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'''''...Famous Last Words...''''' (stylised in all lowercase) is the seventh studio [[album]] by English [[rock music|rock]] band [[Supertramp]], released in October 1982. It was the studio follow-up to 1979's ''[[Breakfast in America]]'' and the last album with vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist [[Roger Hodgson]], who left the group to pursue a solo career. Thus, it was the final album to be released by the classic lineup of the band (Hodgson, Davies, Helliwell, Thomson, and Siebenberg).
'''''...Famous Last Words...''''' (stylised in all lowercase), released in October 1982, is the seventh studio [[album]] by the British [[rock music|rock]] band [[Supertramp]]. It was the studio follow-up to 1979's ''[[Breakfast in America]]'' and the last album with vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist [[Roger Hodgson]], who left the group to pursue a solo career. Thus, it was the final album to be released by the classic lineup of the band (Hodgson, Davies, Helliwell, Thomson, and Siebenberg).


The album reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Albums Charts in its third week on the chart dated November 27, 1982,<ref name="Billboard">{{cite web|title=allmusic ((( ''...Famous Last Words...'' > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))|website=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r19403/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref> and was certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000 copies there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=supertramp#search_section|title=RIAA Gold and Platinum|last=|first=|date=|website=RIAA.com|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref> It also peaked at number{{nbsp}}6 in the UK where it was certified Gold for 100,000 copies sold.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tsort.info/music/ay1982.htm|title=Albums from the Year 1982|last=Tsort|website=tsort.info|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>
The album reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Albums Charts in its third week on the chart dated November 27, 1982,<ref name="Billboard">{{cite web|title=allmusic ((( ''...Famous Last Words...'' > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))|website=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r19403/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref> and was certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000 copies there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=supertramp#search_section|title=RIAA Gold and Platinum|last=|first=|date=|website=RIAA.com|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref> It also peaked at number{{nbsp}}6 in the UK where it was certified Gold for 100,000 copies sold.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tsort.info/music/ay1982.htm|title=Albums from the Year 1982|last=Tsort|website=tsort.info|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>
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The album's working title was ''Tightrope.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pfenninger |first=Leslie J. |title=Supertramp {{!}} On A&M Records |url=https://www.onamrecords.com/artists/supertramp |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=www.onamrecords.com |language=en}}</ref> The album was mainly recorded and mixed at Hodgson's home, Unicorn Studios in [[Nevada City, California|Nevada City]], California, as he did not want to leave his wife, his then two-year-old daughter Heidi, and newborn son Andrew behind. Davies wound up recording his vocal and keyboard parts at his home studio, The Backyard Studios, in [[Encino, Los Angeles|Encino]], California. Other overdubs were at Bill Schnee Recording Studios in Los Angeles.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}
The album's working title was ''Tightrope.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pfenninger |first=Leslie J. |title=Supertramp {{!}} On A&M Records |url=https://www.onamrecords.com/artists/supertramp |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=www.onamrecords.com |language=en}}</ref> The album was mainly recorded and mixed at Hodgson's home, Unicorn Studios in [[Nevada City, California|Nevada City]], California, as he did not want to leave his wife, his then two-year-old daughter Heidi, and newborn son Andrew behind. Davies wound up recording his vocal and keyboard parts at his home studio, The Backyard Studios, in [[Encino, Los Angeles|Encino]], California. Other overdubs were at Bill Schnee Recording Studios in Los Angeles.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}


At the time of the album's release, many interpreted the title (which at that point became ''...Famous Last Words...'') and cover art as thinly-veiled hints that Supertramp was breaking up.<ref name="Melhuish" /> In a 2015 interview, Hodgson confirmed that he and Davies decided on the title because "we weren't doing [a record] again".<ref>{{Citation|last=ROCK ANTENNE|title=Roger Hodgson: Will Supertramp reunite? - Wird es eine Supertramp Reunion geben?|date=2015-07-16|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdd6FGJulAw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/Tdd6FGJulAw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=2018-03-04}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He said that he regrets recording the album, calling it "a last-ditch attempt to try and make things happen" after the life had gone out of the band.<ref>(2009). [http://www.inthestudio.net/ 30th Anniversary Breakfast in America Feature], ''[[In the Studio (radio show)|In the Studio]]''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208014251/http://www.inthestudio.net/ |date=8 February 2014 }}</ref> Conversely, [[John Helliwell]] said in 1986: "We wanted a phrase that bore some relationship with what we were doing but was enigmatic at the same time. We always like to have enigmatic titles like ''[[Crime of the Century (album)|Crime of the Century]]''{{nbsp}}... This last LP we thought was going to be real quick. We thought we were going to rehearse it and record it real quick and it ended up taking longer than any other so we had to eat our words again. For the past three or four LPs we've been saying, 'Let's be well prepared.' So the title sprung out of that as well. I can't remember who first thought of it. The graphic design came directly from the title."<ref name="Melhuish" />
At the time of the album's release, many interpreted the title (which at that point became ''...Famous Last Words...'') and cover art as thinly veiled hints that Supertramp was breaking up.<ref name="Melhuish" /> In a 2015 interview, Hodgson confirmed that he and Davies decided on the title because "we weren't doing [a record] again".<ref>{{Citation|last=ROCK ANTENNE|title=Roger Hodgson: Will Supertramp reunite? - Wird es eine Supertramp Reunion geben?|date=2015-07-16|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdd6FGJulAw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/Tdd6FGJulAw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=2018-03-04}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He said that he regrets recording the album, calling it "a last-ditch attempt to try and make things happen" after the life had gone out of the band.<ref>(2009). [http://www.inthestudio.net/ 30th Anniversary Breakfast in America Feature], ''[[In the Studio (radio show)|In the Studio]]''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208014251/http://www.inthestudio.net/ |date=8 February 2014 }}</ref> Conversely, [[John Helliwell]] said in 1986: "We wanted a phrase that bore some relationship with what we were doing but was enigmatic at the same time. We always like to have enigmatic titles like ''[[Crime of the Century (album)|Crime of the Century]]''{{nbsp}}... This last LP we thought was going to be real quick. We thought we were going to rehearse it and record it real quick and it ended up taking longer than any other so we had to eat our words again. For the past three or four LPs we've been saying, 'Let's be well prepared.' So the title sprung out of that as well. I can't remember who first thought of it. The graphic design came directly from the title."<ref name="Melhuish" />


== Reception ==
== Reception ==
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== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
All songs credited to [[Rick Davies]] and [[Roger Hodgson]]. Listed below are the respective writers, also lead singers of their songs.
;Side one
{{tracklist
{{tracklist
| title1         = Crazy
| headline      = Side one
| writer1         = [[Roger Hodgson]]
| all_writing  = [[Rick Davies]] and [[Roger Hodgson]]. Listed below are the respective writers, also lead singers of their songs
| length1         = 4:44
| title1       = Crazy
| title2         = Put On Your Old Brown Shoes
| writer1       = [[Roger Hodgson]]
| writer2         = [[Rick Davies]]
| length1       = 4:44
| length2         = 4:22
| title2       = Put On Your Old Brown Shoes
| title3         = [[It's Raining Again]]
| writer2       = [[Rick Davies]]
| writer3         = Hodgson
| length2       = 4:22
| length3         = 4:24
| title3       = [[It's Raining Again]]
| title4         = Bonnie
| writer3       = Hodgson
| writer4         = Davies
| length3       = 4:24
| length4         = 5:37
| title4       = Bonnie
| title5         = Know Who You Are
| writer4       = Davies
| writer5         = Hodgson
| length4       = 5:37
| length5         = 5:00
| title5       = Know Who You Are
| writer5       = Hodgson
| length5       = 5:00
}}
}}
;Side two
{{tracklist
{{tracklist
| extra_column   = Lead vocals
| headline      = Side two
| title6         = [[My Kind of Lady]]
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| writer6         = Davies
| title6       = [[My Kind of Lady]]
| length6         = 5:15
| writer6       = Davies
| title7         = C'est le bon
| length6       = 5:15
| writer7         = Hodgson
| title7       = C'est le bon
| length7         = 5:32
| writer7       = Hodgson
| title8         = Waiting So Long
| length7       = 5:32
| writer8         = Davies
| title8       = Waiting So Long
| length8         = 6:35
| writer8       = Davies
| title9         = Don't Leave Me Now
| length8       = 6:35
| writer9         = Hodgson
| title9       = Don't Leave Me Now
| length9         = 6:24
| writer9       = Hodgson
| length9       = 6:24
}}
}}


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=== Production ===
=== Production ===
* [[Record producer|Producers]]: Peter Henderson, Russel Pope, Supertramp
* [[Record producer|Producers]]: [[Peter Henderson (music producer)|Peter Henderson]], Russel Pope, Supertramp
* [[Audio engineer|Engineer]]: Peter Henderson
* [[Audio engineer|Engineer]]: Peter Henderson
* Assistant engineer: Norman Hall
* Assistant engineer: Norman Hall
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=== Weekly charts ===
=== Weekly charts ===
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!Chart (1982–83)
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!scope="row"|Italian Albums (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e dischi]]|language=it|access-date=January 5, 2025}} Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Titolo" field, search "Supertramp".</ref>
!scope="row"|Italian Albums (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e dischi]]|language=it|access-date=January 5, 2025}} Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Titolo" field, search "Supertramp".</ref>
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{{album chart|Billboard200|5|artist=Supertramp|rowheader=true|access-date=January 5, 2024}}
{{album chart|Billboard200|5|artist=Supertramp|rowheader=true|access-date=January 5, 2024}}
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! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Greek Albums ([[IFPI Greece|IFPI]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifpi.gr/charts_en.html|title=Official IFPI Charts Top-75 Albums Sales Chart (Combined) – Εβδομάδα: 32-35/2025|publisher=[[IFPI Greece]]|access-date=September 3, 2025|lang=el|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250903084831/https://www.ifpi.gr/charts_el.html|archive-date=September 3, 2025|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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...Famous Last Words... (stylised in all lowercase), released in October 1982, is the seventh studio album by the British rock band Supertramp. It was the studio follow-up to 1979's Breakfast in America and the last album with vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Roger Hodgson, who left the group to pursue a solo career. Thus, it was the final album to be released by the classic lineup of the band (Hodgson, Davies, Helliwell, Thomson, and Siebenberg).

The album reached number 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums Charts in its third week on the chart dated November 27, 1982,[1] and was certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000 copies there.[2] It also peaked at numberScript error: No such module "String".6 in the UK where it was certified Gold for 100,000 copies sold.[3]

A remastered CD version of ...Famous Last Words... was released on 30 July 2002 on A&M Records. The remastered CD comes with all the original artwork and the CD art features a green pair of scissors and a black background.

Background and recording

Though Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson had long been writing their songs separately, they had always conceived the theme and overlying direction for each album together. ...Famous Last Words... became the exception to this rule: having been living in different parts of California in the months leading up to the recording, they each conceived their own vision for the album. Hodgson wanted to do another pop album in the vein of Breakfast in America, while Davies had envisioned a heavy progressive rock album with a 10-minute song called "Brother Where You Bound" as its centerpiece.[4]

According to Bob Siebenberg, "In the end, they both kind of changed their formats and their picture of what they thought this album should be. It became a diluted version of what it started out to be. It was really neither here nor there."[4] In particular, the band decided to leave out "Brother Where You Bound", since it was too "heavy" to fit alongside Hodgson's pop compositions.[4] Supertramp used "Brother Where You Bound" for their next album, Brother Where You Bound (1985), though it had by that point evolved from 10 minutes to 16 and a half through the addition of some new sections.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

As usual, the songs are all officially credited as being written by Davies/Hodgson. However, the sleeve notes colour-code the songs' lyrics by individual author. The lead vocalist on each song is the same as its writer: "Crazy", "It's Raining Again", "Know Who You Are", "C'est le bon", and "Don't Leave Me Now" were written by Hodgson, and "Put on Your Old Brown Shoes", "Bonnie", "My Kind of Lady", and "Waiting So Long" were written by Davies.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The album's working title was Tightrope.[5] The album was mainly recorded and mixed at Hodgson's home, Unicorn Studios in Nevada City, California, as he did not want to leave his wife, his then two-year-old daughter Heidi, and newborn son Andrew behind. Davies wound up recording his vocal and keyboard parts at his home studio, The Backyard Studios, in Encino, California. Other overdubs were at Bill Schnee Recording Studios in Los Angeles.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

At the time of the album's release, many interpreted the title (which at that point became ...Famous Last Words...) and cover art as thinly veiled hints that Supertramp was breaking up.[4] In a 2015 interview, Hodgson confirmed that he and Davies decided on the title because "we weren't doing [a record] again".[6] He said that he regrets recording the album, calling it "a last-ditch attempt to try and make things happen" after the life had gone out of the band.[7] Conversely, John Helliwell said in 1986: "We wanted a phrase that bore some relationship with what we were doing but was enigmatic at the same time. We always like to have enigmatic titles like Crime of the CenturyScript error: No such module "String".... This last LP we thought was going to be real quick. We thought we were going to rehearse it and record it real quick and it ended up taking longer than any other so we had to eat our words again. For the past three or four LPs we've been saying, 'Let's be well prepared.' So the title sprung out of that as well. I can't remember who first thought of it. The graphic design came directly from the title."[4]

Reception

Template:Album ratings A contemporary review in Creem savaged the album for its nondescript nature, concluding "this stuff is so soddenly bland already that the Muzak folks are going to have their work cut out for them".[8] AllMusic, in a retrospective review, found the album overly tailored towards commercial success, claiming that the group in general and Roger Hodgson in particular were too fixated on producing more hits, and that as a result "romantically inclined poetry and love song fluff replaces the lyrical keenness that Supertramp had produced in the past, and the instrumental proficiency that they once mastered has vanished."[9]

Track listing

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Personnel

Supertramp
  • Rick Davies – lead and backing vocals, organ (tracks 1, 7, 9), piano (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8), electric piano (track 2), synthesizers (track 3), harmonica (tracks 2, 9), melodica (track 3)
  • Roger Hodgson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9), 12-string guitar (tracks 2, 5, 7), piano (tracks 1, 3, 9), pump organ (track 1), synthesizers (track 5), glockenspiel (track 3)
  • John Helliwell – saxophones (tracks 1–3, 6, 8, 9), clarinet (tracks 7, 8), synthesizers (tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 9)
  • Dougie Thomson – bass (tracks 1–4, 6–9)
  • Bob Siebenberg – drums (tracks 1–4, 6–9)
    • This was the first Supertramp album for which Siebenberg was credited under his real name. All previous Supertramp albums on which he had appeared credited him as "Bob C. Benberg".

Additional personnel

  • Claire Diament – backing vocals on "Don't Leave Me Now"
  • Ann Wilson – backing vocals on "Put On Your Old Brown Shoes" and "C'est le bon"
  • Nancy Wilson – backing vocals on "Put On Your Old Brown Shoes" and "C'est le bon"

Production

2002 A&M reissue:

The 2002 A&M Records reissue was mastered from the original master tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, 2002. The reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson with art direction by Vartan and design by Mike Diehl, with production coordination by Beth Stempel.

The intro to "Bonnie" contains a glitch in the piano part on the 2002 remaster, and has never been fully explained (whether it was a mastering error, or an intentional alteration to the track). Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Charts

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Certifications and sales

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References

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