Supertramp’s Rick Davies died September 6, 2025

Rick Davies: the quiet fulcrum of Supertramp Rick Davies was pianist with a bluesman’s left hand and a sardonic baritone who built a global phenomenon on odd bedfellows: Wurlitzer bark and saxophone sheen; prog-rock architecture and pop instinct; his earthier grit set against Roger Hodgson’s high, airy tenor. Across five decades he was the band’s only constant, its principal organizer and de facto musical director, and one of rock’s most distinctive keyboard stylists. Davies died on September 6, 2025, at his home in East Hampton, Long Island, from complications of multiple myeloma. He was 81. Early years in Swindon Richard…
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