Roger Hodgson-In The Eye Of The Storm (1984)

 


Artist: Roger Hodgson

Title: In The Eye Of The Storm

Label: A&M

Format: LP

Cat #: SP 5004

Year of Release: 1984

Country and Year of Edition Issue: Canada 1984

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ with glossy printed inner sleeve

Sell Date: 12/8/25

Sell Price: $9.80

Discogs Last Sold: 9/13/25 VG+/VG $5.76

Low: $2.07

Median: $4.29

Average: $6.40

High: $34.77

Current low price: $1.99 G+/VG, $3.02 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 58

Have/Want: 1350/36

Where Sold: Bellevue, WA 

Time it took to sell: 2 years

Where and When Bought: vinyl lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

"Had a dream/It was WAR/and they couldn't tell me what it was FOR..."-In The Eye Of The Storm

Stepping out from sharing vocals with the recently passed Rick Davies in Supertramp, In The Eye Of The Storm is the sound of Roger Hodgson taking over.  In the selfish tradition of prog, nothing was to be compromised or left to chance.  Roger played all the instruments save some female backing vocals and session sax from Scott Page on "Hooked On A Problem" to close out side 1.

The lone AOR hit I knew was the the title track although I'm sure the radio hit was a single edit since this version is close to 9 minutes to kick off the album.  I have no recollection of "In Jeopardy" in it's day but it seems to have usurped "In The Eye Of The Storm" quite a bit in terms of digital popularity. However, on his most recent tour in 2020 of casinos, the title track was the only song from this he played. The other big standout for me is "Give Me Love, Give Me Life" which opens the second side.  At first glance I thought Roger was gonna prog out George Harrison but no, he just nicks some lyrics of that hit songs chorus to create a 7:33 insistent monolith.  Annoying, but I appreciate it on some level.  After all that insistence he rails on for another 7 plus minutes about how he is not afraid (of War!).  Then he closes out with another epic, an 8:40 forgettable piano ballad "Only Because Of You."

This one was a curio for me to hear, and while I always found the title track slightly annoying, I like it on some level.  I've been having this issue with Supertramp ever since I got Breakfast In America in 1979.  The 1984 musings of a neurotic tyrant stepping out from near 15 years of the security of the Supertramp monolith.

All Roger all the time over 7 long tracks didn't solve the problem.

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