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I have seen Roger Hodgson 7 times.......many friends think I'm crazy but I never enjoy a better show than Roger when it tours within diving distance of Rochester. I've seen him early on with only Aaron and him, with an orchestra, and with his band. His voice is still incredible and still manages to reach those high octaves which is signature for many of his songs. This particular show my wife and I had front row seats and felt like he was playing in our living room! With so many hits he wrote from his days with Supertramp and several solo albums there was more than enough material for him to choose from........only wish he could have played for another hour to cover some of my favorites!

IF you every have the opportunity to see Roger Hodgson, I strongly encourage you see one of his shows.....you will be taken in both spiritually and emotionally as you sing along with some of the favorites and be amazed at the amount of songs you remember that will bring back many memories.....

Favorite moment: Too many to choose from but he did play In Jeopardy which was my favorite.

Setlist: Take the Long Way Home, School, In Jeopardy, Lovers in the Wind, Breakfast in America, Sister Moonshine, Hide in your Shell, Lord is it Mine, The Logical Song, Death and a Zoo, If Everyone was Listening, Had a Dream, Give a Little Bit.

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Roger Hodgson who is originally from the south coast of England, in a place called Portsmouth, rose to success as the singer of progressive rock giants, Supertramp. He is the brain behind their biggest hits to date.

Tonight he performs a slew of the most successful songs that he has ever written with some of his solo material thrown in for good measure. Either way, he could perform anything to this audience tonight and they would lap it up. To this day he is still singing in his tenor head voice, which was one of the recognizable beacons of his former band, Supertramp. Accompanying himself on piano, and guitar, this musician plays songs such as “In Jeopardy” and “Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)”. He is exceptionally skilled, writing songs that just get stuck in your head. What a lot of people don’t know is that he is quite an export of a musician, with most of his success being in America! He makes various jibes about this throughout this set, sporting a fantastic humour throughout.

For anyone who is or was a fan of Supertramp, you've got to see Roger Hodgson, their voice and co-founder, in concert. I was fortunate to see Supertramp back in their heyday in the 1970s and I can say without a doubt that Roger's show surpasses that by far. There is a reason so many fans (myself included) believe he is the soul and spirit of the band. There is nothing better than seeing the original singer/songwriter performing the songs he wrote - Give a Little Bit, Dreamer, Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Take the Long Way Home, Fool's Overture, School, It's Raining Again, and so many more. I can't wait to see Roger again this year on his Breakfast in America World Tour.

Absolutely AMAZING concert! Roger sounds as good as he did in his Supertramp days! Knew how great the show would be when the first song was Take The Long Way Home. Loved the classics - The Logical Song, Breakfast in America, Its Raining Again, Give A Little Bit and In Your Shell. Just wanted to hear Crime Of The Century, which would have been the icing on the cake! His backing band were incredible- as good as the original Supertramp! Well worth the trip from Liverpool!

I'm a long time fan of Roger Hodgson. I discover Supertramp when I was really young and I've attended more than 100 shows around Europe and North America. This 2016 tour and his performance in Palau de la Música it's one of the best I've seen so far. He has managed to recreate the sound of Supertramp 100% with an extremely talentous band. I really recommend to people to try to be at one of his shows. You will regret it if you miss it!

The show in Dublin, Ireland was a special "DUO SHOW" with just Roger and his percussionist, Aaron. It was absolutely amazing! The audience was mesmerized during Fool's Overture then dancing and singing along to "It's Raining Again" and "Take the Long Way Home"! It was a very special evening and a must see for fans!

ABSOLUTELY A MUST SEE!!! Roger is BETTER then ever,The BAND IS GREAT.They REALLY ROCKED! ROGER is soo HUMBLE also. SOUND CHECK was an AWESOME EXPERIENCE I WILL NEVER FORGET. THANKS for the MEMORIES & A NIGHT FILLED with LOVE &MUSIC .God willing my husband and I will get to see him again!!

Roger and his ensemble were absolutely wonderful

It was an unforgettable evening

If you have a chance to see Roger , don't think about it, just do it!

The Humphreys venue was as good as it gets,

Roger, you are a gift to us from heaven.

I was there at the Greek Theatre. Why don't they come back and tour Losangeles? Huge crowds. Schools Song Wow! Was us! Rodgers Music transcended Rockers from 1975to present with my generation.

Love Roger! Travelled from Cardiff and Saw you in Belgium and at the Albert hall, Now coming to Germany. Would love for you to Play my all time favourite song, Even in the quietest moments.

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Supertramp saxophonist John Helliwell on reunion possibilities, surviving punk, the Paris live album and more

The last time Prog saw John Anthony Helliwell, back in 2010, he was on stage at the O2 Arena, leading the current version of Supertramp through a show packed full of the group’s many, many hits. 

Today we’re having breakfast. Not in America, but at least in an American diner (located, however, in London’s Covent Garden), while being treated to crystal clear HD renditions of a selection of material from Supertramp’s long-awaited Live In Paris ’79 – a belated film companion to the band’s 1980 live album.

“Where you there?” he asks of the O2 gig. “I think it makes for an interesting comparison – to see us play live now, twice as old, and then see something like this. I think it compares very well.”

So too does the jacket Helliwell’s proudly displaying. It’s the very same one he’s wearing in the film, 30-odd years before. We may be three decades-plus down the line, but the trim saxophonist has worn the years very well. As indeed have the celebrated songs we’re hearing and Helliwell’s own still-amusing song introductions – “Being in Paris always makes me feel very logical” – and pun-laden lead intro Breakast In America itself.

What’s it like for you to find yourself watching the you from 1979? “It brings back happy memories. There was a good power there between the five of us in the group at that time. We really seemed to gel well, and I think this film shows it.”

Then – as now, it seems – you were very much the MC or showman of the band, holding everything together and playing up to the audience. “Well, it is a role that was handed to me, simply because the others didn’t want to do it [laughs]. When we did our first major tour with Crime Of The Century , back in 1974, we thought that the music was very serious. What we used to do back then was open with what was side one of Crime… , do some other numbers, and then end with the second side of Crime… . We felt we should talk to the audience, but no one else wanted to do it, so it fell to me. Slight comic relief maybe, not too serious, and we just carried on like that.”

The Paris show captured in the film was on the back of the enormous success of Breakfast In America , when the band were arguably at their commercial peak. What do you remember about that time? “ Breakfast In America had just come out, and was an enormous success. That was a really long tour as well. We started in March and actually finished about four gigs after Paris in December.”

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Was it strange to find yourselves in the position you were in at the time, playing the biggest shows of your career and yet, with the advent of punk, effectively being written off as ‘past it’ – despite only being in your 30s? “Well, here in the UK we were, but not anywhere else. You’ve just got to accept it. In general, the British music press were very supportive when we were in the ascendancy, from 1974 onwards. But when we moved to California, it changed. Maybe they never forgave us for moving to the States. And then our popularity increased, and maybe it’s the old thing of knocking them off their perch. Now we find it difficult to play in the States, but in Europe we’re still really big. We’ve had a smaller, loyal following here in the UK, and we still play here.”

The 2010 O2 show was impressively packed. “Yes, but it was the only UK show we played. I don’t know why, I’m just the saxophone player, I’m not privy to the management decisions, etc… But that was quite heartening, that crowd. Although we do know we’re not right up there any more.”

I suppose it goes with the territory though – the longer a career goes on, the work rate slows down a bit, and touring becomes more laborious… " I actually have to say that I really enjoy touring. But as I said, it’s up to Rick [Davies] when we tour, because he’s in charge. Back in the 70s it was a nice democratic organisation. But it’s not any more. It’s an oligarchy [laughs].”

What was life like on the road back then? “We semi-shunned publicity. We didn’t blow into town in limousines and things. There’d be occasions when we’d fly in to town, and we’d place the road crew in the limos and we’d go in hire cars. At other times after soundcheck, we could wander out into the crowd and they wouldn’t know who we were, especially in North America. That was nice really, because we were in it for the music, not the personalities.”

What exactly is the state of play with Supertramp now? “It’s Rick’s band, because he owns the name and he’s the one writer left since Roger departed. We still make albums, although they’re not as popular as Breakfast In America – but they do okay, and we’re pleased with what we’ve done. And we still sound good on stage. So we work when Rick wants to. We might be doing some gigs in 2013, and of course Europe is our biggest place to play.”

The one question we’d get lynched by ’Tramp fans if we didn’t ask, although I’m sure you’ve heard it too many times: any chance of a reunion with Roger? “That question keeps rearing its head. Rick and Roger met up and tried to get something together, prior to us touring in 2010. But negotiations failed, so Roger wasn’t around on that. My opinion on it all is: it’s possible, but doubtful, that they would get together on a tour like that. But it would be nice to have a reunion of just the five of us; that would be very nice. I’m up for it. All the time, I’ve been up for it. But it’s not just them, it’s managements and other things as well.”

This feature originally appeared in Prog 31.

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.

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Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson Starts First U.S. Band Tour in 30 Years

By Steve Baltin

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By 1979, Supertramp was one of the biggest rock bands in the world, with Breakfast In America spending 15 weeks at Number One on the U.S. album charts. Four years later, Roger Hodgson left the band he helped make famous. Now, after 29 years, a smiling Hodgson is kicking off his first U.S. band tour since ’83 at Pechanga Casino & Resort in Temecula, California.

Yes, it’s a world away from the stardom he would totally turn his back on when he left music in ’87 to concentrate on being a parent. But to the adoring fans who rise to their feet as Hodgson and his four-piece backing band take the stage just after 8:00 with the FM radio staple “Take The Long Way Home,” it might as well be 1979 all over again.

“You the man, Roger,” one very boisterous fan yells out throughout the whole two-hour show as Hodgson mixes Supertramp classics like “Dreamer,” “It’s Raining Again,” “School,” “Give A Little Bit” and the title cut to Breakfast In America with less familiar tracks such as “Hide In The Shell,” “Lovers In The Wind,” “Child Of Vision,” “Along Came Mary” and the closing “Fool’s Overture.”

It’s a career-spanning set, one that – most importantly – Hodgson clearly thoroughly enjoys and can do on his terms. That, to him, is the most important thing, he tells us. And in a wide-ranging backstage interview after the show, Hodgson also spoke with Rolling Stone about the possibility of new studio material, how the Beatles changed his life, his decision to leave Supertramp in 1983 and why, after Supertramp’s Rick Davies rebuffed Hodgson’s last attempt to join the band for a few shows, the time for a reunion has passed.  

It’s mind boggling this is your first U.S. band tour in 30 years.

Yeah, the last eight years I’ve been everywhere else but America really, except for Pechanga. I did a solo show here three years ago, came back and did two band shows last year and then two again this year. But the whole thing for me has been connecting the dots. Everyone pretty much knows my voice, they know my songs, but they don’t know my name. And I didn’t think about that when I left Supertramp. Supertramp was a kind of faceless band. Supertramp was my baby in a way and I was quite happy to be invisible in it because I put 14 years of my life in there and that’s what I believed in, never thought I’d leave it. It was a surprise for me in a way when suddenly my heart was telling me that it’s over and I need to stop and take care of my family and learn how to be a father.

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It’s interesting you say that because I only recently noticed the lyrics to “Take The Long Way Home” and it does seem like in the song there is a disconnect between being on stage and the family life.

Unlike most of my songs, that one wasn’t autobiographical. [Laughs.] That one was kind of a two-level song. And when I said it’s hard going home to the wife because she treats you like part of the furniture, that wasn’t my reality then anyway. I actually wrote it just as I was getting together with my future wife, so family hadn’t really hit me then – it came later, it became truer. But it was kind of a play on words that suddenly took on a depth, too, about reaching later in life and having regrets that you didn’t do what you wanted to do.

I had a chance to interview Jackson Browne, who also started writing in his teens and one thing he said that always struck me was how many of his songs turned out to be prophetic. Did you find that to be the case for you as well?

I think without knowing it, I had a degree of wisdom anyway in my late teens. There was a lot of confusion too, but I “Give A Little Bit” came from that era. It was the Sixties, so love and peace were definitely what was in the public consciousness, if you like. So that was maybe my contribution to that, but I also believed that and I still believe that and the song really has stood the test of time. It’s basically saying you don’t need to give a lot, give a little bit and show that you care. And if there’s ever a time we need to do that, it’s now. But there are other songs, like “The Logical Song.” I had a lot of questions going on. I don’t know if I can say it was wisdom, it was more the songs were true to who I was back then and I think that was why they kind of stand up. Maybe I’ve learned a bit more now and I’m a bit older and wiser, but the songs still feel very relevant, most of them. And that’s pretty amazing, considering how young I was at the time.

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When you introduced “The Logical Song” tonight, you mentioned it had struck a chord with people. When you think of the music scene in 1979, which was when disco dominated, a song that asked, “Won’t you please just tell me who I am” had no business being on the radio.

It’s a good song. I/we never really paid attention to what was happening in the world of music. I know different fashions came and went, but we just did our own thing and the critics and media didn’t really know what to do with us, some liked us, most kind of discarded us because we weren’t what was in vogue. But yeah, there was a huge disco thing happening when Breakfast In America came out and yet somehow we broke through it and found a place on radio. And the great thing is these songs are still played today, which is pretty amazing.

Leaving Supertramp was obviously the right decision for you at the time, you see that now from how at ease you are. But would you have done anything different in terms of building the name recognition for Roger Hodgson?

Back then I was Roger Hodgson with a lot of insecurities and unsure of myself, but I did have a passion for music, so it worked for me having a name, Supertramp, other than my name to just plow every ounce of my energy, passion and excitement into. I grew up on the Beatles and the Beatles profoundly changed my life, so, for me, they were the role models. I wanted Supertramp to affect other people like the Beatles affected me. I couldn’t get behind Roger Hodgson being that name, I didn’t have the kind of ego that wanted to be a solo artist back then. So I put all my passion into [Supertramp] and it was only really when I realized it was over and my heart was telling me I had to do something else and it was time to take a break from the music industry and learn how to be a parent that it dawned on me suddenly, I didn’t have a name to continue a career. I was giving that name to Rick Davies. It was probably the most foolish business move I’ve ever done (laughs), but business was never my forte. My blessing and curse was I was an artist first, I just had to follow my heart. So with Supertramp, two things were happening. It was very hard for me to function, even as an artist, towards the end, it was falling apart. It was frustrating because I wanted to continue putting out excellent music for people and I didn’t feel like I could do it anymore through Supertramp. So that was happening at the same time two little babies were looking at me and I was saying, “Oh my god, I’ve got to stop and learn how to be a parent.” That was what my heart was telling me and I don’t have any regrets today because I learned a lot from that, I stepped back from the music industry, I got a lot of things in perspective in my personal life and I’m coming back now a lot older, a lot wiser, and I feel with a lot more to give. And ironically with a lot of the same songs that haven’t aged. It’s funny, I sing these songs on stage, this is the first time I’ve sung them really for three months, and it’s like, “Wow, these songs are great.”

When did you discover that you were secure enough to step out from the faceless band and be Roger Hodgson, artist?

It took a long while. Really I’m Roger Hodgson now not because I have a huge desire to have a huge career and be a huge name. I like being just under the radar, famous enough to do shows like this, have an intimate connection with an audience, play my songs and connect with people in a real kind of pure way. I don’t want to do dive into the whole star machine. When you come and see the show, it’s a man and his music.

Will we hear new studio music at any point?

Yeah, I would like to because I’ve got some really good songs burning a hole in my pocket for many years. I’ve always got a huge backlog, so I’ve got songs from even 19, 20 years onwards and I’m still writing today. I can’t say when that’ll happen. Right now I’m feeling like the connection I’m making in concert is more important, so that’s kind of taking the priority.

You’ve been steadfast for many years about not doing a reunion with Supertramp. One of the reasons I’m a solo artist really is because I can control what happens between me and the audience. To me, it’s a very magical, chemical, energetic connection that happens on stage every night I can control. And I can’t control that in a band situation; it becomes something else. And I think Supertramp, for me, was a very good combination of musicians in the golden years. And Rick and I, that was a very interesting yin and yang polarity that really made for an interesting dynamic and often does. But that was at least 30 years ago now. Rick and I did talk, but it’s hard to reinvent what people want to see, it wouldn’t be real. It would be more imaginary, but I’m aware that there’s a real desire for a lot of fans around the world to want to see it happen. The last thing that happened was I did put out an offer when Rick went out as Supertramp to maybe join him for a few shows. And there was a negative answer, I got rebuffed, so I think that was the last opportunity really. And to tell you the truth, I’m more interested in just being true to myself and giving people something I can stand behind and be sincere about. I’d have to compromise that if it was a whole Supertramp hoopla thing. As magic as that might be, I can understand why other bands don’t do that.

As a fan, I admire the conviction because I’ve seen awful shows of bands who didn’t want to be on stage together and it was clear. Are there other artists who’ve been examples of how to hold that ground in the face of demand and money?

Anyone to me who is a true artist, you can tell. Peter Gabriel, to me, is an artist and there are others, there are a lot of great artists. It’s hard not to compromise. Sometimes you piss away a career if you don’t compromise, but at least you can sleep good at night as an artist. And, to me, with the music industry going more and more into star making and fashion, it’s been trivialized. I grew up on the Beatles and there was a lot of depth to them, they were the most progressive band ever. They broke the doors down and it feels like there aren’t that many artists doing that now. I’m certainly not breaking the doors down, but I’m trying to give something that’s real and genuine. This is my music and if I can make you feel wonderful for two hours and go home with a smile on your face, then come and see the show.

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Roger Hodgson, Feb. 15, 2020, Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, Conn. (Photo: © Greg Brodsky)

It’s been more than 40 years since Supertramp’s breakout album, Breakfast in America , was released in 1979. The British band had already achieved success with their mid-’70s output Crime of the Century , Crisis? What Crisis? and Even in the Quietest Moments , each of which had earned solid sales worldwide and their first pop radio success with “Dreamer,” “Bloody Well Right” and “Give a Little Bit.”

But few would have anticipated what happened next when Breakfast was served. Three huge singles led to a #1 album in most territories, and now the composer and the singer of those songs, Roger Hodgson , is on an extended tour four decades later.

On a cold, mid-February night, Hodgson presented his Breakfast in America world tour with his four-piece band, before an appreciative audience at the Ridgefield Playhouse in this charming Connecticut town 60 miles north of New York City. Songs from the 1979 album dominated the evening’s 15-song setlist.

Roger Hodgson joking with the Ridgefield Playhouse audience (with multi-instrumentalist Michael Ghegan in the background) (Photo: © Greg Brodsky)

Hodgson, dressed impeccably in a white suit, opened with “Take the Long Way Home,” one of the album’s big hits. After the applause, he greeted the audience and had the house lights turned on so he could see the crowd. As he spotted two late arrivals still headed for their seats, he deadpanned, “You just missed the best song,” to which one of them replied, “We took the wrong way here.” The audience roared.

Two songs later, Hodgson introduced the title track from Breakfast in America . Referring to the lyrics that begin Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got, Not much of a girlfriend… , he explained that he wrote it when he was just 19 years old. (Hodgson composed many of the songs that would later became Supertramp hits when he was still in his teens.) “What was I thinking,” he asked the audience rhetorically. “I’m so glad I learned to write better love songs.”

Watch Hodgson and his band perform the song on the tour’s opening night, a few evenings’ earlier

[Best Classic Bands asked him after the show about the song that was written in 1969 but not recorded until nearly a decade later. “I never felt it fit with the rest of the songs on Crime , Crisis or Quietest Moments ,” he explained. “But with Breakfast in America , which was a collection of very different, upbeat songs, I felt it did.”]

During the performance, Hodgson  – born on March 21, 1950 – transitioned seamlessly from keyboards to guitar to piano. For “The Logical Song,” Supertramp’s biggest single, he was back on his Roland and when he got to the “who I am” part, he was still able to hit the lyric’s high notes. Multi-instrumentalist Michael Ghegan, a standout throughout the evening, played the song’s distinctive sax parts and whistles.

Watch them perform it at that same Feb. 13 concert

For “Had a Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy)” from his 1984 solo LP, In the Eye of the Storm , Hodgson, on guitar, urged the suburban audience to stand, and they reacted enthusiastically to the crowd pleaser. On “Child of Vision,” he sparkled on piano on the song’s lengthy instrumental passage.

Watch Hodgson’s official live clip of the song, from 2013

“I’ve lived my dream,” said Hodgson at one point.

The evening closed with “Give a Little Bit,” with the audience singing along.

The world tour was expected to continue throughout the rest of 2020 but was suspended due to the pandemic. When he resumes touring, tickets will be available here and here .

Watch Hodgson’s official live version of “Take the Long Way Home,” from 2016

Related: Our Album Rewind of  Breakfast in America

Hodgson’s and Supertramp’s recordings are available in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here .

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Thanks Greg for eloquently expressing what we all experienced and felt in our hearts with Roger and band in Ridgefield! Following Roger’s FB for the new US dates and ready to do it all again – an unforgettable concert that had us rocking and dancing, astonished and rapt with deep emotion all night and long after. Loved the joyful humour and good laughs, every ‘little bit’ something special. Counting the days to the next one!

I can’t wait to see Roger again in just a few days. I’ve been waiting weeks and the show is finally almost here. There are not many artists I greatly look forward to seeing, but Roger’s show is not just seeing him perform his songs that I love; it’s also as if I’m coming to see an old friend again and it appears that many in the audience think as I do, with the comments I hear. There is nothing better than seeing the original singer/songwriter performing his own songs. For anyone who was or is a fan of Supertramp, you’ve got to see Roger live in concert. He IS Supertramp.

Great review. It shows so clearly why Roger Hodgson is one of the best performers nowadays. I haven’t seen ever such communication between an Artist and his audience, as Roger does, all the feelings you can experience: It’s a thrill, a blast, chills and goosebumps, all at the same time… He achieves a unique and unforgettable magic atmosphere. When you have such wonderful songs in the repertoire you don’t need anything else, just open your heart and let yourself go. Good songs don’t need much decoration, when you have good songs all you have to do is play them and empty yourself, leave the heart in each one. What is the recipe for a good song?, I think Roger has it, and it is: Good lyrics, good music, good performance and something else that nobody knows what it is and that is what really matters, that’s the key, that’s what Roger does, and that’s why his shows are so special, because , when you attend to one of his concerts, you feel you have to see him once and another, no matter how far you have to travel. It’s worth!!!

I was there! I see Roger every year he tours in the US and just keeps getting better, it’s something special…..the extended jams were really awesome.

The best ! Not more needed to say.

I was there and what a great show it was !! Roger’s interactions with the crowd between songs only added to the intimate atmosphere of the Ridgefield. I was fortunate to connect with Roger after the show as part of my meet & greet ticket. It was such an honor and he was so genuine and generous with his time. What a great guy !! Looking forward to future shows.

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Roger Hodgson, known for all of the classic Supertramp mega-hits that he wrote, composed and sang, embarks on a new world tour that kicked off  June 12  in  Austria  and ends on  November 18  in  Vancouver . With venues selling out quickly, it is amazing how his timeless songs and Roger’s mesmerizing performances continue to connect in powerful ways to  bring fans everywhere back for more year after year.

The enduring appeal of Hodgson’s compositions – songs like “ Give a Little Bit ,” “ The Logical Song ,” “ Dreamer ,” “ Take the Long Way Home ,” “ Breakfast in America ,”  “It’s Raining Again ,” “ School ,” “ Hide in Your Shell ,” “ Fool’s Overture ,” “ Had a Dream ” and “ In Jeopardy ,” continues to thrill and be celebrated by multi-generations, creating yet another sold out tour.

Roger Hodgson  co-founded the legendary group almost five decades ago. Album sales now exceed 60 million. Their hugely successful album  Breakfast in America  will celebrate its 40 th  anniversary next year. Touring consistently to packed and appreciative  audiences worldwide, Hodgson continues to be honored by critics and fans alike for his music and performances as well as his philanthropy.

Roger on tour:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLNeSbtVN0

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ROGER HODGSON 2018 Tour Dates :

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CANADA  and  USA Jul 13  Sugar House Casino,  Philadelphia, PA , USA  SOLD OUT!   VIP* Jul 14  Spyglass Ridge Winery,  Sunbury, PA, USA  TICKETS   VIP* Jul 15  American Music Theatre,  Lancaster, PA , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Jul 17   Maryland Hall  for the Creative Arts,  Annapolis, MD , USA  SOLD OUT!   VIP* Jul 18  Bergen Performing Arts Center,  Englewood, NJ , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Jul 20  Les Grandes Fetes TELUS in  Parc Beausejour ,  Rimouski , Canada   TICKETS Jul 21  La Fete du Lac des Nations Festival,  Sherbrooke , Canada  TICKETS Jul 24  Humphreys Concerts by the Bay,  San Diego, CA , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Jul 25  The Pacific Amphitheatre,  Costa Mesa, CA , USA  TICKETS Jul 27  Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino,  Coarsegold, CA , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Jul 28  Snoqualmie Casino,  Snoqualmie, WA , USA  TICKETS   VIP*

CANADA  and  USA Oct 26  Grand Theatre, Québec, Canada  SOLD OUT!   VIP* Oct 27  TD Place,  Ottawa , Canada  TICKETS   VIP* Oct 29  Theatre St-Denis, Montréal, Canada  TICKETS   VIP* Oct 30  Place des Arts, Montréal, Canada  SOLD OUT!   VIP* Oct 31  Theatre St-Denis, Montréal, Canada  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 2  Casino Rama Resort & Casino,  Rama , Canada  TICKETS  (on sale  June 16 ) Nov 3  Casino Rama Resort & Casino,  Rama , Canada  TICKETS  (on sale  June 16 ) Nov 6  Potawatomi Hotel & Casino,  Milwaukee, WI , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 7  Potawatomi Hotel & Casino,  Milwaukee, WI , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 8  Potawatomi Hotel & Casino,  Milwaukee, WI , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 9  Potawatomi Hotel & Casino,  Milwaukee, WI , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 12  River City Casino & Hotel,  St. Louis, MO , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 13  River City Casino & Hotel,  St. Louis, MO , USA  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 15  Grey Eagle Resort & Casino,  Calgary , Canada  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 16  River Cree Resort & Casino, Enoch, Canada  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 17  River Rock Casino Resort,  Vancouver , Canada  TICKETS   VIP* Nov 18  Hard Rock Casino,  Vancouver, Canada   TICKETS   VIP*

There are few vocalists instantly recognizable from the first few bars of a song but  Roger Hodgson  is certainly one of that unique group. The singer/songwriter of Supertramp, his voice is as unmistakable as the distinct keyboard sound of his early hits. The Times-  London , Review from The Royal Albert Hall Concert

Overjoyed grins and rhythmic claps, accurate whistling and enthusiastic screams of jubilation accompanied with the voice that brings goosebumps through his work. At the end, the completely enthused listeners didn’t want to let the world star go. Aachen Nachrichten, Bernd Büttgens

Beautiful. That’s the word that just keeps popping into your head when watching  Roger Hodgson  perform. Whether it’s the melodic complexity of his songs, the harmonies he weaves with his band, the lyrics that sweep you away or his ability to still command the incredible upper range of his voice, beautiful was what kept coming to mind over and over again during his performance. ‘Breathtaking’ might also apply. ‘I want more’ certainly would . Mesa Classic Rock Music Examiner, Ten Hansen

From his fingers came the magic melodies that flowed from the heart, and as I believe: touched hearts. There was a special bond between the artist and the audience. There was something genuinely mystical about it. Something that only happens when dealing with real art. Beautiful show. Blog Nawiedzonego, Andrzej Gwoździk

LOS ANGELES ,  June 14, 2018  /PRNewswire/ —  Roger Hodgson

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