Rick Davies, lead singer of British band Supertramp, dies at 81

Supertramp leader singer and co-founder Rick Davies performs on Oct. 18, 2010, in Paris.

Rick Davies, the lead singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81.

Davies, who co-wrote the band’s music with Roger Hodgson, was “the voice and pianist behind Supertramp’s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,” the band said in a statement on its website.

He died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade, the band said.

Davies and Hodgson formed Supertramp in 1969, and produced hits including Goodbye Stranger and The Logical Song . The band’s 1979 album Breakfast in America topped charts in the United States and Canada, won two Grammys an