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Mar 25, 2025 Web Exclusive By Hays Davis

For Supertramp, certainly, it was the best of times. Live in Paris ’79 captures the band at their career high, with the Breakfast in America album having been released that March and topping charts around the world. The quintet had spent nearly 10 months on tour through America, Canada, and Europe at the time of their Paris shows, and Live in Paris ’79 (available in 2-CD and 3-LP versions) presents the tour’s complete show, as compiled from their December 1st and 2nd dates.

Supertramp’s enthusiastic French fans are with them all the way as the band explores the albums that feature their then-current, “classic” lineup. The setlist presents nearly all of 1974’s Crime of the Century and spans roughly half or more of the albums that followed. The big hits from Breakfast in America are here, including “The Logical Song,” “Goodbye Stranger,” and “Take the Long Way Home” as well as earlier successes such as “Dreamer” and “Give a Little Bit.” Along with fan favorites “School,” “Bloody Well Right,” and “Even in the Quietest Moments,” the road-tested, peak-performance Supertramp also delves into deep cuts like the nearly 11-minute “Fool’s Overture” and the non-LP B-side “You Started Laughing (When I Held You In My Arms)” (from 1975’s Crisis? What Crisis? period) with a zeal that matches the audience’s chanting fervor. (www.supertramp.com)

Author rating: 7.5/10