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.

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.

Supertramp - ...Famous Last Words...

After a few years break coming off their smash hit album Breakfast in America, the British rock band Supertramp returned in October of 1982 with their seventh studio album. Today we will take a look at …Famous Last Words… in honor of its thirtieth anniversary.

The album went Platinum in Canada (reaching number 1 on the charts) and Gold in both the UK (number 6 on the charts) and in the US (number 5 on the Billboard Hot 200). It also hit number 5 in Sweden, number 2 in Norway, and number 1 in both Germany and the Netherlands.