IN JEOPARDY (EDIT)

While I'm at it, I want to stay a little longer re-listening -- after decades -- to the songs of Hodgson's solo debut In the Eye of the Storm that I used to have as a teenager. 'In Jeopardy' was the second single, and it's less rocking than 'Had a Dream' and more in the style of the uptempo Hodgson songs on the classic SUPERTRAMP albums. The sharp-toned keyboards are in the leading role in the arrangement, everything played sovereignly by Hodgson except for the drums played by Michael Shrieve of Santana fame. Ken Allardyce adds some Rick Davies-reminding additional vocals, thus increasing the Supertramp feel. The song is not on the same level with the best of what Hodgson had done in the band context but it comes pretty near, and sonically it would be easy to imagine on the first -- and by far the best -- Hodgson-less Supertramp album Brother Where You Bound (1985), if the paths had not separated.

The B side song 'I'm Not Afraid' was also taken from the album In the Eye of the Storm. This song is more aggressive especially for the vocals and it's quite bluesy in music, featuring a harmonica solo from Ken Allardyce. Funnily this all makes it more reminiscent of Rick Davies's style than Hodgson's own! Maybe he deliberately attempted to make a Davies-like song.

As a single with no tracks outside the album this one is as non-essential as 'Had a Dream' which in my opinion has a boring A side rocker and an excellent ballad on the B side. 'In Jeopardy' is notably better hit and it peaked at number 30 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart but failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100.