Supertramp had been making ready to strike gold on September 25, 1974, so it was applicable that their new album launch that day was titled Crime Of The Century. It was the band’s third LP and the one which offered a industrial breakthrough, hit singles in each the UK and US and finally gold certification in each international locations.
Crime noticed the English band perfecting an ever extra profitable mix of their progressive rock influences and the pop-friendly fashion that they continued on the next Disaster? What Disaster?, Even In The Quietest Moments, the multi-platinum Breakfast In America and on into the Nineteen Eighties.
Breakthrough document? Bloody properly proper
The album featured such key songs by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson as their first UK hit single “Dreamer,” which reached No.13 early in 1975, in addition to the title quantity and “Bloody Well Right.” That was the observe that crossed Supertramp over from FM to AM radio in America when it made the pop High 40.
The album, which had a deluxe, multi-format reissue in 2014 to mark its 40th anniversary, was their first to make the UK charts, however it wanted the success of their singles to make an actual mark. Crime initially spent simply two weeks on the countdown in November 1974, reaching No.40.
However when “Dreamer” turned successful within the new 12 months, the album bounced again and climbed to No.4 in March. It was additionally their debut look on the Billboard 200, peaking at No.38 in a run that finally stretched to 76 weeks.
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