Abel Fuentes

Abel Fuentes López was born in Madrid in 1969, but he has his roots in two Cuenca towns called Belmonte and El Pedernoso. In 1992 he graduated in Physics from the Complutense University, and since then he has developed all his professional career in the banking sector, exercising different roles as a computer systems consultant specializing in payment methods.

It was during his student days, in the late 1980s, that he was drawn to the music of Supertramp. After delving into the history and discography of the band for more than a decade, in 2001 he joined the Galician Juan Lago to form 'The Logical Web', the most complete site about Supertramp and one of the longest running in the world.

Having compiled countless press clippings from every period, and after conducting almost one hundred exclusive interviews with all the members of Supertramp and their extended family of collaborators, he now presents this definitive biography, 'Tramp's Footprints', brimming with lots of information and the tales and anecdotes that tell the true and compelling story of the group in the words of the people at its heart, following the 50th anniversary of the founding of this unique and much loved band.

The history of Supertramp, one of the biggest and best rock bands from the 1970s, is as fascinating as it is unknown to the general public. Thanks to the support of a millionaire, the group was created in 1969 under the leadership of Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, two talented young English musicians with very different styles and backgrounds, as well as being contrasting yet incredibly complementary characters.

Shortly after the incorporation of Dougie Thomson, Bob Siebenberg and John Helliwell, through an extraordinary decade Supertramp conquered the world by releasing a series of albums as legendary and unforgettable as 'Crime of the Century', 'Crisis? What Crisis?', 'Even in the Quietest Moments', 'Famous Last Words' and, of course, the universally known and best selling 'Breakfast in America'.

With superb studio production and masterful live sound by engineer Russel Pope, who was considered the sixth member of the band since its origins, Supertramp's pop-melodic and symphonic sound would take the group to the top of the charts in many countries all over the world, thus managing to sell tens of millions of records and fill larger and larger venues everywhere.

Even though Roger Hodgson's departure in 1983 put an end to the successful commercial period of the band's existence, the popularity of Supertramp still remains intact and songs like 'School', 'Bloody Well Right', 'Dreamer', 'Give a Little Bit', 'Take the Long Way Home', 'The Logical Song', 'Goodbye Stranger' and 'It's Raining Again' have become, in their own right, part of the collective subconscious of several generations.