Supertramp Singer And Co-Founder, Rick Davies, Dead
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Rick Davies, co-founder and vocalist of English rock group Supertramp and one of the group’s primary songwriters behind classics like “Goodbye Stranger” and “Give a Little Bit,” has died, the band confirmed in a tribute to the singer posted this weekend. He was 81.
Rick Davies, co-founder and lead singer of the British rock band Supertramp, has died of multiple myeloma. He was 81. Supertramp announced Davies’ death on Monday, shared on Facebook and its website that the voice behind “Goodbye Stranger” and “Bloody Well Right” had died following a decade-long battle with the blood cancer multiple myeloma.
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Rick Davies was the co-founder of Supertramp, a minor British progressive rock group who became a transatlantic pop phenomenon. His death, aged 81, brings the odd story of that band to an end, and with it one of rock’s longest simmering disputes.