Paris (Supertramp album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Paris
Type = Live album
Artist = Supertramp


Released = September 1980
Recorded = November 29, 1979 in Paris
Genre = Progressive Rock
Length = 94:44
Label = A&M
Producer = Peter Henderson,
Russel Pope
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:djyvad4kv8wj~T1 link]
Last album = "Breakfast in America"
(1979)
This album = "Paris"
(1980)
Next album = "...Famous Last Words..."
(1982)

"Paris" is the seventh album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music).

"Paris" was recorded on Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" tour in November 1979 in Paris, France at the Pavillon de Paris, a venue which was once a slaughterhouse.

The album's setlist contains almost all of "Crime of the Century" (except for "If Everyone Was Listening"), three songs from "Crisis? What Crisis?", two from "Even in the Quietest Moments", three from "Breakfast in America" plus one new track "You Started Laughing" (originally the B-side to the track "Lady" from "Crisis? What Crisis?"). The whole show was recorded but the songs "Give a Little Bit", "Goodbye Stranger", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Downstream", "Just A Normal Day" and "Another Man's Woman" were deleted from the album due to time constraints in order to make "Paris" a double album.

The "Paris" album was originally going to be called "Roadworks".

"Paris" reached #8 on the Billboard Pop Albums Charts in late 1980 and went Gold immediately.and the live version of "Dreamer" hit the US Top 20.

In July 2006, the original master tapes of the album were rediscovered in the barn of the band's drummer Bob Siebenberg, along with video footage, not seen since the time of recording. The tapes were sent to Cups 'N Strings Studios in Santa Monica, California, for digital remastering. The tapes were initially in bad technical shape, but were successfully transferred. The video will be sent to Peter Clifton, the creator of Led Zeppelin's 1973 concert film The Song Remains the Same, in New Zealand, for further editing.

No plans of a DVD release are official as of yet, but probable, as it is a rare and previously unseen document of the absolute salad days of the band.

However, a remastered CD version of the original album was released on July 30, 2002.

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Track listing

All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson.

-- Disc One --
#"School" – 5:41
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson with Rick Davies
#"Ain't Nobody But Me" – 5:24
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies
#"The Logical Song" – 3:56
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"Bloody Well Right" – 7:23
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies
#"Breakfast In America" – 2:57
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"You Started Laughing" – 4:02
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies
#"Hide In Your Shell" – 6:54
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"From Now On" – 7:05
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies with Roger Hodgson

-- Disc Two --
#"Dreamer" – 3:44
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson with Rick Davies
#"Rudy" – 7:08
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies plus Roger Hodgson
#"A Soapbox Opera" – 4:51
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"Asylum" – 6:51
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies
#"Take the Long Way Home" – 4:57
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"Fool's Overture" – 10:57
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"Two of Us" – 1:25
#*"Lead vocals: Roger Hodgson
#"Crime Of The Century" – 6:31
#*"Lead vocals: Rick Davies

Personnel

*Rick Davies - keyboards, vocals, harmonica
*John Helliwell - saxophones, woodwinds, keyboards, vocals, Master of Ceremonies
*Roger Hodgson - guitars, keyboards, vocals
*Bob Siebenberg (as Bob C. Benberg) - drums, percussion
*Dougie Thomson - bass, additional backing vocals

Production

*Producers: Peter Henderson, Russel Pope
*Engineers: Bernie Grundman, Peter Henderson, Russel Pope
*Mixing: Bernie Grundman
*Mastering: Bernie Grundman
*Re-mastering: Greg Calbi, Jay Messina
*Sound system: Mike Berg, Norman Hall
*Lighting: Ken Allardyce, Tony Shepard, Tamy Smith
*Projection: Gus Thomson
*Art direction: Mike Doud
*Design: Mike Fink
*Cover illustration: Cindy Marsh
*Photography: Mark Hanauer, Steve Smith
*Liner notes: David Margereson2002 A&M reissue: The 2002 A&M Records reissue was mastered from the original master tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, 2002. The reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson with art direction by Vartan and design by Mike Diehl, with production coordination by Beth Stempel.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)