Paris (Supertramp album)
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| Live album by Supertramp | ||
| Released | September 1980 | |
| Recorded | November 29, 1979 in Paris | |
| Genre | Progressive Rock | |
| Length | 94:44 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Producer(s) | Peter Henderson, Russel Pope |
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| Supertramp chronology | ||
| Breakfast in America (1979) |
Paris (1980) |
...Famous Last Words... (1982) |
Paris is the seventh album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music).
Paris was recorded on Supertramp's Breakfast in America tour in November of 1979 in Paris, France at The Pavillion, a venue which was once a slaughterhouse.
The album's setlist contains almost all of Crime of the Century (except for "If Everyone Was Listening"), three songs from Crisis? What Crisis?, two from Even in the Quietest Moments, three from Breakfast in America plus one new track "You Started Laughing" (originally the B-side to the track "Lady" from Crisis? What Crisis?). The whole show was recorded but the songs "Give a Little Bit", "Goodbye Stranger", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Downstream", "Just A Normal Day" and "Another Man's Woman" were deleted from the album due to time constraints in order to make Paris a double album.
The Paris album was originally going to be called Roadworks.
Paris reached #8 on the Billboard Pop Albums Charts in late 1980 and went Gold immediately. and the live version of "Dreamer" hit the US Top 20.
In July 2006, the original master tapes of the album were rediscovered in the barn of the band's drummer Bob Siebenberg, along with video footage, not seen since the time of recording. The tapes were sent to Cups 'N Strings Studios in Santa Monica, California, for digital remastering. The tapes were initially in bad technical shape, but were successfully transferred. The video will be sent to Peter Clifton, the creator of Led Zeppelin's 1973 concert film The Song Remains the Same, in New Zealand, for further editing.
No plans of a DVD release are official as of yet, but probable, as it is a rare and previously unseen document of the absolute salad days of the band.
However, a remastered CD version of the album was released on July 30, 2002.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson.
-- Disc One --
- "School" – 5:41
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "Ain't Nobody But Me" – 5:24
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies
- "The Logical Song" – 3:56
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "Bloody Well Right" – 7:23
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies
- "Breakfast in America" – 2:57
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "You Started Laughing" – 4:02
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies
- "Hide in Your Shell" – 6:54
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "From Now On" – 7:05
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies
-- Disc Two --
- "Dreamer" – 3:44
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson with Rick Davies
- "Rudy" – 7:08
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies plus Roger Hodgson
- "A Soapbox Opera" – 4:51
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "Asylum" – 6:51
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies
- "Take the Long Way Home" – 4:57
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "Fool's Overture" – 10:57
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "Two of Us" – 1:25
- Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
- "Crime of the Century" – 6:31
- Lead vocals: Rick Davies
[edit] Personnel
- Rick Davies - keyboards, vocals, harmonica
- John Helliwell - saxophones, woodwinds, keyboards, vocals, Master of Ceremonies
- Roger Hodgson - guitars, keyboards, vocals
- Bob Siebenberg (as Bob C. Benberg) - drums, percussion
- Dougie Thomson - bass, additional backing vocals
[edit] Production
- Producers: Peter Henderson, Russel Pope
- Engineers: Bernie Grundman, Peter Henderson, Russel Pope
- Mixing: Bernie Grundman
- Mastering: Bernie Grundman
- Re-mastering: Greg Calbi, Jay Messina
- Sound system: Mike Berg, Norman Hall
- Lighting: Ken Allardyce, Tony Shepard, Tamy Smith
- Projection: Gus Thomson
- Art direction: Mike Doud
- Design: Mike Fink
- Cover illustration: Cindy Marsh
- Photography: Mark Hanauer, Steve Smith
- Liner notes: David Margereson
[edit] Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1980 | Pop Albums | 8 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1980 | "Dreamer" | Pop Singles | 15 |
| Supertramp |
| Rick Davies | Roger Hodgson | Bob Siebenberg | John Helliwell | Dougie Thomson |
| Richard Palmer |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Supertramp | Indelibly Stamped | Crime of the Century | Crisis? What Crisis? | Even in the Quietest Moments | Breakfast in America | ...Famous Last Words... | Brother Where You Bound | Free as a Bird | Some Things Never Change | Slow Motion |
| Live albums: Paris | Live '88 | It Was The Best Of Times | Is Everybody Listening? |
| Compilations: The Autobiography of Supertramp | Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology |
