Overview

• The Supertramp Partnership said Davies died at his Long Island home of multiple myeloma, with statements listing the date as Saturday and citing either Sept. 5 or Sept. 6.
• Davies co-founded Supertramp in 1969 and shared songwriting with Roger Hodgson before steering the band following Hodgson’s 1983 exit.
• He wrote and sang staples such as Goodbye Stranger and Bloody Well Right, and his baritone and Wurlitzer electric piano anchored the group’s signature sound.
• The 1979 album Breakfast in America topped charts and won two Grammys, securing the band’s international breakthrough.
• After canceling a planned 2015 European reunion tour due to treatment, Davies later performed locally as Ricky and the Rockets; he is survived by his wife and longtime manager, Sue Davies.