Goodbye Stranger
by Supertramp
- 125
- BPM
- Ab major
- Key
- 4B
- Camelot
- 42
- Danceability
- 61
- Acousticness
Rick Davies wrote "Goodbye Stranger" for Supertramp. It first appeared on their sixth studio album, Breakfast in America, in 1979. The lyrics present an optimistic view from a drifter.
Davies sings the lead, with Roger Hodgson on the high backing vocals. Hodgson also plays the guitar solo at the end of the song, which Brett Milano of UDiscover Music put among the 100 greatest of all time. The two singers trade lines in the song.
Supertramp was a British band formed in London in 1970 around two founders who each wrote on their own, Hodgson and Davies. Their classic lineup lasted from 1973 to 1983 and also included Dougie Thomson on bass, Bob Siebenberg on drums and John Helliwell on saxophone. Breakfast in America was their commercial peak. It produced four international top 10 singles, with "Goodbye Stranger" among them.
Goodbye Stranger runs at 125 BPM, the tempo of house, disco and most club dance music. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.92 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 480 ms. It is in Ab major, Camelot 4B, which shares its notes with F minor and mixes cleanly with Db major and Eb major.
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