To promote the album, the band played at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, held a few weeks after release.Īs the songs for Supertramp's third album, Crime of the Century (1974), were introduced into the band's live set, the songs from Supertramp were all dropped, never to return. Hodgson later recalled "Invariably our engineer, Robin Black, would fall asleep on us in the middle of the sessions, which were pretty intense as it was, because we fought a lot with Richard Palmer." He was fond of the resulting album, however, and commented over a decade later that "It was very naïve, but it has a good mood to it." The album was recorded entirely in night sessions running from 12 am to 6 am, due to a superstition on the part of the band members (fuelled by their having heard that Traffic and Spooky Tooth recorded at late hours) that there was some "magic" to recording at night. The music to the songs was all composed jointly by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson. Palmer himself later said that he considered writing lyrics "like having to do school work" at the time. ![]() ![]() All the album's lyrics were written by Richard Palmer, since none of the other members of Supertramp were willing to write any.
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