Breakfast in America (song)

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Breakfast in America is the title track off of Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. The song was a minor hit on the singles charts in the US but is a staple of classic rock radio. The song's lyrics tell about a person who has never been to America. Recently, the chorus and the "ba da ba da" has been used in the song "Cupid's Chokehold" by Gym Class Heroes, and is sung by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy.

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Funny enough, 'Breakfast In America' had been around for eleven or twelve years. I wrote it in England when I was about nineteen. That's, in a way, why the lyric is so innocent (laughs) and we had a big tussle, Rick and I, about whether to put it, one, to put it on the album and two, whether I should re-do the lyric entirely. And I even tried and I just couldn't do it. The lyric is so much part of the song. Now we had a big tussle even about the title of the album. He didn't want the album title 'Breakfast In America' either. So I guess I won out on both counts, but it is what it is. It's funny. It's an innocent song written when I was seventeen or eighteen and I had to leave it the way it came out. I didn't even change one word.

—Roger Hodgson, in the studio with Redbeard for The Making of Breakfast in America (first aired in June 1990)