{"id":141166,"date":"2025-09-08T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:27:06","slug":"supertramps-rick-davies-who-sang-bloody-well-right-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141166\/","title":{"rendered":"Supertramp’s Rick Davies, Who Sang ‘Bloody Well Right,’ Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRick Davies<\/a>, one of the two co-founders, frontmen and chief songwriters of the British band Supertramp<\/a>, which evolved from a progressive-rock group into an unexpected chart-topping ensemble with the album \u201cBreakfast in America,\u201d has died after a long battle with cancer, the band confirmed in a statement. He was 81<\/p>\n

\n\tDavies, who wrote and sang such Supertramp hits as \u201cGoodbye Stranger\u201d and \u201cBloody Well Right,\u201d had a deeper and less-distinctive voice than his erstwhile partner, Roger Hodgson, who wrote and sang the band\u2019s biggest hit, \u201cThe Logical Song.\u201d Yet it was he who continued the band after Hodgson split in 1983 over a variety of disputes, which began with creative differences but grew to include songwriting royalties<\/a> and other matters, that carried on in court as recently as last month. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Supertramp Partnership is very sad to announce the death of the Supertramp founder, Rick Davies after a long illness,\u201d the statement reads.\u00a0\u201cRick passed away at his home on Long Island on September 5th. We had the privilege of knowing him, and playing with him for over fifty years. We offer our sincere condolences to Sue Davies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDavies was born in Swindon, England in 1944 and became obsessed with music at an early age, first as a drummer and later as a keyboardist. One of his early bands, Rick\u2019s Blues, featured future \u201cAlone Again, Naturally\u201d singer Gilbert O\u2019Sullivan on drums, who later acknowledged Davies as a key mentor. After performing with a series of bands, in 1969 he decided to form a new one, and Hodgson was one of the musicians who replied to his ad. Despite dramatic differences in their voices and backgrounds, they gelled musically and, after a brief period of being called Daddy, renamed themselves Supertramp in January of 1970.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe band signed with A&M and grew in popularity with each album, making its first breakthrough with the \u201cCrime of the Century\u201d album, powered by the Davies-penned single \u201cBloody Well Right.\u201d Their success and profile grew with each successive album \u2014\u00a0including 1977\u2019s \u201cIn the Quietest Moments,\u201d which featured Hodgson\u2019s hit \u201cGive a Little Bit\u201d \u2014 until they broke wide open with \u201cBreakfast in America\u201d album, released in the spring of 1979.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Logical Song\u201d may have been written and sung by Hodgson, but it was driven by Davies\u2019 prominent electric piano; he also wrote the answering refrain on the song\u2019s last chorus. His song \u201cGoodbye Stranger\u201d was the album\u2019s second hit single, and Supertramp were suddenly a globally popular band.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, they did not sustain that success, and Hodgson left after falling out with the bandmembers in 1983, following the band\u2019s seventh album, \u201c\u2026 Famous Last Words\u2026\u201d Davies continued the band for four more albums, the final being 2002\u2019s \u201cSlow Motion,\u201d and continued to perform as recently as 2022, although often under the name Ricky and the Rockets. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Davies, one of the two co-founders, frontmen and chief songwriters of the British band Supertramp, which evolved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,87882,87883],"class_list":{"0":"post-141166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-rick-davies","10":"tag-supertramp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}