Cannonball is the opening track off of Supertramp's 1985 album Brother Where You Bound. Written and sung by keyboardist Rick Davies all in the chord of G. Davies stated in an interview "I did it simply to see if it could be done". Supertramp is a British progressive rock band that had a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Brother Where You Bound is the ninth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). ... Rick Davies, 2002 Rick Davies (born Richard Davies, 22 July 1944, Eastcott Hill, Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is a British musician, who is the founder and a member of the rock band Supertramp. ...

The lyrics to the song may have been seen as a veiled message to former member Roger Hodgson but Davies revealed in a French radio interview that the lyrics to Cannonball were inspired by a less than perfect concert promoter whom he refused to name but added that the guy knew who he was. Roger Hodgson (born Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson, 21 March 1950, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England) is a British vocalist and musician, and he was one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp. ...

The track became Supertramp's last US Top 40 single to date peaking at #28 on the Billboard singles charts in the spring of 1985. It also crossed over to the dance charts.