“School” by Supertramp

Crime of the Century, the 1974 album where Supertramp finally broke through, opens with "School", and it works as a calling card for the whole British band. Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson wrote it together and share the lead vocal, Davies on piano and harmonica and Hodgson on guitar, with Dougie Thomson on bass, Bob Siebenberg on drums and percussion, and John Helliwell adding clarinet and backing vocals. Ken Scott produced it with the band and engineered it with John Jansen.

For years it was simply the curtain-raiser on their third album. The single finally came in 1983, backed with "Oh Darling" from Breakfast in America; West Germany got it the following year to push the compilation Die Songs Einer Supergruppe, and a 1989 reissue, tied to The Very Best of Supertramp, reached 27 in the Netherlands.

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