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My Take
To me, Roger Hodgson owns one of the most instantly recognizable voices in rock history. The Logical Song, Dreamer, Give a Little Bit — those soaring melodies carried Supertramp from art-rock obscurity to global ubiquity, and they were largely his. What I respect most is the marriage of philosophical lyrics and irresistible hooks; he made existential doubt something you could sing along to in the car. Decades after leaving the band, his songs still feel current rather than nostalgic, which is the rarest achievement in pop music. For my money, he belongs in any serious conversation about Britain's great melodic songwriters.
Overview
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson (born 21 March 1950) 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".
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Roger Hodgson
- Name (Japanese)
- ロジャー・ホジスン
- Reading
- ろじゃー・ほじすん
- Born
- March 21, 1950 (age 76)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Tiger
- Origin
- Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / guitarist / pianist / songwriter / record producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.rogerhodgson.com/
- Xhttps://x.com/RogerHodgson
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Hodgson
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.