now they've gone from]] [[ItGotWorse bad to worse.]]

* {{Casanova}}: "Lover Boy"

* NotStayingForBreakfast [[AWorldwidePunomenon In America]]: "Goodbye Stranger"

* NamesTheSame: "Lover Boy" is also a BillyOcean song. "Oh! Darling" by TheBeatles is similar in title to "Oh Darling". And on a different note, Rick Davies has the same surname as [[TheKinks Ray and Dave]] but is completely unrelated.

* SampledUp: Gym Class Heroes sampled "Breakfast in America" in "Cupid's Chokehold". The quality of the sampling (actually a newly recorded cover of the first few lines by [[FallOutBoy Patrick Stump]]) is...[[YourMileageMayVary debatable]].

* YokoOhNo: Roger Hodgson has cited Rick Davies' wife managing the band as one of the reasons for leaving and not participating in the reunions.

* NamesTheSame: "Lover Boy" is also a BillyOcean song. "Oh! Darling" by TheBeatles is similar in title to "Oh Darling".

* GenreShift: They started out as a Prog Rock band, but as time went on, they became more [[{{Pop}} poppy]], culminating in their extremely poppy Breakfast in America.

* DespairEventHorizon: "If Everyone Was Listening," "Lord Is It Mine," arguably "Rudy."
* EpicRiff: Usually on ''electric piano''. "Dreamer", "Bloody Well Right", "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger".
** "Give A Little Bit" has one on acoustic 12-string guitar.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: On the original Lyrics sheet insert for ''Crime of The Century'' (the album), Roger Hodgson's vocals are colored white, and Rick Davies' yellow.

Supertramp is a British ProgressiveRock band, that was big in the [[TheSeventies 70s]] and [[TheEighties 80s]], with such songs as "The Logical Song", "Breakfast in America", and "Take The Long Way Home", all three of which appeared on what is considered their greatest album, ''Breakfast In America''. [[FaceOfTheBand Their most well-known members]] are singers and multiinstrumentalists Roger Hodgson (who left in 1983) and Rick Davies (still in the band).

* NonAppearingTitle: "The Logical Song", "Breakfast In America", "Gone Hollywood", "A Soapbox Opera", "Fool's Overture".

* ParodyOfEvolution: ''Brother Where Are You Bound''

* AssimilationAcademy: "School"

* BookEnds: ''Crime of the Century'' opens and ends with a harmonica solo of "School", and their debut album features one version of the song "Surely" at each end.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Breakfast In America" is not Take a Look at My Girlfriend.

* TheTropeSong: "The Logical Song"