Special For The Item / The Daily ItemLYNN – Supertramp’s iconic Breakfast of Amerca album was part of the soundtrack of generations who came up in the 80s and 90s, and although the group broke up nearly 30 years ago, its familiar songs have endured, still played on airwaves around the world and recognizable to young and old alike.A week from Sunday night, on Nov. 4, the voice and cofounder of the iconic British group, Roger Hodgson, performs his Supertramp staples and more in a concert at Lynn Memorial Auditorium.In advance of the Lynn show, Hodgson’s publicist released an exclusively arranged Q&A with Hodgson to The Item, with insightful background about the band, its music and its frontman.Q: What we can expect from your concerts?I began my 2012 World Tour in Southern California. This year I am performing with an excellent band of four very versatile musicians. You will hear songs that I have written on my life journey – of course I’ll be performing all the songs people want to hear from my time with Supertramp. You can expect to hear The Logical Song, Give a Little Bit, Dreamer, School, Breakfast in America, Take the Long Way Home, It’s Raining Again, Fool’s Overture, etc., as well as some of my later material: In Jeopardy, Lovers in the Wind, Death and a Zoo and others. I don’t play Rick Davies’ songs – only the songs that I wrote and composed.Click below see Roger Hodgson perform The Logical Song.Q: Can you share about the part you played in making Supertramp a success and international phenomenon?Supertramp was my dream and passion for 14 years. When people hear my songs they think of Supertramp because my songs were most of the hits that people love, and they are still played on the radio around the world today.In many respects, I was the musical driving force of the band from the time Rick and I started it until we parted ways in 1983. I was responsible for much of the producing of the albums and tours. It was very important to me back then not to create just a hit single, which most bands were focused on. I wanted to create a whole listening experience where people were taken through a range of emotions – where at the end of the album they really felt like they had been taken on a journey and had a full course meal, if you like. I’d spend days and sometimes weeks choosing the right songs and the right order of songs so one song flowed into the next and the next. I did this for the concerts as well as the albums, and I still do this today.Q: Why did you leave the band?When I left Supertramp in 1983, it was to follow my heart, which was telling me it was time to make home, family, and spiritual life my priority. I wanted to be with my children as they grew up. I’d given 14 years of my life to Supertramp and at that point I chose to have my primary focus be my family and not my career. I also pretty much left the music industry and took my family to a healthier place to raise my kids – up in the mountains of Northern California. I moved out of Los Angeles and built a home studio so I could continue to create music and although I made a few albums, I never toured behind them.Q: How did you start playing and composing music?The guitar was my first instrument. My father used to play folk songs on an old acoustic guitar that he would never let me touch. When my parents divorced, it was his parting gift to me. I was 12 at the time and the moment I got it into my hands, my life changed forever. I took this guitar with me to boarding school in England where a teacher showed me three chords. After that, every spare moment, even between classes, I would go and practice. I started writing songs almost immediately and within a year, I actually put on my first concert at school of all original songs.I started playing piano when I was 16. I was primarily self-taught and developed my own piano playing technique. I have always experimented with different sounds. My original demo for Dreamer, for instance, was recorded on a two-track. I