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Davies explores his full vocal range in the song, from his normal baritone to the high-pitched falsetto heard earlier on “Poor Boy” and “Goodbye Stranger.” Hodgson is absent from the recording and the doo-wop segments in the video, where the remaining band croon in vintage fashion behind a clean-shaven Davies.

In October, Supertramp played the Drittes Essener Pop & Blues Festival at Grugahalle in Essen, Germany.

Group sessions largely took place at Unicorn Studios, Hodgson’s home facility in Nevada City, Calif. In the UK it was used during the "ITV Telethon". His penchant for classic R&B is further exemplified with “Put On Your Old Brown Shoes.”

Davies also composed “Bonnie,” a sequence of earnest minor-key passages that resolve with a grandiose instrumental finale in heavenly C major.

Farrell departed for Fields, a Rare Bird spinoff that issued the 1971 album Fields on CBS. He played on their intended second album, which remained vaulted for 43 years.

Supertramp self-produced Even in the Quietest Moments… and handled the orchestral arrangements in coordination with Michel Colombier. Seidemann, infamous for the 1969 UK cover to Blind Faith, also captured visuals for 1977 albums by Sparks, Heart, and the Dixie Dregs (Free Fall).

A&M lifted “Give a Little Bit” as a single (b/w “Downstream”).

He also played on Private Parts, the 1972 debut album by Jamaican-born singer–actor Peter Straker.

Supertramp completed its classic five-piece lineup with reedist John Anthony Helliwell, Thomson’s erstwhile Bown colleague. Hodgson had just cut a single as Argosy with a then little-known Elton John.

The new band initially called itself Daddy.

Supertramp rounded out their 1977 activities with seventeen October–November dates throughout England and Scotland. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers gave the award in acknowledgment of the song being one of the 50 most played songs of 2005. Armatrading performed as the opening act with her backing band The Movies, a spinoff of symphonic-rockers Public Foot the Roman.

Crisis?

Siebenberg would later comment that he thought the band hit its artistic peak on this, their third album, though their greatest commercial success would come later. An edit of the opening number, “Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy),” became an FM rock hit with a medium-rotation MTV clip. It sports a boogie shuffle similar to “My Kind of Lady” and a swelling sax break reminiscent of the Stax school.

He also worked on 1979/80 albums by Jean Luc-Ponty (A Taste for Passion), Shandi, and Blondie. When Supertramp reunited in 1997, Thomson declined an invitation to return and eventually quit playing for good. He died at home on Long Island (New York) on 6 September 2025, aged 81.

Rick Davies 
Vocals, keyboards, guitar
Roger Hodgson 
Guitar, keyboards, vocals
Richard Palmer 
Guitar, vocals
Bob Millar 
Drums
Kevin Currie 
Percussion
Frank Farrell 
Bass, vocals
Dave Winthrop
Saxophone, flute, vocals
John Helliwell 
Saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, vocals
Dougie Thomson
Bass
Bob Siebenberg 
Drums
Mark Hart 
Guitar, keyboards, vocals

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