Live Albums By Supertramp
Supertramp formed in 1969 but they received little success for their first two studio albums.
Before looking at their live albums in detail, it’s useful to look at the timing of their studio albums and hit singles.
Studio Albums By Supertramp
1970 Supertramp
1971 Indelibly Stamped
1974 Crime of the Century
1975 Crisis? What Crisis?
1977 Even in the Quietest Moments…
1979 Breakfast in America
1982 …Famous Last Words…
1985 Brother Where You Bound
1987 Free as a Bird
1997 Some Things Never Change
2002 Slow Motion
Their 20 top hit singles in the UK were:
1974 Dreamer #13
1979 The Logical Song #7
1979 Breakfast In America #9
In the USA, they had a few more top 20 hit singles:
1977 Give A Little Bit #15
1979 The Logical Song #6
1979 Goodbye Stranger #15
1979 Take The Long Way Home #10
1980 Dreamer (live) #15
1982 It’s Raining Again #11
Live Albums By Supertramp
1975 Is Everybody Listening?
1979 Paris
1988 Supertramp Live
1997 It Was The Best of Times
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Live 1997 is a live album by Supertramp.
It was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London on September 19 and 20, 1997.
This is the single CD version of It Was The Best Of Times.
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Live In Paris 79 is a live album and DVD by Supertramp and is an extended version of their first released live album, Paris.
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The Deluxe Edition of Breakfast In America by Supertramp has a second CD of live tracks from 1979.
Their live album Paris was recorded in 1979 but it excluded six songs from the concert which are included in this bonus CD together with other live recorded tracks from 1979. These six tracks are included on the CD/DVD combination Live In Paris ’79 but for those of us who have bought Paris, it is a great chance to get the missing songs.
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Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1975 is a bonus live recording by Supertramp available with the deluxe version of Crime Of The Century.
It was recorded in London in March 1975.
This live recording has previously been released as Is Everybody Listening although the venue and date is incorrectly described on that album.
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Live 1988 is a live album by Supertramp.
It was recorded by the band without founder member Roger Hodgson in the spring of 1988.
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It Was The Best of Times is a live album by Supertramp with Rick Davies but without Roger Hodgson.
It was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London over two nights, the 19th and 20th September 1997.
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Is Everybody Listening is an archive released live album by Supertramp.
There is disagreement about where and when it was recorded.
According to the sleeves notes, it was recorded in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1976 but John Helliwell’s website says that it was recorded on March 9th, 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
“The gig was a last minute add-on to the end of the tour and has become famous or rather perhaps infamous as an illegal bootleg beloved amongst Supertramp fans. It was also briefly commercially released in 2001 as “Is Everybody Listening”. For some bizarre reason the original bootleg erroneously gave the venue for this show as Cleveland, Ohio rather than London, England, a mistake which the 2001 commercial release unfortunately replicated on its own cover notes. ” http://www.johnhelliwell.com/bio2013.php
The 1975 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon has been included in the Deluxe edition of the remastered Crime Of The Century.
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Paris is the first live album released by Supertramp. It was recorded in November 1979 in Paris on the tour to promote their mainstream breakthrough album Breakfast In America.
I remember seeing Supertramp on the Even In The Quietest Moments tour in 1976. I don’t know why but I can remember feeling the bass continually thudding into my chest, something that even Black Sabbath didn’t manage to achieve. Of course, with Sabbath I may have been too worried about protecting my hearing to notice.
Supertramp have never fitted into my definition of progressive rock so I’m treating them as an art rock group.
A combined DVD/CD release called Live In Paris ’79 has the missing six songs from the original concert and is therefore a more sensible purchase.
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