We’re proud to offer the original Grammy Award-winning album cover artwork for Supertramp’s worldwide hit Breakfast in America

Breakfast in America was an international bestseller, producing four hit singles: “The Logical Song”, “Goodbye Stranger”, “Take the Long Way Home” and the title track, selling 20,000,000 copies by 2010.  It topped the Billboard album charts for six weeks, also hitting number one in West Germany, Japan, Austria, France, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands, France and Australia.

Nominated for four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Breakfast in America won for Best Album Package and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording.  The Best Album Package Grammy was awarded to the art director and designer, Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty.  We obtained the original artwork directly from Mick Haggerty.

Haggerty’s accompanying letter of authenticity explains:

From Mike Doud’s concept, I designed and created the art for this cover, for which we won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

The cover image actually incorporates three different photographs; first, of a model city, sea and sky that I constructed; second, of a waitress who the band and I selected from a movie casting directory; and third, of an airplane window. 

I made a color photo collage combining the three images, each to the exact size and position you see on the cover, which was approved by the band. Then using three final color C prints, a photo retoucher was commissioned to cut and seamlessly assemble them to match the collage. This retouched image was then rephotographed and printed to size, and used as the final ‘reflective art’ for all commercial reproduction purposes. 

This is the original one-of-a-kind original artwork used to make the Breakfast in America cover.

Haggerty explained to us that the collage he made was discarded—he only saved this, the finished artwork, which was sent to the color separator to make the film to print the cover.

SuThe print measures 14 1/2” square, and is archivally framed to 22 1/2”.

Also included is Mick Haggerty’s Grammy Nomination plaque, the album cover ‘color key’ with four overlays, two different Breakfast in America promotional posters, and the color key for a live in concert poster, all designed by Haggerty.  He has signed each.

With Mick Haggerty’s letter of authenticity, and Recordmecca’s written lifetime guarantee of authenticity.

An extraordinary Supertramp collectible.

From Wikipedia: The album’s front cover resembles an overlook of Manhattan through an aeroplane window. It was designed by Mike Doud and Mick Haggerty. The image depicts Kate Murtagh, dressed as a waitress named “Libby” from a diner, as a Statue of Liberty figure holding up a glass of orange juice on a small plate in one hand (in place of the torch on the Statue), and a foldable restaurant menu in the other hand, on which ‘Breakfast in America’ is written. The background features the Financial District within the New York City borough of Manhattan, with the Lower Manhattan skyline represented through a cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery (for the wharfs), pancake syrup bottles, egg crates, salt and pepper shakers, coffee mugs, ketchup and mustard bottles, etc., all spray-painted white. The twin World Trade Center towers appear as two stacks of boxes, and the plate of breakfast represents The Battery, the departure point for the Staten Island Ferry… Breakfast in America won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, defeating albums by Talking Heads and Led Zeppelin, among others.