Breakfast in America

BREAKFAST IN AMERICA – 1979 – A&M

Release Date: 29 March 1979

Recording Date: December 1978 at The Village Recorder/Studio B, Los Angeles, California

Label: A&M        Time: 46:12

Producer Peter Henderson, Supertramp

The most sucesful Supertramp album.

El album más vendido de Supertramp

The album cover design was completed by including a photo of the band on the back. For the location they chose Bert’s Mad House on La Brea Avenue in LA, located literally just across the street from the studios (sadly it’s now gone, rumoured to have been turned into a parking lot). Look carefully and all the musicians are reading a newspaper from their own home towns. John’s Manchester Evening News represents his nearest city to Todmorden.

Studio B only had one recording booth (Studio A was occupied by Steely Dan) and as the backing for tracks such as The Logical song were recorded live, John was dispatched to the toilet to play his solos. Engineer Pete Henderson bemusedly recalled, “He used to complain about it a lot, but I think he was actually quite happy being in there.»

He was allowed out to contribute backing vocals to some of the tracks and is even the “heavy breather” heard exhaling at the start of every bar in the introduction to “The Logical Song”.

To know more about this album, see this INTERVIEW

To know more about the recording, see this deep ARTICLE

Side ONE

«Gone Hollywood» – 5:20
«The Logical Song» – 4:10
«Goodbye Stranger» – 5:50
«Breakfast in America» – 2:38
«Oh Darling» – 3:58

Side TWO
«Take the Long Way Home» – 5:08
«Lord Is It Mine» – 4:09
«Just Another Nervous Wreck» – 4:26
«Casual Conversations» – 2:58
«Child of Vision» – 7:25

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