Breakfast in America
1979 studio album by Supertramp / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Breakfast in America is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released by A&M Records on 29 March 1979. It was recorded in 1978 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. It spawned four US Billboard hit singles: "The Logical Song" (No. 6), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15), "Take the Long Way Home" (No. 10) and "Breakfast in America" (No. 62).[upper-alpha 1] In the UK, "The Logical Song" and the title track were both top 10 hits, the only two the group had in their native country.[5]
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| Released | 29 March 1979 | |||
| Recorded | May–December 1978 | |||
| Studio | The Village Recorder (Studio B) (Los Angeles) | |||
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| Length | 46:06 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Peter Henderson, Supertramp | |||
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At the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards in 1980, Breakfast in America won two awards for Best Album Package and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, as well as nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. It holds an RIAA certification of quadruple platinum and became Supertramp's biggest-selling album, with more than 4 million copies sold in the US and more than 3 million in France (the fourth ever best-selling album). It was No. 1 on Billboard Pop Albums Chart for six weeks, until 30 June 1979.[6] The album also hit No. 1 in Norway, Austria, West Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia and France.