Editing Breakfast in America (section)

==Recording==
The album went through two rounds of [[Demo (music)|demos]]. The first were home demos, each of which consisted of the chief songwriter (either Rick Davies or Roger Hodgson) singing and playing either acoustic piano or [[Wurlitzer electronic piano|Wurlitzer electric piano]].<ref name="SOS">Buskin, Richard (July 2005). [http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul05/articles/classictracks.htm Classic Tracks: Supertramp's 'Logical Song'], ''[[Sound on Sound]]''.</ref> The second were [[Multitrack recording|eight-track]] demos recorded at Southcombe Studios in [[Burbank, California]] during late April and early May 1978. It was in recording these demos that the band worked out the backing track arrangements for all the songs (with the exception of "Take the Long Way Home") and determined the order in which they would appear on the album.<ref name="SOS"/>

In order to avoid spending a lot of time on mixing, the band and their production team devoted a week to experimenting with different sound setups until they found the perfect arrangement. The effort proved to be wasted, as the engineering team would end up spending more than two extremely stressful months searching for the right mix, and were finished after that length of time only because the deadline had arrived, not because they felt at all satisfied with the results.<ref name="SOS"/>

Tensions between Hodgson and Davies were reportedly almost non-existent on the album. Engineer [[Peter Henderson (record producer)|Peter Henderson]] recalled: "They got along fantastically well and everyone was really happy. There was a very, very good vibe and I think everyone was really buoyed up by the recordings and [[A&M Records|A&M]]'s response to them."<ref name="SOS"/> Hodgson contested this, saying that he and Davies had increasingly different lifestyles, and that he felt that Davies disliked many of his songs and kept quiet about his displeasure only because he sensed that he would be voted down.<ref name="Redbeard">(2009). [http://www.inthestudio.net/ 30th Anniversary Breakfast in America Feature] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208014251/http://www.inthestudio.net/ |date=8 February 2014}}, ''[[In the Studio (radio show)|In the Studio]]''.</ref> ''[[Melody Maker]]'' journalist Harry Doherty offered a third take on the duo's interactions during the album sessions: "In three days with the band, I don't think I saw Davies and Hodgson converse once, other than to exchange courteous greetings."<ref name="Melhuish" />