About Roger Hodgson
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson is an English singer, musician and songwriter. He is best known as the founding member and former co-frontman of the rock band Supertramp. He wrote or co-wrote and sang the majority of the band’s hits including "Dreamer", "Give a Little Bit", "Take the Long Way Home", "The Logical Song", "It's Raining Again", and "Breakfast in America". Hodgson's first guitar, given to him when he was 12, was a parting gift from his father when his parents divorced. Hodgson's first band at school consisted of him on guitar and his friend Roy Hovey playing snare drums. When aged 19, Hodgson made his first appearance in a recording studio as guitarist for People Like Us, a band he joined shortly after leaving boarding school.
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