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===1984β1988: ''Brother Where You Bound'' and ''Free as a Bird''=== The Davies-led Supertramp released ''[[Brother Where You Bound]]'' in May 1985. The album was a deliberate step away from the pop approach of their last two studio albums,<ref name="MelhuishBound">{{Cite book|last=Melhuish|first=Martin|title=The Supertramp Book|place=Toronto, Canada|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=1986|isbn=0-9691272-2-7|pages=177β192}}</ref><ref name="Bil1985">{{cite magazine|last=Vare|first=Ethlie Ann|title=Supertramp 'Bound' for Turning Point|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1CQEAAAAMBAJ&q=brother+where+you+bound+film+premiere+MTV&pg=PT37|access-date=8 October 2014|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=11 May 1985}}</ref> and reached no. 20 in the UK charts<ref name="UK chart"/> and no. 21 in the US charts.<ref name="Billboard"/> It included the Top 30 hit single "[[Cannonball (Supertramp song)|Cannonball]]", along with the title track, a 16-minute exposition on [[Cold War]] themes highlighted by guitar solos from [[Pink Floyd]]'s [[David Gilmour]]. A 20-minute film of the title track by [[Rene Daalder]] was used to promote the album.<ref name="Bil1985"/> Supertramp mounted a tour in the fall of 1985 through early 1986 that was their first without Hodgson. The lineup included Davies, Thomson, Helliwell, Siebenberg, Scott Page, [[Marty Walsh (musician)|Marty Walsh]] (guitar, backing vocals), [[Carl Verheyen]] (guitar, percussion, backing vocals) and [[Mark Hart]] (vocals, guitar, keyboards). Brad Cole sat in for Hart for several gigs in late October/early November 1985 after the latter was called away due to a family emergency.<ref name="auto"/> [[1987 in music|1987's]] ''[[Free as a Bird (album)|Free as a Bird]]'' experimented in heavily synthesised music,<ref name="progworld">Bollenberg, John "Bobo" (26 June 2000). [http://www.progressiveworld.net/html/modules.php?name=Interviews&rop=showcontent&id=231 Interview with Rick Davies, John Helliwell, Jack Douglass, and Georges Ohayon], ProgressiveWorld.net.</ref> such as "[[I'm Beggin' You]]", which reached number 1 on the [[Dance Club Songs|US dance charts]].<ref>[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=supertramp|chart=all}} "I'm Beggin' You" chart history], Billboard.com. Retrieved 8 June 2012.</ref> The stylistic change was generally not well-received, however, and the album itself reached only no. 93 in the UK and 101 in the US, breaking a streak of seven consecutive top 100 efforts on the American charts. In addition to their shift towards less commercially oriented material, the band members decided to drop all of Hodgson's compositions from their setlist in order to further establish an identity separate from him.<ref name="MelhuishBound"/> However, audiences were angered by the omissions of these songs, and although Supertramp toured in 1985 using only Davies's compositions, in 1988 the pressure from fans and their first tour of South America drove them to reintroduce a handful of Hodgson-penned hits to their set.<ref name="ThomInt">Majewski, Stephen (17 June 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110705132040/http://www.breakfastinspain.com/interviews/dougie-thomson-interview-june-1998 Doug Thomson Interview].</ref> The band's 1988 touring lineup was almost the same as it had been in '85/'86, but with Brad Cole returning in place of Scott Page and percussionist [[Steve Reid (The Rippingtons)|Steve Reid]] instead of guitarist Carl Verheyen. After 1988's tour, the group fragmented. Davies later explained, "We'd been out there for about 20 years just recording and touring and it seemed time to have a break with no ideas as to if or when we would come back. We decided not to actually say anything, just sort of fade away like an old soldier."<ref>Stevenson, Jane (25 July 1997). {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120710201420/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Supertramp/1997/07/25/750191.html Supertramp Reunion Was Logical Thing to Do]}}, [[Jam! Music]].</ref>
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