I’ve always hated Supertramp… except this song. Which is ironic. Because it’s illogical.

At school in the early Seventies boys would drool over the cover of an album called Indelibly Stamped. That’s the one depicting a naked and tattooed female torso. no head, no legs – basically just tits.

I can’t remember what it was like. Maybe nobody played it: it was an all-boys boarding school so they probably just drooled at the cover photo and used it as a substitute for real female torsos.

I do remember their next album, Crime Of The Century, because someone at school (probably the same person) had that too. And, although there were no naked girls on the cover, it was their breakthrough record thanks to two hit singles.

The first was the ghastly Dreamer, with Roger Hodgson’s strained falsetto and one-finger piano; and the second was even worse. Bloody Well Right was sung by a different band member, Rick Davies, and was very different. But just as annoying.

Both would go straight into my worst songs of all time list, if I had such a thing (Note to self…). But I really The Logical Song, which came along about five years later, in 1979, on an album called Breakfast In America.

I’d forgotten, until I played it just now, how much I like it, with its circular guitar line and – especially – the soaring sax solo that seems to release all the pent-up anger and sadness of the song’s lyric. Which is the core of its appeal.

Hodgson articulates perfectly the horror of being sent away as a small boy to spend the next ten years at boarding school: a critique of an education system that teaches boys all about how to behave – and nothing about how to be.

I can empathise with that.