Goodbye Stranger

Goodbye Stranger is a song by British rock band Supertramp, which first appeared in March 1979 as an album track on Breakfast in America. In July that year, A & M Records also as single, with the b-side on Even in the quietest moments. The single reached the fifteenth place in the Billboard Hot 100. In the Dutch Single Top 100reached number one 41st place. The Dutch Top 40 was not met, the single remained at number ten in the Tipparade.

The song was recorded in Los Angelesin september 1978. Rick Davies wrote the music.



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 * 2 Occupation
 * 3 chart positions
 * 3.1 Dutch Single Top 100
 * 3.2 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * "Goodbye Stranger" and "The Logical Song" were part of the soundtrack of the film Magnolia (1999).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  The cd Edition of this in 2000 reached the twentieth place in the Billboard 200.
 * The Italian writer Alessandro Piperno described in his book The Worst Intentions (2007) two characters who listen to "Goodbye Stranger".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]
 * In the last episode of the fourth season of the sitcom The Office parodieërt Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) "Goodbye Stranger" by "Goodbye, Toby" to sing at a farewell party by his employeePaul Lieberstein Toby Flenderson .
 * Rick Davies - Wurlitzer piano, organ, vocals
 * Roger Hodgson -electric guitar, vocals
 * John Helliwell -whistling
 * Bob Siebenberg -drums
 * Dougie Thomson -bass guitar