Gone Hollywood

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Gone Hollywood is the opening track off of Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. Written and sung by keyboardist Rick Davies, the song tells about a person who wishes he did not ever set foot in Los Angeles.

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"No, I think "Gone Hollywood" was not…it was third person, not autobiographical. I think Rick knew what despair was like; he's gone through lots of periods of despair and you can hear that on CRIME OF THE CENTURY, I think that was definitely him, he was talking about, but I think he was putting himself in an American's shoes here - a little bit. I'm not going to say that totally. I mean, he's probably has felt like he's in a dumb motel in the middle of nowhere in Los Angeles. It was definitely Rick tuning in to the valleys of Hollywood. And seeing the shallowness and the difficulties. It's a pretty neurotic place".

--Roger Hodgson, In the Studio with Redbeard for The Making of Breakfast in America (first aired in June of 1990).