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Tonight’s featured artists had their greatest commercial success with and album that gave the views and impressions of and Englishman in the US.So whose perspective of the US made turned into commercially successful songs? Well, the album about the experience was ‘Breakfast in America’ and that makes our featured band Supertramp.

Back in 1979, Supertramp became one of the most successful bands in America, thanks to that album that explored the US  from the perspective of an Englishman. In fact the band moved to California in the mid-'70s; Roger Hodgson loved it and lived there permanently. Rick Davies on the other hand was less enthusiastic about California and said "I don't think that's a place where anybody wants to settle down, not even Americans,"  and moved to Long Island. Like many English bands moving to America allowed them to keep a lot more of their income, as they would have been heavily taxed in England.