This song saved my life a few times when all seemed hopeless.

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R.E.M - Everybody Hurts (Live)

A cover of the Beach Boys version of the song.

Then I Kissed Her (The Beach Boys)

Roger Hodgson’s latest release, Classics Live, is a spectacular collection of live performances from his solo, band and orchestra shows around the world recorded on his 2010 World Tour. Roger, co-founder of Supertramp, is the singer/songwriter of the band's greatest hits to include Dreamer, Give a Little Bit, Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Take the Long Way Home, Fool's Overture, It's Raining Again, Hide in Your Shell, and so very many more.

The songs Roger Hodgson sings that are often referred to as Supertramp songs are songs that Roger wrote and composed alone - that is how he creates music. He will often hear the musical composition first and then the lyrics come. Sometimes he will hear the whole song complete inside himself before he puts it down on paper and recording. Supertramp as a band never wrote and composed together, there were only two songwriters for the band. The songs Roger sings lead vocals on are the ones he composed the music and lyrics for, and the songs Rick sings lead vocals on are the ones that he wrote.

The Roger Hodgson Store is the only place you can buy directly from the artist and get his autographed CD's. Visit www.RogerHodgsonStore.com

Be sure to catch Roger on his world tour. He is is currently performing acoustic, with band, and with orchestra. He is selling out shows all over the globe in addition to receiving fantastic reviews from media and fans alike.

Get your tickets at www.rogerhodgson.com/documents/tour.html or www.facebook.com/rogerhodgsonofficial/events.

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Classics Live Review
For most of my life, I've loudly and proudly identified myself as a Supertramp fan. All these years later, I listen with awe to the altogether stunning new Classics Live album only to discover that I am, in fact, first and foremost, a major Roger Hodgson fan. His is the voice that spoke to me as a young man, and speaks to me even more powerfully all these years later. An utterly inspired collection of live performances of the best-loved songs that Roger Hodgson has written and sung to date, Classics Live reminds us in the most vivid way who brought the world such beloved rock standards as "Give A Little Bit," "Take The Long Way Home," "The Logical Song" and "Dreamer," and why these shining songs endure as deeply personal yet somehow universal expression of longing, love and our endless search for human connection. Hodgson's performances on Classics Live were recorded in various venues around the world -- from France to Brazil to Germany to Venezuela. Some of the performances here are acoustic, some with a small rock band; others find Hodgson backed by an orchestra too, and yet the entire album holds together as the deeply felt song cycle of a lifetime from an artist who for too long has been too humble to lay claim to his own remarkable musical legacy. Roger Hodgson may have taken the long way home, but with Classics Live he's back and he has never sounded better.

DAVID WILD
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

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Give A Little Bit By Supertramp adapted and performed by Nico J Wouters

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On an Eddie Cochran kick. Here's 'Summertime Blues' for your listening pleasure/pain.

Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran)

Live in Philadelphia 2002  (Originally released on the soundtrack to Philadelphia in 1994.

"Streets of Philadelphia" (live) - Bruce Springsteen

from the  concert film The Song Remains the Same, Madison Square Garden in 1973

"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin (Live)

"Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel (Live)

Roger Hodgson wrote and composed the songs listed above on the Breakfast in America Album. Though all the above songs that Roger recorded with Supertramp were credited equally Hodgson/Davies, that does not reflect how it really was. Roger actually wrote his songs while he was alone and many of his biggest hits were songs he had written before he met Rick and co-founded the band. Roger and Rick actually wrote separately, though they continued to share writer's credit. Of course, it would have been Roger's preference if he'd had better advice and had all the songs he wrote in just his name and the ones Rick wrote just in Rick's name so there would not be so much confusion about the difference in artistic, lyrical and musical styles of each songwriter and composer.

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Roger Hodgson wrote and composed "Child of Vision" from the Breakfast in America. Roger gave us the great majority of Supertramp's hits to include Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Dreamer, Give a Little Bit, Take the Long Way Home, It's Raining Again, School, Fool's Overture, and so many more! Many people do not realize that although Roger and Supertramp's other co-founder shared writing credit, they actually wrote and composed separately with each singing their own songs.

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Be sure to catch Roger on his world tour. He is is currently performing acoustic, with band, and with orchestra. He is selling out shows all over the globe in addition to receiving fantastic reviews from media and fans alike.

Get your tickets at www.rogerhodgson.com/documents/tour.html or www.facebook.com/rogerhodgsonofficial/events.

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"I Want to Know What Love Is" - Foreigner (live)

"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. It was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the band's untitled fourth studio album (often referred to as Led Zeppelin IV). It is often referred to as one of the greatest rock songs of all time.

The song, running eight minutes and two seconds, is composed of several sections which increase in tempo and volume as the song progresses. The song begins as a slow acoustic-based folk song accompanied by recorders before electric instrumentation is introduced. The final section is a high-tempo hard rock section highlighted by an intricate guitar solo by Page and Plant's wailing vocals, ending with Plant's unaccompanied delivery of final line: "And she's buying a Stairway to Heaven".




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