LONDON (AP) — Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of British band Supertramp, has died after a protracted battle with most cancers, the band mentioned Monday. He was 81.
Davies, who co-wrote the band’s music with Roger Hodgson, was “the voice and pianist behind Supertramp’s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,” the band mentioned in a press release on its web site.
He died Saturday after battling a number of myeloma, a kind of blood most cancers, for greater than a decade, the band mentioned.
Davies and Hodgson fashioned Supertramp in 1969, and produced hits together with “Goodbye Stranger,” “The the Long Way Home,” “The Logical Song,” and “Give a Little Bit.”
The band’s 1979 album “Breakfast in America” topped charts in america and Canada, gained two Grammys and offered over 18 million copies.
Davies’ “soulful vocals and unmistakable touch on the Wurlitzer became the heartbeat of the bands’ sound,” the assertion mentioned.
Born in Swindon, England in 1944, Davies had a ardour for jazz, blues and rock and roll from a younger age, the band mentioned.
Hodgson left the band in 1983 and launched solo albums. Supertramp disbanded in 1988, although Davies revived it in 1996. The group carried out for the final time in Madrid in 2012.
