British rocker Rick Davies (Supertramp), 81, died on Sept. 5 after a long battle with multiple myeloma. Supertramp (formed in 1970 and breaking up sometimes in the early ‘80s) enjoyed such hits (many of them written by Davies) as "Rudy,” “Bloody Well Right,” "Crime of the Century,” "Ain't Nobody but Me,” "From Now On,” "Gone Hollywood,” "Goodbye Stranger,” "Just Another Nervous Wreck,” "My Kind of Lady,” "Cannonball,” "I'm Beggin' You,” and my own favorite, “The Logical Song,” from their 1979 Breakfast in America album. Davies and Roger Hodgson shared vocals (the group was kind of a precursor to the New Wave sound). Davies said that “As a kid, I used to hear the drums marching along the street in England, when there was some kind of parade, and it was the most fantastic sound to me. Then, eventually, I got some drums and I took lessons. I was serious about it... I figured if I could do that – I mean a real drummer, read music and play with big bands, rock bands, classical, Latin, and know what I was going to do – I would be in demand and my life was set. Eventually, I started fiddling with the keyboards, and that seemed to go over better than my drumming, for some reason. So you've gotta go with what people react to."
“The Logical Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kln_bIndDJg&list=RDkln_bIndDJg&start_radio=1
