Dreamer (Supertramp song)

"Dreamer" is a hit single off of Supertramp's 1974 album Crime of the Century. It peaked at Number 13 on the UK singles chart in February 1975. In 1980, it appeared on their live album Paris; that version hit Number 15 on the US charts. The song is also the shortest song on the album.

The band performed the song on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test show in 1974, during which John Halliwell can be seen playing the rim of a wine glass on top of his keyboard to achieve a certain sound effect.

The song was also used in the film The Parole Officer and is also used in the The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle movie.

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"I have a soft spot for "Dreamer". I remember doing it in my living room, doing a demo of it. And I think - I don't know where it came from but I know it came out all in a rush and I did all kinds of weird things like banging cardboard boxes and banging electric fires and anything that clanged just to um, I don't know why I did it at the time to tell you the truth but anyway that demo really pointed the direction the song wanted to go. And in fact when we started doing the song in the studio, it started going in a different direction and for a while we actually tried to duplicate the demo. We actually would play to the demo and try and duplicate it but the tempo was so off on the demo we had to scrap it. But we actually tried to get as close to the demo as possible. That's why there aren't too many real drums in there. There's more, I think there are even cardboard boxes on there. There's all kinds of things. There's mouth noises and um, there's all kinds of things happening".

--Roger Hodgson, In the Studio with Redbeard for the Making of Crime of the Century (first aired in February, 1990).