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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • Breakfast In America
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  • eng
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  • 1979 singles
  • 1969 songs
  • Music videos directed by Bruce Gowers
  • A&M Records singles
  • Soft rock songs
  • Songs written by Rick Davies
  • Songs written by Roger Hodgson
  • Supertramp songs
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  • %22Breakfast in America%22 is the title track from Supertramp's 1979 album of the same name. It was a minor hit on the singles charts in the US but was a Top 10 hit in the UK.The song was written by Roger Hodgson before Supertramp were formed, during his late teens, but is jointly credited to him and his bandmate/songwriting partner Rick Davies. Davies wanted Hodgson to re-write the by-then over a decade old lyrics, but Hodgson refused, feeling that they were too intrinsic to the song and captured the innocence of his adolescence. The lyrics tell about a person who has never been to America and fantasizes about it. After Supertramp started performing the song during a %22reunion%22 tour without Hodgson, Hodgson pointedly told reporters that Davies initially %22hated%22 the song and that he believed Davies did not play on the recording at all. However, in other interviews, Hodgson has credited Davies with creating the vocalized retort line, %22What's she got? Not a lot.%22 The 2005 song %22Cupid's Chokehold%22 by Gym Class Heroes samples the music and chorus line from this song. The song was also sampled in Drake's %22Stunt Hard%22 and James Blunt performed a live version of the song which featured on the deluxe edition of his second album All The Lost Souls.
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  • Rick Davies
  • Roger Hodgson
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  • USAM17900029
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  • Supertramp
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  • PT157.93632653S
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  • 3128
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  • 1161361
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  • english
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  • A&M Records
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  • 1978
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  • Breakfast In America
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