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On This Date…
29 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
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(Reprinted from The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge)
On March 29, 1979, Supertramp released their 6th album “Breakfast in America”. It featured four U.S. Billboard hit singles: “The Logical Song” (No. 6), “Goodbye Stranger” (No. 15), “Take the Long Way Home” (No. 10), and “Breakfast in Ameri…ca” (No. 62).
In the UK, “The Logical Song” and the title track were both top 10 hits, the only two the group had in their native country.
Breakfast in America won two Grammy Awards in 1980, and holds an RIAA certification of quadruple platinum.In France, the album is the biggest-selling English language album of all time, and the third biggest seller overall.
What was your favorite song of this LP?
Happy 35th Birthday to “Breakfast in America”!!
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gilbert O’Sullivan and ‘Alone Again (Naturally)’
22 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
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Of all the British songwriters who have followed in the wake of the Beatles, Gilbert O’Sullivan may possess the greatest gift for McCartney-esque melody and chord structure. His 1972 hit ‘Alone Again (Naturally)’, which spent six weeks at number one on the American pop charts, holds the same melodic melancholy of an ‘Eleanor Rigby’ or ‘For No One’ (though lyrically it’s perhaps a bit more on the maudlin side).
But O’Sullivan’s extensive catalogue contains many other sublime but less familiar tunes which also deserve a listen:
Here in a 2001 interview Gilbert touches on his ongoing love for the craft of songwriting, his appreciation of contemporary pop, his 5-year legal dispute against Gordon Mills (father of ‘Clair’, the inspiration for another of his hit singles) and another court case against Biz Markie:
Every Moment Has A Song 