LONDON (AP) — Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter 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," “The the Long Way Home,” “The Logical Song," and “Give a Little Bit.”

The band's 1979 album “Breakfast in America" topped charts in the United States and Canada, won two Grammys and sold over 18 million

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