Rick Davies

British musician

Richard Davies (22 July 1944 – 6 September 2025) was an English musician best known as founder, vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Supertramp. Davies was the band's only constant member and wrote or co-wrote songs including "Bloody Well Right", "Goodbye Stranger", "My Kind of Lady", "Cannonball", and "I'm Beggin' You". He was known for his rhythmic blues piano solos, jazz-tinged progressive rock compositions and cynical lyrics.

Beginning with the band's debut album Supertramp in 1970, Davies shared lead vocals with songwriting partner Roger Hodgson until the latter's departure in 1983, at which point he became the group's sole lead vocalist. Davies's voice was deeper than Hodgson's, and he usually employed a raspy baritone which stood in stark contrast to his bandmate's tenor, but he occasionally sang in a falsetto which superficially resembled Hodgson's vocals, such as on "Goodbye Stranger" and "My Kind of Lady".

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Works

A Soapbox Opera
A Sting in the Tail
Ain’t Nobody but Me
An Awful Thing to Waste
And the Light
Another Man’s Woman
Asylum
Bee in Your Bonnet
Better Days
Bloody Well Right
Bonnie
Broken Hearted
Brother Where You Bound
Cannonball
Crime of the Century
C’est What?
Dead Man’s Blues
Downstream
Dreamer
Easy Does It
Ever Open Door
Free as a Bird
Get Your Act Together
Give Me a Chance
Give a Little Bit
Help Me Down That Road
Hide in Your Shell
If Everyone Was Listening
It Doesn’t Matter
It’s Alright
It’s a Hard World
I’m Beggin’ You
Just a Normal Day
Lady
Listen to Me Please
Little by Little
Live to Love You
My Kind of Lady
No Inbetween
Not the Moment
Over You
Poor Boy
Put on Your Old Brown Shoes
Rudy
School
Sister Moonshine
Slow Motion
Some Things Never Change
Still in Love
Tenth Avenue Breakdown
The Meaning
Thing for You
Two of Us
Waiting So Long
Where There’s a Will
You Never Can Tell With Friends
You Win, I Lose