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SUPERTRAMP - BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

1979 - LP

STILL SEALED

Breakfast in America is the sixth album by the band Supertramp, released in 1979. It was recorded the previous year at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles. The album featured four hit singles: "The Logical Song" (#6), "Goodbye Stranger" (#15), "Take the Long Way Home" (#10), and the title track (#16).

Tensions between band members Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies started to come to the fore on this album. When Hodgson was interviewed for an episode of In the Studio with Redbeard devoted to the making of the album, he remarked "Rick [Davies] didn't like the song 'Breakfast in America' and didn't want it on the album. He also didn't want the album to be titled Breakfast in America either and I guess I won out on both accounts". Davies instead preferred either Working Title or Hello Stranger as the album title.

The album's front cover is an overlook of New York City through an airplane window. It was designed by Mike Doud and depicted Kate Murtagh as a Statue of Liberty figure holding a glass of orange juice instead of a torch and the background featured a city made from cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery (for the wharfs), eggboxes, vinegar, ketchup and mustard bottles, all spraypainted white. The twin World Trade Center towers appear as two stacks of boxes and the plate of breakfast represents Battery Park, the departure point for the Staten Island Ferry. The back cover photo, depicting the band members having breakfast while reading their respective hometown newspapers, was taken at a diner called Bert's Mad House.

Breakfast in America won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, beating out albums by Talking Heads and Led Zeppelin, among others.

Breakfast in America features a number of songs played on Wurlitzer electric piano, displaying its most distinctive abilities. (In particular, the different sounds made by the Wurlitzer depending on how hard it is played - songs such as Child of Vision or The Logical Song are built upon this sound.) The peculiar sound of the Wurlitzer had already been put forth in older songs such as Dreamer or Lady but never so extensively into an entire album, making Breakfast in America one of the best examples of the possibilities offered by this instrument.

Despite the turmoil, Breakfast in America became Supertramp's biggest-selling album with more than 4 million copies sold in the US alone to date (11 million copies worldwide) and was #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart for six weeks in the spring and summer of 1979. The album also hit #1 in Norway, Canada and Australia.

YEAR: 1979

LABEL: A&M RECORDS, INC.

SP-3708

BARCODE 0 7502-13708-1

PRINTED IN CANADA

Vinyl Condition : Still sealed so never used before

Sleeve Condition : Still sealed (shrink is a bit loose but sealed all across). NO CUTS, SAWMARKS OR PUNCHHOLES

MY VINYL RECORD GRADING TABLE:

• SEALED / Never Opened or Never Played
• MINT / Flawless
• NEAR MINT / Almost Flawless
• NEAR MINT MINUS / Almost Flawless With A Few Minor Light Scratches &/Or A Few Light Minor Surface Marks
• EXCELLENT PLUS / Minor Paper Scratches &/Or Minor Surface Marks
• EXCELLENT / Almost Excellent Plus
• VERY GOOD PLUS / Light Paper Scratches &/Or Light Surface Marks / Sounds & Plays Excellent
• VERY GOOD / Scratches, Surface Marks, Scuff Marks &/Or Maybe Pops But Plays Excellent
• GOOD / Many Scratches &/Or Many Surface Marks But Plays Excellent
• GOOD MINUS / Pretty Rough But Still Plays Well

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