Crime of the Century (album)

Crime of the Century is the third album by the English progressive rock band Supertramp, released in September 1974. Crime of the Century was Supertramp's commercial breakthrough in both the US and UK, aided by the UK hit "Dreamer" and the U.S. hit "Bloody Well Right". It was a UK Top 10 album and a U.S. Top 40 album, eventually being certified Gold in the U.S. in 1977 after the release of Even in the Quietest Moments.... The album was Supertramp's first to feature drummer Bob Siebenberg (at the time credited as Bob C. Benberg), woodwinds player John Anthony Helliwell, bassist Dougie Thomson, and co-producer Ken Scott.

The album's dedication reads "To Sam", which is a nickname for Stanley August Miesegaes, the Dutch millionaire who supported the band financially from 1969–72.

Background and recording

After the failure of their first two albums and an unsuccessful tour, the band broke up, and Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson recruited new members, drummer Bob C. Benberg, woodwinds player John Helliwell, and bassist Dougie Thomson. This new line-up were sent by their record label, A&M, in particular A&R man Dave Margereson (who would become their manager for the next ten years) to a seventeenth-century farm in Somerset in order to rehearse together and prepare the album.

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Crime of the century

Crime of the century may refer to:

Crime of the century (idiom), a popular idiom to describe sensational criminal cases

Crime of the Century (album), a 1974 album by Supertramp

The Crime of the Century (1933 film), directed by William Beaudine

Crime of the Century (1946 film), directed by Philip Ford

Guyana: Crime of the Century, a 1979 exploitation film loosely based on the Jonestown massacre

Crime of the Century (1996 film), a 1996 made-for-TV movie about the Lindbergh kidnapping

The Crime of the Century (TV series), 1956 British television drama

Crime of the Century (Doctor Who audio), 2011 audio drama

"The Crime of the Century", a song from the musical Ragtime

Crime of the Century (soccer), an incident in Major League Soccer

Crime of the Century, a phrase referring to the Lindbergh kidnapping

Crime of the century (idiom)

"Crime of the century" is an idiomatic phrase used to describe particularly sensational or notorious criminal cases. In the United States, it is often — though not exclusively — used in reference to the Lindbergh kidnapping. However, the phrase was in popular use much earlier in the 19th-century and has been used repeatedly ever since.

Other criminal cases that have also been described as "the crime of the century" include the Leopold and Loeb case and the Richard Speck case.