12 Facts About Rick Davies

Richard Davies was born on 22 July 1944 and is an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as founder, vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Supertramp.

Rick Davies is generally noted for his rhythmic blues piano solos and jazz-tinged progressive rock compositions and cynical lyrics.

Rick Davies's voice is deeper than Hodgson's, and he usually employs a raspy baritone which stands in stark contrast to his bandmate's tenor.

Rick Davies later confessed that he lied about his abilities to get into the group, admitting he could not actually play the organ at the time.

Rick Davies decided to form a new band, and returned home from Switzerland to place an ad in the music magazine Melody Maker in August 1969.

Hodgson performed most of the lead vocals on this first effort but by the time of their second album Indelibly Stamped, Rick Davies had stepped up as a singer with he and Hodgson sharing lead vocal duties equally.

Rick Davies is credited with writing the answering lyric in the second chorus of Hodgson's "The Logical Song".

In 1997, during work on what would have been his first solo album, Rick Davies decided to reform Supertramp.

In late August 2018, Rick Davies gave a rare interview in which he expressed that, for the most part, he has overcome his health problems and enjoys playing music again, something he could not do around 2016, when he was under medical treatment.

Rick Davies' mother died in late 2008 at a nursing home in Stratton St Margaret.

Rick Davies travelled from his Long Island, New York, home every Christmas to visit her.

Rick Davies was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and cancelled the band's 2015 tour.