The American TV series Supernatural has an episode named after the song, which features it prominently during the closing scene. It was included on the 1999 soundtrack to Magnolia album, along with " The Logical Song", Supertramp's previous single on the Billboard singles charts. It featured in the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati during the episode "Baby, If You Ever Wondered". The song was covered by Lili Haydn on her Goodbye Stranger EP (2007, Nettwerk Music Group). Template:Citation needed Rick Davies is playing a Wurlitzer electric piano, Roger Hodgson and Dougie Thomson are playing their guitars (Hodgson on electric, Thomson on bass), John Helliwell is playing keyboards and Bob Siebenberg is playing drums and percussion. In the music video, the band plays the track on a soundstage. Some other parts of the lyrics might be references to very specific experiences the two shared, such as the "Goodbye Mary, Goodbye Jane", a common reference to marijuana, possibly being a reference to the event in 1972 when Davies refused to experience LSD with Hodgson, which the latter considers for himself to have been a mind-opening and life-changing experience, and which was one of the earliest points of disagreement between the two artists. 
This resonates with some of the songs' lyrics, such as these from "Goodbye Stranger": It tells a story of the two protagonists leaving each other, and the end of their relationship.ĭuring the writing of Breakfast in America, the group's main writers, Davies and Hodgson, had trouble communicating and had several disagreements: The song features two voices, representing two protagonists, sung by Rick Davies in the verses and Roger Hodgson in the choruses.
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