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Dear Roger,

I feel so strange and even uncomfortable while I write these words! I have loved Supertramp since I was a kid and my father bought "Even in the quiest moments". The first song ... that guitar ... that voice starting to sing "Give a little bit"! I must have heard that album and that song thousands of times since then ( I am 35 now) and still today I keep it as one of my most played mp3 tracks in my computer while I work as a website designer (in fact I was helping a big fan of you, Sebastien Lauzon with his site redisgn some years ago, what happened to this guy?)... So it's the first time I take this incredible opportunity to just say THANK YOU so much for sharing your music with the rest of the world, for making music, for turning a sad moment into a good one just after hearing a song. I hope you have realized with the years the inmense pleasure you have brought to thousands and probably millions of persons. To me your decision to quit the band mostly to familiar reasons only makes you bigger to my eyes. Your music and songs will be with me for sure till I am old.

Please excuse my poor english since I am from Spain. I hope some day I will be able to meet you or see you life and fullfil a lifetime dream (my father did not allow me to go see Supertramp in my city, Barcelona, in 1983 ... I was only 12!

Love and respect forever.

Maurici (Barcelona)

Hi Roger,

your music was part of the soundtrack of my life and still is! And my little daughter Emma (2 yrs. old) is your greatest fan: she listens (and us with her...) "It's raining again" repeatedly, dozens of times every day!!! :-)

Is there a possibility to see you in Italy (Rome, especially)? It would be fantastic! A dream come true!

My best wishes for your life, your family and your music,

Francesco

Dear Roger

Just bought the new DVD from Montreal in Montreal. I saw you and the boys in concert at the old Montreal Forum in the summer of 1977. I believe another band was supposed to open for you. But the curtain went up and Chris de Burgh opened for you. He was as big as you were here at the time. What a concert! I went to work after the show. I was an assistant at an old newspaper that doesn't exist here any longer (The Montreal Star). When the reviewer came in with his review I grabbed it. To my suprise it included a review of the band that was supposed to open for you. I think it was Trouper. Anyway I told my boss that he obviously hadn't attended the concert. The review ran as was. Well the sh...t hit the fan the next day. That's my little story from thirty years ago. As I said I love your DVD especially since it was filmed here. Too bad I wasn't there maybe next time.

Love Jennifer from Montreal

i am 7 years old. My grama and grampa are going to see you in canada. is there anywhere else that a 7 year old can go to see you Roger Hodgson? I love your song Give A Little Bit. I try to give a little bit by helping the Salvation Army at Christmas time. I realy would like to hear you sing in concert. I live in Michigan. Thank you for your music.

Avery

Roger, my name is Gord I'm from Brantford Ontario Canada. I bought your DVD a few weeks ago and I just wanted to tell you I loved it. I was only 9 or so when Breakfast in America came out and I still have the LP and CD to this day.

I never had the opportunity to see the original Supertramp and your DVD allowed me to close my eyes and feel like I was.

Anyplans on touring Canada again?

Sincerely

Gord

Roger, You have NO IDEA what a HUGE influence you and Supertramp had on me and my friends growing up in a small beautiful town in a valley in Manitoba, called Minnedosa. They sometimes hold "classic" rock shows there in the summer. I know that if you went there you would see the beauty that fits your soul, and be in touch with God. I actually met you years ago when you were in Winnipeg with the band in the early 80's. You were very kind and generous to me!! You let me have some wine and fried chicken that was behind the stage!! Please come back to Manitoba!!! It has to feel great knowing you have put out love into the world and look HOW MUCH is coming back to YOU. And, you DESERVE EVERY BIT of it, my old friend......

Love from Paul

I can't wait!

I heard you on Q107 with Kim MItchell a few months ago and I was blown away by your solo performance. At one point, I thought I they were playing the original Supertramp track. Following that, I started poking around the Internet and found some videos and then your website. Your DVD went on to my Christmas wish list and I got it. I've watched it several times and love it every time.

I think what really makes your performance special is how genuinely happy you are when performing and interacting with the audience.

I'll be anxiously waiting online to get tickets tomorrow.

All the best to you,

Dave

Dear Roger,

my name is Tim and I'm 5 years old. I'm a great Fan of you. My Dad too. He showd me the Concert of Supertramp in Munic and I listen your music every Day. My wisch: Maybe sometimes to meet you. The song Crazy and Give a little bit are my favourits. I'm looking forward perhaps you write back to me

good day your Fan TIM from Germany Fraconia near nuremberg.

Hello Roger:

I saw you in the airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia back in November after your concert the night before. I should have said hello and let you know that "It's Raining Again" was my first favorite song. I guess I would be about 8 years old at the time it came out. And you know, I think that is a big thing. Something awoke inside me when I first heard that song.

Thank you for all the great songs you have shared with us.

Regards,

Allan

roger,

I have treasured many years listening to your master peices with supertramp and thoroughly enjoyed your concert in st.john's nl, canada. I know you have received many compliments and comments over your incredible career, you have given back so much in return, with your amazing ability to reach out to so many people,and inspire them through your good works. Thank you for that roger, please come back to newfoundland soon, you have gone beyond your expectations, not just as a musician, but as a mentor to so many in this world, god bless you and continue your outstanding accomplishments!!!

sincerely,

shawn lee-devoted fan!!

Hi Roger,

I found clips of your DVD on YouTube after watching "It's Raining Again" from the old MTV days. I look forward to geting your DVD and want to know if you are considering a USA leg of your tour. If so, please plan a stop in Las Vegas where you will be greeted with great enthusiam. Your music is the soundtrack of our lives.

With great regard and respect,
Tom

I lost a dear friend to cancer in November 2005. I was thinking of him one day last week while sitting in the park where we first met, and your song "Only Because Of You" was playing. It was so fitting...

Thank you for all of your wonderful work. I will be a fan forever.

Page

hello roger..last time i saw supertramp was in the early eighties at the old cne grandstand in toronto you guys sounded so good i thought i was listening to an album best concert i ever seen in my life. my 19 yr. old son now listens to your music. i was real sorry i missed you at the casino rama. will you be returning to canada this year? i really hope so. good luck to you.

Bill

Dear mr. Hogson,

Even if I don't know your songs from a very long time, you are my favorite singer. When I listen to your songs in the morning I am smilling for the rest of the day.

Thank you

Étienne, 14 years old

Dear Roger,

i hope this message is going to reach you, I am writing from germany and i just wanted to tell you that i have been a roger hodgson fan since 1979, for me you have always been the heart of supertramp and i think you have gotten

even better over the years; i saw you in Schwetzingen, Germany in 2005 together with my son, who is very much into music and we were both thrilled, there is something around you that is striking (is this correct English?) not only as a musician but also as a very nice and warmhearted man; a few weeks ago i ordered your dvd; it is just wonderful, i don´t know how you do it but when i listen to your music something happens to me, your mucic is so

deeply touching, just wonderful! So i hope you are going to come to germany again soon, thank you for being you, you are really something special,

love

Barbara

Roger - My daughter, Kelly, was born the year you left Supertramp. Despite that she, like me, has become a very big admirer of your work over the 24 years of her life. We have our tickets ready for the concert in Birmingham and she cannot wait to finally see you perfrom "live".

You have been one of her main influences in developing her own musical talents.

Being a musician and teacher of Music she uses much of your music when teaching how to compose and explain harmonies etc.

It will be a great pleasure and honour for me to see you on stage once more - I vividly recall many of the performances I witnessed of Supertramp. I am sure it will be a experience my daughter will never forget.

Regards

Chris

Hi Roger,

I like it to say you "Hello" on this way. I must tell you that I was a very big fan of you - since more than 30 years. Your voice are so beautiful, heart-rending. In my youth your music with Supertramp was imporant for me in good and bad times. Your last concert in Munich at 24.07.1983 I saw it in front of the stage. It was great. Til today I remember this. I have ordered a copy of the original tape from german TV called ZDF, also the DVD from this. Last year I saw you in Bonn. It was a meeting with the past. Just I order your solo DVD. I can hardly expect it.

All the best for you and many greetings from Germany

Martin - your biggest fan

Dear Mr. Hodgson,

First, I would like to tell you how much of a big fan I am of your work! I am e-mailing you to let you know how much of a great singer you are. You really are a huge benefit to the profession, extremely talented, and a very important person in the world of music. I always listen to your songs with Supertramp, and my most, absolute favorite is "The Logical Song," which I enjoy listening to. You, Mr. Hodgson, are truly an inspirational person. I don't have many heroes, but you are one of them.

Harrison

I will keep this short for I know you must be overwhelmed with emails. I wanted to know if Roger will be coming to BC again soon? We live in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island and my son who is 7 and husband 47 are huge fans. My son received some money for Christmas and spent it on Supertramp CD's. I have been trying to find the Take the Long Way Home DVD here but am having no luck. Thanks for your reply in advance. :-)

Edna

Note: Hi Edna, you can order Roger's DVD through his website, just click on the store tab. Please let us know how you like it!

Hi Roger

Just wanted to say it is wonderful to hear that you are coming back to the UK to tour in October, I can't wait!! I have been a fan for over 35 years & your material is still THE BEST!! See you here in the UK in October & thank you for the memories both past & present!

Best Wishes,

Mike

please come in france

please

Please

philippe

Hi Roger!

Of course I am a fan of your beautiful and inspirational music; but I am writing to you for another reason. I am an RN in Maine and have devoted my life to 'healing'. Although I knew that this was my purpose in life, I also recently found myself in a 'dark' place spiritually, and could not find joy. When I received your DVD in the mail and watched it, it was the light in your eyes that inspired me and I was filled with the spirit and have experienced the most incredible peace and joy since then. Thank you, Roger for showing "eyes are shining full of inner light" as George Harrison so eloquently wrote. God Bless You on your road to enlightenment!

With much love,

Wendi

Hello,

your music solo or as supertramp-leader is until today very important for me and I hope, that you will make a new album soon.

I wish you a wonderful peaceful year.

So long

Rüdiger

I wish you all the best for 2007 and another successful world (?) tour that (hopefully) will lead you back to Germany!

I'd be very glad to see you soon again!

Best wishes from Schwetzingen,

Stefan

Roger, i live in Montreal , i'm 37 and grew up listening to your inspiration.... Just want to say thanks for being you and no one else. You've always followed your heart and that what gives unique soul prestance to your music. That was music is all about

MERCI!

Bruno

Dear Roger,

I am 37 years old and have been listening to your music since I was seven years old.

Your music has been a wonderful influence on my life ever since. A simple e-mail cannot express how truly powerful your music is to me. My wife and children are also huge fans and really love your music and all the music of Supertramp.

I am very glad to see you still touring and hope you will record a new album soon.

Thank you and God Bless you,

Bill

Oh, how I wish you would tour in the area of which I live. Raleigh NC USA area! I last saw you in 1974 and after viewing the DVD Live in Montreal, it brought back such vivid and happy memories. How I wish my daughter could also see you live. She is 15 and absolutely loves your music. Her favorite...Along came Mary. Hope to see you soon.

Gayle

Yesterday while on my 10 am and 3 pm breaks at work, I went out for my usual walk with my iPod on shuffle. GALB and Take The Long Way Home both came up. It had been awhile since I heard the studio versions. Roger, your songs never cease to give me pleasure, regardless of how many times I've listened in the past. I can't adequately describe how I feel, but it just takes me away and fills me up with joy.

xxx

Kathy

Dear Roger,

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know about the healing power of your music, both figuratively and literally, for our 2 year old son, Kennan.

Last week he had major surgery to repair problems with his kidney and diaphragm. Both Kennan and my 5 year old son Carter, have become big fans watching the "Live in Montreal" DVD. About 4 hours after the surgery we were trying to distract Kennan from his discomfort and we asked his if he'd like to watch something on TV- he said "Roger." He requested his favorite songs, "Dreamer", "Logical", and "Breakfast", we popped in the DVD and he was all smiles.

Both my boys got to see you in concert this summer in Minneapolis. My wife and I have travelled many miles to see you. We saw you on the '83 tour, in the late 90s in Milwaukee and Thunder Bay, Ont , and more recently at Casino Rama, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. We wanted to let you know that your songs have become so much a part of our lives. Now, when we travel by car, my sons request your songs by name for us to play on the CD player (It sure beats Barney music!) Thank you for all your wonderful music and for going back on tour and sharing it with all of us. Your music has touched my life many times, and it is continuing to do so within my family. Your songs became an important part of my son's healing from surgery. Thank you! Thank you for your music and we hope to see you perform again in the near future!

Joe & Jodi

Carter & Kennan

Hi Roger, All the best for 2007 to you and your family. Hope to see you soon again with my kids. Céline is creasy about you and your music. Thanks for moments in Theux, they were once again majic.

Best regards to all of you,

Ben

Dear Roger:

Since I was 15 years old, twenty years ago!! I 've listening to your beautiful music, and I had only one dream in my life, and I told it to my husband, that dream was listening to Roger Hodgson live. One afternoon, my loving husband said to me:.." Darling please sit down, I've something to tell you, Roger plays next week in Rosario Argentina...". Of course I didn' t believe him and I laugh a lot, but after a minutes when he show me the two tickets, first I cried, and then I woke up in the floor, really!!!!.

Well, so, this perhaps boring story is just to tell you that my dream came true, and that seeing you has been the most beautiful and important day of my life, I was not healthy at that time, please, come back again soon when ever you can, ARGENTINIAN FANS LOVE YOU ROGER!!!

That's the desire... when you've already got it, you want another again, but... please, come back soon, your music has changed the life of lots of friends of mine, and many patients too, I am a physician in psychoanalisis, and many patients have told me that they love you, and so do I. Thanks again, really, you are just great, your voice really comes from your heart, and we can imagine how deep is your heart, just listening to you.

Thanks again, and love from Mary jo and Gabriel

Roger,

I just want to thank you Roger for all the years you have given to us. I live in Montreal and was hooked on ST the moment I heard the opening to school. From the concerts at the Forum and Jarry park in the 70's, your music and lyrics accompanied me to school in Alberta and helped keep Montreal closer in my heart through your songs. When I returned to Montreal in the 80's, I worked security at the Forum during your final 3 shows. I even roamed through Alexis Nihon Plaza across from the forum with you guys before the third show where you were able to walk around anonymously. I even brought my cover of Even in the Quietest Moments to the Forum and watched as you all signed it for, just to have it taken away from me because we were not permitted to ask for autographs. I was lucky to marry a woman with as much love for your music as I had (There are CD's in both our cars as well as in the home) That sustained us until your show in August. We were 7th row and I guess you can say seventh heaven. Your songs brought back magical, powerful memories for me, bringing me to tears quite often as certain songs overwhelmed me, reliving special moments in my life.

I am friends with Terry and Ted at CHOM and I believe I am the first message to you on the thank you track CHOM 97.7 in Montreal sent to you back in November.

Thank you again Roger, your music is with me in my heart always. I hope you have a wonderful New Year, good health, and I hope you make it back to Montreal again soon, I bought your DVD the day it was available.

With warmest regards,

Glen

Hi Roger:

I have been a fan of yours since I was a young girl in the 70s and recently saw you at Casino Rama in Orillia, ON. Being a piano player and composer of music myself, I was fascinated by your new song Lovers in the Wind. I have your new DVD which is wonderful and play it daily.

Thanks, Roger.

Carolyn

Thank you

I am hoping that in the near future you reunite with Supertramp. I saw a concert in 1979 in Montreal. And my 14 year old loves your music.

Best wishes in 2007

Come to Moncton New Brunswick Canada. The Stones did.

Mike

Dear Roger,

This year you helped me through a dark passage in my life. All my love and thankfulness goes to you and your team, too. I am desperately waiting for your next concert in Germany though I´ll see you in Bournemouth as well ! Hope. Health and Happiness to you and SHOW YOUR SMILE, you showed you care, we´ll show we care. Thank you and take care yourself.

Miriam

Dear Friends,

I want to wish the best Christmas in the world, with all the happiness you want and lots of success to the new year 2007! Warmest regards to Roger and hope that we can meet again one of this days!

Sincerely yours,

Alberto

Hi Roger, Linda, Shakti, and Aaron

Thanks again for another wonderful year of musical memories! The concerts at Calgary and Nakusup were the highlight of 2006. Watching Roger get a chuckle out of Aaron's "what's he got, not a lot" was priceless.

We started a new family tradition this year by singing "Give a Little Bit" at our family Christmas gathering. It just seemed a perfect setting to include it with the other Carols. Four generations joined in, which was pretty cool. Got in one take, also.

Hope you all have a great holiday season. Terri and I are trying to figure out a way to cross the pond to see a UK show. Hope to see you then.

With love,

The Werths

Dear Mr. Hodgson,

I simply want to express my gratitude for your music which has captured and bouyed my heart at difficult and dark moments in my passage. I had a roomy who discovered SuperTramp in the 70's and got me tuned to your sensitive wavelength. I empathize (as do many I'm sure) with your loneliness and disaffection being at boarding school and the "soberness" of an English upbringing. I am Irish -- my father never having learned to say, "I love you" till after I forced it on him in the 60's and 70's.

May your perception of life grow sweeter all the time.

Terence

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

HELLO!!!

I hope all is well with you and yours this holiday season!! I look so forward to seeing you all this coming year. Sending you all our love and joy this Christmas from our family to yours!

Love Aaron, Andrea and Preah

Dear Roger,

I just want to send you all my best wishes for the Holiday Season to you, family and friends. I hope that 2007 will bring you all kinds of nice surprises, and all the love and recognition you deserve because you are gifted. I'd really like to see you live this year.

Love Natalie

Joan and I wish you, Shakti and Roger a wonderful holiday. It was a great pleasure for us to get to know you all a little more this year. I hope that we see you again in 2007....perhaps at Rama.

I have selected and corrected my favorite shots. I will send them under separate cover....

Lots of Love!!

Rich & Joan

Dear Linda and Rodger,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! We hope , that we will have the luck to make great music together in 2007!

yours sincerely

Zoya+Andrey and "Plovdiver Symphoniker"

Roger,

The first ever record (LP album) bought was Crime of the Century, since then upgraded to CD quality for all albums. Your last DVD is really bringing tears to my eyes and really look forward to you touring Europe and especially the Netherlands. Any chance on that in 2007??

All the best for 2007.

regards

nico

Dear team,

Thanks for the nice Christmas cart you send, It means a lot to me I want to wish you a very nice Christmas and a happy new year wishing you

12 months of happiness

52 weeks of fun

365 days success

8760 hours good health

525600 minutes of good luck and

3153600 seconds of joy and working together.

I also want to thank everyone for the time and moments we spend together.

Lets hoop next year will be as special as this year.

See you all next year

Take care, and much love.

Howard & Renate.

This is the first message that I send since I' ve got internet. I hope you will receive it ...

"MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and Roger".

I hope that 2007 will offer me the possibility to see you again.

Best regards .

Laurent DAUBORD from CEYRAT / FRANCE .

Thank You Roger

It's the classic I know what was going on in my life and the feelings during that time period every time I listen to your music.

Breakfast was a hit when I was in 9th grade and it makes me remember that great summer and your music.

Still get chills - I'm 42 now :)

Sid

Hi Shakti.

Please thank Roger and all your crew (you included) for organizing his concerts in Alberta this year. It has been awesome seeing him twice - especially the event at The Jack Singer Hall with our kids. Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year. Looking forward to seeing you again in 2007. Take Care.

Bob Harrison & family.

Dear Roger,

I've benn listening to your music since I was 13 (now I'm 39), and I've been in every concert you've played in Madrid, Spain. (Wonderfull all of them).

I would like to know you next time you come back again to Madrid, as fan of your music. Will you come back soon?

PS. I didn't understand the meaning of some lyrics or didn't appreciate the "intention" till I discover Yogananda's teachings, then the real meaning came clear reading between lines or directly (Babaji, Lord is it mine, give a little bit, easy does it,).

Hello Roger!

I am a long time Supertramp fan and fan of yours. I saw the Supertramp show in Toronto about 4 years ago and it was awesome, especially the piano solo you did. I had tickets to see you at Casino Rama but missed the show. Why? Because I was running for mayor of Niagara Falls (Ontario) and was so caught up in campaigning.... well to make a long story short, I lost and I am kicking myself for not going to the concert. So when I saw the DVD of the concert in Montreal at Walmart, well I had to pick it up. It was amazing... I felt like I was there. I have an 8 year old boy named Taylor. He is learning piano and trying to play your songs. Always a big fan.

God bless you. Steve