Supertramp was a British band that started out as prog rockers but then made a switch to pure pop.
In fact, that switch pretty much came with this album. Breakfast in America would go to #1, win 2 Grammys, and feature hits like the "The Logical Song." The theme of the album – and title and cover – was a pretty mild satire of the U.S.
The art director here was Mike Doud, who actually won one of those Grammys that this album garnered. I could find next to nothing on him, even though he got that Grammy, did 138 covers, and was the art director for Physical Graffiti. I really like this guy’s stuff. Very creative. Here are some of his covers, from some well-known and some not-so-well-known acts:
And here’s two more I like that Doud did for Supertramp:
The model, by the way, is Kate Murtaugh, an actress with 50-some credits of her own on IMDb, mostly TV. She died just a couple of years ago at age 98. Here she is with Don Knotts on Three's Company:
Hard to believe but the band, which was actually formed in 1969, is still around today.
I honestly don’t know any of these guys. I always thought the guy in the middle looked that dude on Trailer Park Boys:
Kinda surprised there aren’t more good parodies of this one out there:
This conspiracy theory about the cover (supposedly, it predicted 9/11) is pretty darn good though.
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