#SONG MEANINGS SUPERTRAMP SCHOOL HOW TO#
Throughout childhood we’re taught how to behave, yet we’re very rarely told anything about the deeper purpose of life. The song was born out of my questions about what really mattered in life. “Right away, I knew what I wanted to say. And in that moment, the whole concept for the song came into focus. Immediately, Hodgson reeled off words that rhymed: intellectual, radical… logical. And as I started singing the melody, the first word that came to me was ‘liberal’…” But then one day when I was playing the chords, I heard the melody. “I had these chords written,” he says, “and I hadn’t thought much of them, to tell the truth. The band were in Los Angeles, about to begin recording the Breakfast In America album, when Hodgson sat alone at a Wurlitzer electric piano and began playing around with a chord progression he’d toyed with, off and on, for a couple of months. It was in early 1978 that The Logical Song started coming together. However, as Hodgson says now: “ The Logical Song wasn’t co-written in any way. Hodgson and Davies had a similar arrangement to Lennon and McCartney in The Beatles: they wrote separately, but always shared the writing credits. Both sang lead vocals and played keyboards, and between them they wrote all of the songs. “A great song,” he says, “is one that people can relate to, that touches them, makes them feel something.”Īnd in The Logical Song, Hodgson drew on the experiences of his own troubled childhood to create an existentialist pop-rock classic in which he addressed the biggest question of all: the meaning of life.Įver since Supertramp formed in 1969, it was Hodgson and Rick Davies who formed the band’s creative nucleus. And as Hodgson acknowledges, it was the lyrical content, as much as the expertly crafted music, that made The Logical Song connect with such a huge audience. It also won a prestigious Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically And Lyrically. The Logical Song was the biggest hit of Supertramp’s career, reaching the Top Ten in the US and UK, and transforming parent album Breakfast In America into a chart-topping, multimillion-selling phenomenon. As a melody, a lyric, an arrangement and a recording, it really is perfect in its completeness.” “When you’re writing a song,” he says, “sometimes you feel like you’re eighty per cent successful, but with The Logical Song I felt like I’d nailed it one hundred per cent. “Having been brought up on The Beatles,” he says, “it was wonderful to hear Paul McCartney loved my song.”īut Hodgson always knew The Logical Song was something special. He chose The Logical Song by Supertramp.įor Roger Hodgson, Supertramp’s co-leader, it was the greatest of compliments. In 1979, Paul McCartney was asked to name his favourite song of the year.
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