Artist: SUPERTRAMP
Album: FREE AS A BIRD REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1987/ 2002
Media type: CD

Free as a Bird is the tenth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1987. Originally, the vinyl album featured three color variants - blue (pictured), green, yellow. The bird in the picture was a cut-out.

The album was the first Supertramp album to feature guitarist Mark Hart. The album was a turn of direction of sorts, with most of the songs being with a synthetic dance beat and turning away from their progressive rock sound.

Despite the fact "I'm Beggin' You" was a club hit and Free as a Bird's title cut was a minor hit, the Free as a Bird album did not do well peaking at #101, making it the first Supertramp album since 1971's Indelibly Stamped not to crack Billboard's Top 100 on the album charts.

The band disbanded after the tour in support of the album and would not re-convene until 1997 without Dougie Thomson.

A remastered CD version of the album was released on July 30, 2002 on A&M Records. The remastered CD comes with all of the original album artwork, lyrics and credits. Currently, though, it is out of print again, as it is the least selling of the remastered Supertramp CDs.

All songs written by Rick Davies, except where noted. Lead vocals by Rick Davies, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1."It's Alright" – 5:01
2."Not the Moment" – 4:37
3."It Doesn't Matter" – 4:53
4."Where I Stand" (Davies, Hart) – 3:42
Lead vocals: Rick Davies and Mark Hart
5."Free as a Bird" – 4:25
6."I'm Beggin' You" – 5:30
7."You Never Can Tell With Friends" – 4:19
8."Thing for You" – 4:00
9."An Awful Thing to Waste" – 7:50

LINE-UP:

Rick Davies - keyboards, timbales, vocals
John Helliwell - saxophone, brass
Bob Siebenberg - drums
Dougie Thomson - bass

Additional personnel:
Mark Hart - guitar, keyboards, vocals, background vocals
Linda Foot - background vocals
Nick Lane - brass
Lise Miller - background vocals
Scott Page - brass
Lon Price - brass
Steve Reid - percussion
Evan Rogers - background vocals
Lee Thornburg - trumpet, brass
Marty Walsh - guitar, background vocals
Karyn White - background vocals
David Woodford - brass