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===1979–1983: ''Breakfast in America'', ''...Famous Last Words...'' and Hodgson's departure===
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The band's switch to a more [[Pop music|pop]]-oriented approach peaked<ref>{{cite web | title=Supertramp on Music Charts Archive | date=11 December 2011| url=http://musicchartsarchive.com/artists/supertramp}}</ref> with their most popular album, ''[[Breakfast in America]]''. For the last two months of completing the album, Hodgson parked a camper outside of the studio to work diligently on mixing, with brief periods of rest in between.<ref name="CRRInterview">{{cite web|title=Roger Hodgson: What's He Got? Quite A Lot!|url=http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/show_interview.php?id=131Astronomique|access-date=26 August 2015}}</ref> He remembered feeling that "it could be a big album" and that he spent "days and sometimes weeks choosing the right songs and the right order of songs so one song flowed into the next".<ref name="AnthonyServante">{{cite web|title=Roger Hodgson Interview|url=http://servanteofdarkness.blogspot.com/2012/08/roger-hodgson-interview-with-anthony.html|access-date=26 August 2015|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208235845/http://servanteofdarkness.blogspot.com/2012/08/roger-hodgson-interview-with-anthony.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Released in March 1979, ''Breakfast in America'' reached number 3 in the UK<ref name="UK chart"/> and number 1 in the US and Canada. The album spawned four successful [[singles (songs)|singles]] (more than their first five albums combined): three of Hodgson's songs, "[[The Logical Song]]" (number 1 Canada, number 6 US, number 7 UK), "[[Take the Long Way Home (Supertramp song)|Take the Long Way Home]]" (number 4 Canada, number 10 US, not released in UK) and "[[Breakfast in America (song)|Breakfast in America]]" (number 9 UK, not released in the US or Canada) and Davies's "[[Goodbye Stranger]]" (number 5 in Canada, number 15 US, number 57 UK).<ref name="BIAchart">[http://www.allmusic.com/album/breakfast-in-america-mw0000308462/awards Billboard singles charts], Allmusic. Retrieved 26 August 2015.</ref>

[[file:Supertramp0062.jpg|thumb|Supertramp performing in 1979]]

To avoid an overly lengthy gap between albums during their hiatus, the band put out 1980's ''[[Paris (Supertramp album)|Paris]]'', a two-LP live album recorded mostly at the [[Pavillon de Paris]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Melhuish|first=Martin|title=The Supertramp Book|place=Toronto, Canada|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=1986|isbn=0-9691272-2-7|pages=163–5}}</ref> It broke the top ten in both the US and UK.<ref name="UK chart"/><ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/paris-mw0000195961/awards Paris Billboard charts], Allmusic. Retrieved 1 November 2012.</ref> A live version of "Dreamer" was released as a single  hitting number 1 in Canada and number 15 in the US, even though the studio version had failed to even chart there in 1974.<ref name="Billboard"/> And a second single from the live album, "[[Breakfast in America (song)|Breakfast in America]]", peaked at number 62 in the US.

Hodgson moved his family from the Los Angeles area to the mountains of northern California where he built a home and studio and focused on his family and spiritual life, while recording a solo album, initially titled ''Sleeping with the Enemy'', which would later be released as ''[[In the Eye of the Storm (Roger Hodgson album)|In the Eye of the Storm]]'' in 1984.<ref name="MelhuishFamous">{{Cite book|last=Melhuish|first=Martin|title=The Supertramp Book|place=Toronto, Canada|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=1986|isbn=0-9691272-2-7|pages=167–175}}</ref> This geographic separation widened the rift between him and the rest of the group; during the conceptualization and recording of their next album, ''[[...Famous Last Words...]]'', Davies and Hodgson found far greater difficulty in reconciling their musical ideas than they had before, and it was apparent to the rest of the band that Hodgson wanted out.<ref name="MelhuishFamous"/>

''...Famous Last Words...'' was released in October 1982 and scored two more hits with "[[It's Raining Again]]" and "[[My Kind of Lady]]". It peaked at no. 5 in the USA<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/famous-last-words-mw0000650851/awards ...Famous Last Words... Billboard charts], Allmusic. Retrieved 1 November 2012.</ref> and no. 6 in the UK.<ref name="UK chart"/>

A worldwide tour followed in 1983, in which the band was joined by two additional musicians on stage, former [[Alice Cooper]] and [[Queen (band)|Queen]] player [[Fred Mandel]] (guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals) and [[Scott Page]] (sax, guitar, horns, backing vocals), and Hodgson announced he would not be continuing with the band once the tour finished in September 1983. Hodgson has stated that his departure was motivated by a desire to spend more time with his family and make solo recordings and that there were never any real personal or professional problems between him and Davies, as some people thought.<ref name="Swindon profile"/>

In the meantime, the band's manager Dave Margereson had resigned from the group in July 1983 after a falling out with them, and sound man Russel Pope and several of the crew left as well, after Roger did, in September of 1983. Rick's wife Sue then assumed managerial duties for the group.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.breakfastinspain.com/index.php/interviews/89-supertramp-interview-even-in-the-quietest-moments-may-1977 | title=Breakfast in Spain - Roger Hodgson and Supertramp website - SUPERTRAMP Interview, Even in the Quietest Moments, May 1977 }}</ref>