SUPERTRAMP - IF EVERYONE WAS LISTENING

IF EVERYONE WAS LISTENING

SUPERTRAMP

SONGWRITERS: ROGER HOGDSON & RICK DAVIES

WHERE: PLACE DES ARTS, MONTREAL, CANADA - 2013

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CRIME OF CENTURY

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE:ROCK PROGRESSIVE

YEAR: 1974

Crime of the Century is the third studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in September 1974 on A&M Records. Crime of the Century was Supertramp's commercial breakthrough in both the US and UK, aided by the UK hit "Dreamer" and the US hit "Bloody Well Right". It was a UK Top 10 album and a US Top 40 album, eventually being certified Gold in the US in 1977 after the release of Even in the Quietest Moments.... The album was Supertramp's first to feature drummer Bob Siebenberg(at the time credited as Bob C. Benberg), woodwinds player John Anthony Helliwell, bassist Dougie Thomson, and co-producer Ken Scott. The album has received critical acclaim, including its inclusion in Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time".

The album's dedication reads "To Sam", which is a nickname for Stanley August Miesegaes, the Dutch millionaire who supported the band financially from 1969–72

Supertramp (known as Daddy in 1969–1970) are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they later incorporated a combination of traditional rock, pop and art rock into their music.

The band's work is marked by the individual songwriting of founders Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies and the prominent use of Wurlitzer electric piano and saxophone. Though their early style was progressive, they enjoyed greater commercial success when they incorporated more radio-friendly pop elements into their work in the mid-1970s, going on to sell more than 60 million albums. The band reached their commercial peak with 1979's Breakfast in America, which sold more than 20 million copies.

Supertramp attained significant popularity in the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australasia. Since co-founder Hodgson's departure in 1983, Davies has led the band by himself.

The actors and jesters are here

The stage is in darkness and clear

For raising the curtain

And no-one's quite certain whose play it is

How long ago, how long

If only we had listened then

If we'd known just how right we were going to be

For we dreamed a lot

And we schemed a lot

And we tried to sing of love before the stage fell apart

If everyone was listening you know

There'd be a chance that we could save the show

Who'll be the last clown

To bring the house down?

Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall

Well, what is your costume today?

Who are the props in your play?

You're acting a part which you thought from the start

was an honest one

Well how do you plead?

An actor indeed!

Go re-learn your lines

You don't know what you've done

The finale's begun

If everyone was listening you know

There'd be a chance that we could save the show

Who'll be the last clown

To bring the house down?

Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall.