When you've sacrificed nearly everything to gain fame and fortune, it's a shock to realize that as soon as you get there, everyone and everything will seek to take you back down.
Five years or so before this album was released, Supertramp was at its peak. 'Breakfast in America' was a top selling album - played seemingly everywhere on the radio.
By the time this song came out (and after Roger Hodgson's departure), the band's prospects were increasingly bleak. The 70's were over, and bands like this were relegated (fairly or unfairly), to 'dinosaur' status.
To Rick Davies, this had to be galling. He and his musicians were still just as talented, still just as hard working. His bitterness comes out here and it's clear that although the music is important, success is a double-edged sword.
When you've sacrificed nearly everything to gain fame and fortune, it's a shock to realize that as soon as you get there, everyone and everything will seek to take you back down.
Five years or so before this album was released, Supertramp was at its peak. 'Breakfast in America' was a top selling album - played seemingly everywhere on the radio.
By the time this song came out (and after Roger Hodgson's departure), the band's prospects were increasingly bleak. The 70's were over, and bands like this were relegated (fairly or unfairly), to 'dinosaur' status.
To Rick Davies, this had to be galling. He and his musicians were still just as talented, still just as hard working. His bitterness comes out here and it's clear that although the music is important, success is a double-edged sword.