Supertramp - Famous Last Words
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Artist: SupertrampEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Music Label: A&M
Product features:
- USED CD EXC COND
- Crazy
- Put On Your Old Brown Shoes
- It's Raining Again
- Bonnie
- Know Who You Are
- My Kind of Lady
- C'est Le Bon
- Waiting So Long
- Don't Leave Me Now
Free Music Notes for Famous Last Words
Free Music Review: Hodgson's farewell to Supertramp still a classic 25 years on
Hit: 5 Stars
Anglo-American prog rockers Supertramp's seventh studio (and eighth overall) album entitled Famous Last Words was released in October of 1982.
The Famous Last Words album was Supertramp's long awaited studio follow-up to 1979's chart-topping 15 million plus seller Breakfast In America. Also, as fate would turn out, Famous Last Words was also the last album with original co-founder guitarist/singer/keyboard player/songwriter Roger Hodgson who announced he would leave the band in 1983 after the Famous Last Words tour.
Tensions between Roger and co-founder/singer/keyboard player/songwriter Rick Davies during the recording sessions were brutal to say the least. They fought over musical, creative and personal directions during the sessions for the album (also, their wives hated one another so it was almost like the Linda McCartney/Yoko Ono feud).
Famous Last Words was mainly recorded at Roger's house in Nevada City as he didn't want to leave his wife (at the time) and their then 3-year old daughter and infant son behind. Rick recorded most of his vocal parts at his home studio The Backyard Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino.
Famous Last Words also marked the first time which member sang and wrote each track (Roger's lyrics were in yellow and Rick's in white).
Roger Hodgson has five tracks on Famous Last Words starting with the up number "Crazy" which got some extensive airplay on US FM rock radio when released, the beautiful acoustic numbers "C'est Le Bon" and "Know Who You Are", the lyrically sad but musically speaking superb "It's Raining Again" and the haunting closer "Don't Leave Me Now" with one of Hodgson's best guitar solos ever.
The album's biggest hit was the up-tempo breakup song "It's Raining Again" which hit #11 in the US in late 1982/early 1983 and is a great song to lament over the break-up and/or loss of a loved one (this song has more meaning to me now since my mother passed this past March) and featured one of sax player/woodwind expert John Helliwell's best tenor sax solos ever recorded proving he is the greatest sax player in rock history IMHO (I apologize to Clarence Clemons and Lenny Pickett fans but they pale compared to Sir John Helliwell). Its corresponding video depicted a hapless soul losing love and trying to find love (the band members had very small cameo appearances with John as a sax playing busker, bass player Dougie Thomson as a Greyhound bus driver, Roger as a passenger on the bus with the guitar and Davies and drummer Bob Siebenberg as rednecks).
Speaking of Davies' contributions, his were the soulful "Put on Your Old Brown Shoes" (with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart on backing vocals), the Billy Joel-ish sounding ballad "Bonnie" which is a great song with some great piano work from Davies, the 50s-ish sounding number "My Kind of Lady" and the haunting yet atmospheric six and a half minute piece "Waiting So Long" which is Rick's masterpiece on the album.
"My Kind of Lady" was the album's other hit peaking at #31 here in the US and who can forget the video with the lads dressed as a 50s rock group and doo wop group without their beards and long hair which they all got rid of (Helliwell and Davies would grow beards back permanently whilst Siebenberg and Thomson kept the clean-shaven look (although Siebenberg was clean shaven pretty much on every album sleeve) and Hodgson has had beards off and on (grew back in 1983 then shaved off again in 1984 and grew back in late 1990s and shaved off again permanently in 2002) since the video). John Helliwell's sax and occasional keyboards are in fine tow as is Dougie's bass playing and the drumming of Bob Siebenberg's (Famous Last Words was the first time Bob spelled his last name the proper way after spelling it C. Benberg for years).
Famous Last Words peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart and went Platinum although sales should have been bigger but with New Wave and a changing musical landscape heisting the charts it was impossible.
This album sounds better today with the remastering that Greg Calbi and Jay Messina did in 2002.
Highly recommended!
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