Showing posts with label Breakfast in America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breakfast in America. Show all posts

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Supertramp - Breakfast in America (35th anniversary)

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday.

Today (March 29th) marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Breakfast in America, the sixth studio album from Supertramp.

Click here for my complete review of this album-rock station classic from 1979.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday.

On March 29th, 1979, the British rock group Supertramp released Breakfast in America, their sixth studio album. This was the group’s best selling album ever, going Diamond in Canada, Platinum in the UK, and four-times Platinum in the US. Chart-wise, it hit number 3 in Italy and the UK, number 2 in Japan and Sweden, and number 1 in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and on the US Billboard Hot 200.

While nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, it did win Best Recording Package and Best Engineered Album Non-Classical.