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Rick Davies, the singer and keyboardist who as a founding member of prog-rock and pop group Supertramp penned some of the band\u2019s most popular and enduring songs, died on Saturday at his home in Long Island. He was 81.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supertramp Partnership is very sad to announce the death of Supertramp founder Rick Davies after a long illness,\u201d the band wrote in a statement. \u201cWe had the privilege of knowing him, and playing with him for over 50 years. We offer our sincere condolences to Sue Davies.\u201d A cause of death was not immediately available, but Davies had been battling multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, for over a decade.<\/p>\n
More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Taking the name from the 1908 book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp <\/em>by Welsh author William Henry Davies, Davies founded the group in 1969 with guitarist Richard Palmer, drummer Robert Millar, and vocalist-bassist Roger Hodgson. They released their prog-heavy eponymous debut album and second album Indelibly Stamped <\/em>in 1969 and 1970, respectively, to little fanfare.<\/p>\n But after retooling the group, Davies and Hodgson found their commercial breakthrough with 1974\u2019s Crime of the Century<\/em> featuring Davies-penned hits \u201cBloody Well Good\u201d and \u201cCrime of the Century,\u201d among others. (The Hodgson-penned \u201cDreamer\u201d would also become one of the band\u2019s biggest hits to date.)<\/p>\n Davies would go on to write some of the band\u2019s most enduring tracks, including \u201cGoodbye Stranger,\u201d \u201cCannonball,\u201d and \u201cMy Kind of Lady.\u201d Breakfast in America<\/em>, the band\u2019s sixth album, went quadruple platinum and won two Grammy Awards alongside an Album of the Year nomination.<\/p>\n Born in Swindon, Wiltshire west of London, Davies originally gravitated towards the drums after finding an old Gene Krupa album. \u201cThat one hit me like a rocket. It was like water in the desert,\u201d Davies told Pop Culture Classics<\/a> in 1997. \u201cOn the radio in England in that era, all you heard was Vera Lynn and corny sort of stuff.\u201d After switching to piano, \u201csuddenly people were responding to me. That instrument just seemed right for me.\u201d<\/p>\n He formed a band, Rick\u2019s Blues, with future pop singer Gilbert O\u2019Sullivan and later, the Lonely Ones, a band formed by future Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding.<\/p>\n This story is developing<\/em><\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rick Davies, the singer and keyboardist who as a founding member of prog-rock and pop group Supertramp penned some of the band\u2019s most popular and enduring songs, died on Saturday at his home in Long Island. He was 81. \u201cThe Supertramp Partnership is very sad to announce the death of Supertramp founder Rick Davies after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2005155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[365533,365537,365535,365536,365534],"class_list":["post-2005154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-rick-davies","tag-roger-hodgson","tag-sue-davies","tag-supertramp","tag-william-henry-davies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rick-Davies-Supertramp-Co-Founder-and-Frontman-Dead-at-81.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}