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10cc Returns To Touring After More Than 30 Years

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Legendary ’70s hitmakers, 10cc, are set to embark on their long-awaited U.S. tour, marking their first visit to America in over three decades. Known for their chart-topping singles like “I’m Not In Love” and “The Things We Do for Love,” the band is ready to captivate audiences once again. The upcoming tour, named the “Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour,” promises to be an unforgettable musical experience for fans old and new.

Reconnecting with American Audiences

10cc’s iconic single, “I’m Not In Love,” conquered the U.S. charts, reaching No. 2 in 1975. Following its success, 10cc attained another Top 5 hit in 1976 with “The Things We Do for Love.” The songs, composed by Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart, became staples of their repertoire and showcased the band’s remarkable songwriting abilities.

Gouldman’s Leadership and Timeless Songs

Gouldman, the driving force behind 10cc, continues to lead the group. Reflecting on their enduring appeal, he states, “They don’t seem to date. We never followed any trend; we simply wrote for our own pleasure. The fact that the songs are being played as often on the radio as they ever were shows how true that is.”

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Resurgence in Pop Culture

While the band experienced a slowdown in the ’80s and ’90s, their music remained relevant. The soundtrack to the blockbuster film “Guardians of the Galaxy” prominently featured “I’m Not In Love,” reintroducing it to a new generation of listeners. Additionally, their 1978 chart-topper “Dreadlock Holiday” was included in the soundtrack of “The Social Network” in 2010. These appearances solidified 10cc’s lasting impact on popular culture.

The Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour

Fans eagerly anticipate the upcoming tour, which kicks off in July at Montclair, N.J., and proceeds to various cities, including New York City, St. Louis, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, culminating in August. The band’s website, 10cc.world, provides details regarding meet-and-greet packages and VIP tickets during the pre-sale period.

July 24 — Montclair, NJ @ Welmont Theatre July 25 — New York, NY @ Sony Hall July 26 — Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre July 27 — Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre July 29 — Ocean City, NJ @ Ocean City Music Pier July 30 — Kent, OH @ Kent Stage Aug. 1 — St. Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre Aug. 2 — Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater Aug. 3 — St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant Aug. 4 — Cincinnati, OH @ Ludlow Garage Aug. 5 — Indianapolis, IN @ Toby Theater at Newfields Aug. 6 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville Aug. 8 — Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre Aug. 9 — San Antonio, TX @ Empire Theatre Aug. 10 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater Aug. 12 — Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater Aug. 15 — Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway Aug. 17 — San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts

Notable Band Members

While Gouldman remains the only founding member consistently involved in every 10cc project, the current lineup also includes two other legacy members. Drummer Paul Burgess, who initially joined as a touring member in 1973 before fully joining in time for 1977’s “Deceptive Bends,” brings his rhythmic expertise to the stage. Guitarist Rick Finn joined soon after and made his mark on 10cc’s 1977 concert recording, “Live and Let Live.”

The news of 10cc’s “Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour” has sparked excitement among fans who have eagerly awaited their return to the United States. With their timeless songs and Graham Gouldman’s visionary leadership, 10cc promises to deliver an exceptional live experience. As the tour schedule indicates, the band will be performing in various major cities across the country, bringing their iconic sound to fans both old and new. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to witness 10cc’s revival in action.

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10cc Expands 2024 Tour, With First U.S. Shows in Over 30 Years

10cc in 2022 (Photo: Martin Porter; used with permission)

10cc have announced several dozen U.K. dates for this fall. The concerts are in addition to their first North American tour in over three decades, as well as many other shows in Europe and Ireland. The U.S. edition of their “Ultimate Greatest Hits” tour, featuring such classics as “I’m Not in Love,” “The Things We Do For Love” and “Dreadlock Holiday,” will take place in summer 2024 with a 20-date coast-to-coast itinerary. Pre-sale tickets for the U.K. shows, billed as the “ Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits” tour are available beginning March 21 at 9 a.m. GMT. Tickets for the U.S. dates are also available here .

The 10cc live lineup is led by founding member Graham Gouldman on bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar and vocals. He’ll be joined by Rick Fenn – lead electric guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals; Paul Burgess – drums, percussion, keyboards; Iain Hornal – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, mandolin, keyboards, vocals; and Keith Hayman – keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar, vocals.

“I’m Not In Love,” written by Gouldman and Eric Stewart and released in 1975, had a second life after being prominently featured in the soundtrack to the 2014 blockbuster film, Guardians of the Galaxy , spawning a number one soundtrack album. A 2024 box set is available to order in the U.S. here and the U.K. here .

Graham Gouldman in 2021

Gouldman attributes 10cc’s lasting appeal to the quality and individuality of the band’s songs. “They don’t seem to date. We never followed any trend we simply wrote for our own pleasure. The fact that the songs are being played as often on the radio as they ever were shows how true that is.”

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10cc Ultimate Greatest Hits U.S. Tour (Tickets are available here ) Jul 24 Montclair, NJ – Welmont Theatre Jul 25 New York, NY – Sony Hall Jul 26 Patchogue, NY – Patchogue Theatre Jul 27 Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre Jul 29 Ocean City, NJ – Ocean City Music Pier Jul 30 Kent, OH – Kent Stage Aug 01 St Charles, IL – The Arcada Theatre Aug 02 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater Aug 03 St Louis, MO – The Pageant Aug 04 Cincinnati, OH – Ludlow Garage Aug 05 Indianapolis, IN – Toby Theater at Newfields Aug 06 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville Aug 08 Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre Aug 09 San Antonio, TX – Empire Theatre Aug 10 Austin, TX – ACL at Moody Theatre Aug 12 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater Aug 15 Los Angeles, CA – Theatre at Ace Hotel Aug 17 San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts

10cc Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits U.K., Ireland and European Tour Mar 21 – Bournemouth, UK – Pavilion Mar 22 – Oxford, UK – New Theatre Mar 23 – Swansea, UK – Swansea Arena Mar 25 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall Mar 26 – Southend, UK – Cliffs Pavilion Apr 09 – Utrecht, Holland – Tivoli Apr 10 – Utrecht, Holland – Tivoli Apr 11 – Ostende, Belgium – Kursaal Apr 12 – Antwerp, Belgium – De Roma Apr 20 – Stockholm, Sweden – Silja Rock May 04 – Ingelmunster, Belgium – Labadoux Festival May 20 – Raalte, Netherlands – Ribs & Blues Festival Sep 20 – Londonderry, Ireland – Millennium Forum Sep 21 – Belfast, Ireland – Waterfront Hall Sep 22 – Cork, Ireland – Opera House Sep 24 – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street Sep 25 – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street Oct 04 – Stoke, UK – Victoria Hall Oct 05 – Llandudno, UK – Venue Cymru Oct 06 – Halifax, UK – Victoria Hall Oct 08 – Buxton, UK – Opera House Oct 09 – Wolverhampton, UK – Univ. of Wolverhampton Oct 11 – Aberdeen, UK – Music Hall Oct 12 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall Oct 13 – Stockton, UK – Globe Oct 15 – Scarborough, UK – Spa Grand Hall Oct 16 – Hull, UK – City Hall Oct 18 – Eastbourne, UK – Congress Theatre Oct 19 – Northampton, UK – Royal & Derngate Oct 20 – Leicester, UK – DeMontfort Hall Oct 21 – Cambridge, UK – Corn Exchange Oct 23 – Weymouth, UK – Pavilion Oct 24 – Truro, UK – Hall For Cornwall Oct 25 – Torquay, UK – Princess Theatre Oct 26 – Portsmouth, UK – Guildhall Oct 28 – Guildford, UK – G Live Oct 29 – Bath, UK – Forum Oct 30 – Basingstoke, UK – Anvil Oct 31 – Croydon, UK – Fairfield Halls Nov 01 – Stevenage, UK – Leisure Centre Nov 03 – Warwick, UK – Butterworth, Hall Nov 04 – Canterbury, UK – Marlowe Theatre Nov 13 – Odense, Denmark – Posten Nov 14 – Randers, Denmark – Værket Nov 15 – Helsingør , Denmark – Kulturværfte Nov 17 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio Nov 26 – Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus Nov 27 – Uppsala, Sweden, UKK Nov 28 – Malmö, Sweden – Slagthuset – Teatern Nov 30 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Lorensbergsteatern

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10cc? Should be Graham Gouldman’s 10cc. It’s not 10cc without the three other original members. At least Eric Stewart should be in it!

Where is Eric Stewart and why is he not touring with them is there some kind of beef between them.

Yeah, if it’s going to be 10cc, we need Eric Stewart. But such is the concert scene today with a lot of the acts from the ’70s and ’80s. Sometimes you have NO original members!

I wonder if they’ll play “Neanderthal Man”. I still can’t believe how big of a hit that was!

Probably not, because the writers of the song are the “missing” persons Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme!

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10cc to Embark on First U.S. Tour in Over Three Decades

10cc 's pending Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour will bring the '70s hitmakers to America for the first time in more than three decades.

They're best known for "I'm Not In Love," a single composed by Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart which reached No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 1 in the U.K. in 1975. 10cc hit the American Top 5 again in 1976 with "The Things We Do for Love," which was also composed by Gouldman and Stewart.

Gouldman continues to lead the group. Shows kick off in July at Montclair, N.J., with stops in New York City, St. Louis, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco to follow through August. Meet-and-greet packages and VIP tickets will be available during pre-sale; visit 10cc.world to find out more. A complete list of announced dates is below.

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10cc emerged from the '70s boasting four consecutive gold-selling U.K. albums beginning with 1974's Sheet Music , but saw their momentum slow in the new decade. The band went dormant from 1983 through the '90s. But their songs lived on: "I'm Not In Love" featured prominently in the chart-topping soundtrack to 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy . "Dreadlock Holiday," a U.K. chart-topping hit from 1978, was also featured in 2010's The Social Network .

10cc built that kind of lasting appeal with timeless songs, Gouldman argues. "They don't seem to date," he said in an official release. "We never followed any trend; we simply wrote for our own pleasure. The fact that the songs are being played as often on the radio as they ever were shows how true that is."

Gouldman is the only founding member to appear on every 10cc project, but the current lineup includes two other legacy members: Drummer Paul Burgess initially came on board in 1973 as a touring member before officially joining in time for 1977's Deceptive Bends , home to "The Things We Do For Love." Guitarist Rick Finn arrived shortly thereafter, performing on 10cc's 1977 concert recording Live and Let Live .

10cc's Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits 2024 U.S. Tour Dates:

July 24: Montclair, NJ @ Welmont Theatre July 25: New York, NY @ Sony Hall July 26: Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre July 27: Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre July 29: Ocean City, NJ @ Ocean City Music Pier July 30: Kent, OH @ Kent Stage Aug. 1: St. Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre Aug. 2: Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater Aug. 3: St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant Aug. 4: Cincinnati, OH @ Ludlow Garage Aug. 5: Indianapolis, IN @ Toby Theater at Newfields Aug. 6: Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville Aug. 8: Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre Aug. 9: San Antonio, TX @ Empire Theatre Aug. 10: Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater Aug. 12: Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater Aug. 15: Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway Aug. 17: San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts

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10cc Announces First US Tour in Over 30 Years in Summer 2024

by Em Casalena March 12, 2024, 11:39 am

British soft rock icons 10cc are crossing the pond and touring in the US for the first time in over three decades! This is a huge deal for fans of the band, who have just celebrated over 50 years together. 10cc has been on a major tour since 2022, known as The Ultimate Hits Tour, which has brought them across the UK and Europe. Now, US fans can see the band in select cities this summer.

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The next stop on the 10cc 2024 Tour is on March 12 in Liverpool, United Kingdom at the Philharmonic Hall. The tour is expected to end on November 30 in Gothenburg, Sweden at Lorensbergsteatern. The first US tour date will be July 24 in Montclair, New Jersey at Welmont Theatre and the last US date will be August 17 in San Francisco, California at the Palace of Fine Arts.

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Ready to get your tickets to see 10cc live? You’ve got a few options. Live Nation/ Ticketmaster is hosting a presale event (use the code “KEY”!) on March 14 at 10:00 am local.

General on-sale will start on March 15 at 10:00 am local. International fans can get down on tickets through Viagogo for the best deals. Everyone else might have some luck using Stubhub . Stubhub is our top pick for secondary ticketing platforms because it’s backed by the FanProtect Guarantee and also tends to have tickets available for sold-out shows. If you miss the presale event on Ticketmaster, Stubhub is the way to go!

Demand for the long-overdue US tour dates is high and tickets won’t last long. Gets yours quickly , before they sell out!

10cc 2024 Tour Dates (Plus New US Dates)

March 12 – Liverpool, UK – Philharmonic Hall

March 13 – Dumfries, UK – Easterbrook Hall

March 14 – Perth, UK – Concert Hall

March 15 – Glasgow, UK – Royal Concert Hall

March 16 – Sheffield, UK – City Hall

March 18 – Nottingham, UK – Royal Concert Hall

March 19 – Manchester, UK – Bridgewater Hall

March 20 – Reading, UK – Hexagon

March 21 – Bournemouth, UK – Pavilion

March 22 – Oxford, UK – New Theatre

March 23 – Swansea, UK – Swansea Arena

March 25 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall

March 26 – Southend, UK – Cliffs Pavilion

March 27 – Cardiff, UK – St Davids Hall

April 09 – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli

April 10 – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli

April 11 – Ostende, BE – Kursaal

April 12 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma

April 20 – Stockholm-Helsinki, SE – Silja Rock

May 4 – Ingelmunster, BE – Labadoux Festival

May 20 – Raalte, NL – Ribs & Blues Festival

July 24 – Montclair, NJ – Welmont Theatre (NEW!)

July 25 – New York, NY – Sony Hall (NEW!)

July 26 – Patchogue, NY – Patchogue Theatre (NEW!)

July 27 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre (NEW!)

July 29 – Ocean City, NJ – Ocean City Music Pier (NEW!)

July 30 – Kent, OH – Kent Stage (NEW!)

August 1 – St Charles, IL – The Arcada Theatre (NEW!)

August 2 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater (NEW!)

August 3 – St Louis, MO – The Pageant (NEW!)

August 4 – Cincinnati, OH – Ludlow Garage (NEW!)

August 5 – Indianapolis, IN – Toby Theater at Newfields (NEW!)

August 6 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville (NEW!)

August 8 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre (NEW!)

August 9 – San Antonio, TX – Empire Theatre (NEW!)

August 10 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theater (NEW!)

August 12 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater (NEW!)

August 15 – Los Angeles, CA – The United Theater on Broadway (NEW!)

August 17 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts (NEW!)

September 20 – Derry/Londonderry, IE – Millennium Forum

September 21 – Belfast, IE – Waterfront Hall

September 22 – Cork, IE – Opera house

September 24 – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street

September 25 – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street

November 13 – Odense, DK – Posten

November 14 – Randers, DK – Værket

November 15 – Helsingør, DK – Kulturværfte

November 17 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio

November 26 – Stockholm, SE – Cirkus

November 27 – Uppsala, SE – UKK

November 28 – Malmö, SE – Slagthuset – Teatern

November 30 – Gothenburg, SE – Lorensbergsteatern

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10cc Announce First US Tour In Over 30 Years

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The British band 10cc started in 1972, and they released nine richly produced albums in quick succession before breaking up in 1983. The band scored three chart-topping hits in the UK, and one of those songs, the spaced-out and vaguely unsettling pop masterpiece “I’m Not In Love,” was also a huge US hit. 10cc reunited in the ’90s and released a few more albums, and a version of the band has been intermittently active since then. Now, 10cc are getting ready to tour North America for the first time in more than 30 years.

It should be noted that the current version of 10cc only features one original member, singer and multi-instrumentalist Graham Gouldman. (Gouldman co-wrote all of 10cc’s big hits, and he also wrote hits for the Yardbirds, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, and others.) This touring version of 10cc also has drummer Paul Burgess, who’s been a touring member of the band since 1973, and guitarist Rick Fenn, who joined up in 1976. Check out the American dates for 10cc’s Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour below.

TOUR DATES: 7/24 – Montclair, NJ @ Welmont Theatre 7/25 – New York, NY @ Sony Hall 7/26 – Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre 7/27 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre 7/29 – Ocean City, NJ @ Ocean City Music Pier 7/30 – Kent, OH @ Kent Stage 8/01 – St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre 8/02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater 8/03 – St Louis, MO @ The Pageant 8/04 – Cincinnati, OH @ Ludlow Garage 8/05 – Indianapolis, IN @ Toby Theater at Newfields 8/06 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville 8/08 – Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre 8/09 – San Antonio, TX @ Empire Theatre 8/10 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater 8/12 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater 8/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway 8/17 – San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts

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10cc had a run of five top ten albums in the 1970s that made them pop superstars.

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It's been a while since they released new music, but 10cc are still going today with regular live tours.

They're led by founding member Graham Gouldman, who formed the group 50 years ago.

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But do you know how they got their name? And have you kept track of all the lineup changes over the years?

Do you know the name of 10ccs very biggest and best songs? Here's everything you need to know about 10cc as they enter Gold 's digital Hall of Fame.

When did 10cc form and who was in their original lineup?

While they broke through in the 1970s, 10cc had their roots in the 1960s and even earlier.

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme knew each other as boys in Stockport, England, while Godley and Graham Gouldman went to the same secondary school and played their first music together at the local Jewish Lad's Brigade.

1n 1964, Gouldman's band The Whirlwinds recorded the Creme-written 'Baby Not Like You' as the flip of their sole single 'Look At Me'.

That band became The Mockingbirds, with Godley joining the group on drums, but they fizzled out after a couple of years and clutch of flop singles.

The Whirlwinds - Baby Not Like You - 1964 45rpm

Godley and Creme reunited and recorded as The Yellow Bellow Room Boom. They then became Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon, with both Gouldman and then-guitarist of Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders Eric Stewart joining in on the sessions.

Gouldman also went on to join The Mindbenders and wrote a couple of their singles, before they split.

The future 10cc would continue to intermingle in the 1960s, appearing on each other's recordings, and soon all would be regularly recording at Strawberry Studios, which had been formed by Stewart with Peter Tattersall.

The foursome recorded oodles of music together and sometimes with other people, which was released as all sorts of strange semi-fictional bands towards the end of the decade (Crazy Elephant, Fighter Squadron and Silver Fleet).

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"We did a lot of tracks in a very short time – it was really like a machine," Godley told Zigzag in 1975. "We used to do the voices, everything – it saved 'em money. We even did the female backing vocals."

Gouldman then left the duo to work as a staff songwriter in New York, while Stewart, Godley and Creme continued to collaborate, eventually putting out an album Thinks: School Stinks , which even featured Gouldman on bass on one track.

The original foursome of continued to write for, play on and produce music for other artists, but wanted to do their own thing properly.

They were rejected by Apple, but the founding foursome of Lol Creme, Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley were signed by Jonathan King on the strength of 'Donna', their soon-to-be first single as 10cc.

How did 10cc get their name?

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10cc means 10 cubic centimetres – which is the same as 10ml. Bit of an odd bandname, no?

The group got their name from King when he signed them to his UK Records label in July 1972, but where he got it from is open to some dispute.

King claimed that the unusual bandname came from a dream where he was standing in front of the Hammersmith Odeon in London, with a sign reading "10cc The Best Band in the World".

The other version of the story is a bit more... well, let's not beat around the bush and just get to the issue at hand: The average volume of semen is 1.5 to 5.0ml (or 1.5-5cc) per ejaculation.

According to the legend, King wanted to name the group after this volume but got his numbers wrong, because 10cc is actually double that.

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Another suggestion was that the excessive 10cc signifies the sexual prowess and virility of the goop group.

King has denied the suggestion: "I went to sleep that night and had this dream that a band of mine on my label made number one on the album and singles charts simultaneously in America, and the band was 10cc.

"Everybody then decided that this was apparently meant to be the amount of an average male ejaculation. Which was absolutely far from the truth.

"There’s a lot of apocryphal stories about names, and unfortunately, most of them are much more amusing than the ugly reality, which in this case is that the name came to me in a dream."

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Back in 1973 soon after the band formed, Creme backed this up, telling Rolling Stone that King "claimed it came to him in a dream three times so it had to have some significance".

In the very same interview, Gouldman noted (wrongly) as an aside that "9cc is the average ejaculation" – probably the first time the theory was put out there.

And Creme later told Pulse in 1988: "We were racking our brains for a suitable name, one that really captured our style and image.

"Jonathan King, who'd signed us to his UK label, said, '10cc - because it's the average amount of semen ejaculated by a healthy male!' Well, naturally, we thought it was perfect."

What are 10cc's most famous songs (and albums)?

10cc - I'm Not In Love

At the core of the original 10cc were two separate songwriting teams: the pop-heavy duo of Stewart and Goldman and the more artsy Godley and Creme.

Godley and Creme left the group in 1976 (more on that later), but through its lineup changes, 10cc released 11 studio albums, including a run of five top 10 records in 1970s: Sheet Music, The Original Soundtrack, How Dare You!, Deceptive Bends and Deceptive Bends.

Their biggest songs are:

• Rubber Bullets
• The Dean and I
• The Wall Street Shuffle
• Life Is a Minestrone
• I'm Not in Love
• Art for Art's Sake
• I'm Mandy, Fly Me
• The Things We Do for Love
• Good Morning Judge
• Dreadlock Holiday

Why did 10cc split up?

10cc - Good Morning Judge

It sounds like a cliché, but the thing that first drove a wedge between the members of 10cc genuinely was creative differences.

As the group scored more and more success, there was a split between the pop (Stewart & Goldman) and art (Godley & Creme).

Godley and Creme thought things were getting a bit stale in 10cc and drifted off to record their triple album Consequences , and in the process left the group.

"Unfortunately, the band wasn't democratic or smart enough at that time to allow us the freedom to go ahead and do this project and we were placed in the unfortunate position of having to leave to do it," Godley told Uncut in 1997.

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Stewart told BBC Radio Wales of the split: "I was sorry to see them go. But we certainly did fall out at the time.

"I thought they were crazy. They were just walking away from something so big and successful. We'd had great success around the world and I thought we were just breaking in a very, very big way."

10cc continued without Godley and Creme, who went on to do their own thing (music and pop video production), shuffling the lineup as the years went on.

Paul Burgess had been a touring member of the band since 1973, and he joined as a permanent member in 1976.

10cc decided to call it a day in 1983 as the hits dried up. Gouldman worked with the Ramones and went on to form Common Knowledge (later Wax) with Andrew Gold, while Stewart worked with the likes of Paul McCartney and Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA .

What pop videos did Godley & Creme produce?

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Not content with their career as popstars in 10cc, and later as the experimental rock duo Godley & Creme, the pair decided to move into pop music video production, just as the medium exploded in the 1980s.

They started with their own clips for 'Englishman in New York' and 'Wide Boy', before lending their skills to other artists, racking up over 50 credits before the end of the decade, including their old 10cc pals, showing that any bad feeling had surely eased.

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Among their most enduring music videos were:

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• Asia – Heat of the Momen
• Joan Armatrading – The Weakness in Me
• Elton John – Kiss the Bride
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• The Police – Every Breath You Take
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes
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• Artists United Against Apartheid – Sun City (with Jonathan Demme and Hart Perry)
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• Eric Clapton – Forever Man
• Huey Lewis and the News – Hip to Be Square
• Lou Reed – No Money Down
• Patti LaBelle – Oh, People
• Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush – Don't Give Up
• The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me '86
• Ultravox – All Fall Down
• George Harrison – When We Was Fab

What songs did Graham Gouldman write for other artists before 10cc formed?

The Yardbirds - "Heart Full Of Soul" (1965)

Godley & Creme weren't the only members of 10cc to score some serious success outside the band.

Before 10cc even launched, Graham Gouldman scored some major hits writing songs for other artists, putting his stamp on the 1960s.

Between 1965 and 1967 he wrote 'For Your Love', 'Heart Full of Soul' and 'Evil Hearted You' for The Yardbirds, and 'Look Through Any Window' (a co-write with Charles Silverman) and 'Bus Stop' for The Hollies.

His other hits included, 'Listen People', 'No Milk Today' and 'East West' for Herman's Hermits, 'Pamela, Pamela' and 'The Impossible Years' for Wayne Fontana, 'Behind the Door' for St. Louis Union and 'Tallyman' for Jeff Beck .

When did 10cc reform and who is in their current lineup?

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After the success of 1987 compilation Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme which covered both groups, Goldman and Stewart reconvened as 10cc in 1991 to record ...Meanwhile, and they (sort of) got back together with Godley and Creme.

All the songs on the comeback album were Godley/Stewart numbers (apart from closer 'Don't Break the Promises' which had a co-write credit for Paul McCartney), and Godley and Creme were shipped in for a short while to do their bits.

Godley sung lead on 'The Stars Didn't Show' and backing vocals on a couple of tracks, and Creme did backing vocals on six songs, and that was it.

The album flopped and the newly-reformed 10cc were dropped by Polydor.

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Gouldman and Stewart recorded follow up Mirror Mirror for Japanese label Avex in 1995, but Stewart left the group after an accompanying tour.

That left Gouldman as the sole original member of 10cc, who still tours under the band's name today.

Godley and Gouldman enjoyed a brief reunion in the mid-00s, putting out the GG/06 EP in 2006.

There have been countless people in the 10cc lineup in the past few decades, and one definitely worth mentioning is Mick Wilson, who sang lead and backing vocals as well as playing rhythm guitar from 1999 to 2017, before he was replaced out in front by Iain Hornal.

The current 10cc lineup features Gary Gouldman with Paul Burgess, Rick Fenn, Keith Hayman and Iain Hornal .

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10cc, London Palladium review - still firing rubber bullets 50 years on | reviews, news & interviews

10cc, london palladium review - still firing rubber bullets 50 years on, graham gouldman is the last man standing in his own excellent tribute band.

What a remarkable band 10cc were. For most of the 1970s they made highly unusual pop that careered without a care between bubblegum and prog. Their ease migrating across style lines from Pythonesque japes to dense seriosity lay in the personnel: four bandleaders who all brought a sensibility to a democratic collective. The wackier half of the band departed in 1976, not long after their most soaring hit, written by the more mainstream half. Godley and Creme, seemingly, were not in love with Stewart and Gouldman, whose next big hit was “The Things We Do For Love”.

Their first hit – a falsetto doo-wop pastiche called “Donna” – was in 1972. Fifty years on the band still exists, and is out on tour playing all the hits and more. To be strictly mathematical it’s really 2.5cc these days. Graham Gouldman, 76 next month, is the last frontman standing. He’s become one of the “old men of rock ‘n’ roll” fondly imagined by 10cc in their twenties in “Old Wild Men”. He does his bit centre stage like an affable professor (retd) on the Caribbean cruise lecture circuit. He performs noodling bass solos, sings his bits in a growling baritone and modestly summons up the good old days.

Not that he’s surrounded by fresh-faced newbies. Paul Burgess on drums and Rick Fenn on lead guitar have been associated with the band since the 1970s - the former wears the luxuriant mane of the period by way of authenticating rubber stamp. (Much of the audience was of a similar vintage.)

The show which reached the London Palladium last night is a moreish oddity. The songs are gorgeous, the musicianship immaculate, the stagecraft polished. Yet there is a nagging sense that 10cc have morphed into their own tribute act, a classic car with an engine full of replacement parts. Other bands have patched holes in an original line-up and carried on regardless – Fleetwood Mac, serially; Queen, flagrantly. The difference with 10cc is everyone’s still alive and, seemingly, on speakers. Kevin Godley, who left with Lol Creme to make videos, even pops up singing “Somewhere in Hollywood” on an arty black and white back projection.

There is no attempt to deny that the departed members left huge shoes to fill. When Iain Hornal, much the youngest member of the current cohort, told a story about the composition of "Life Is a Minestrone", it was like listening to an eager young museum tour guide. He had a busy time of it. As well as playing a lot of instruments (although not as many as Keith Hayman on various keyboards and guitars), Hornal has two jobs in 10cc: tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be Lol Creme and Eric Stewart. With a sweet and soaring voice he pulls off the double mimicry with great skill.

It’s not easy reproducing authentic 10cc. Songs like “Feel the Benefit” and “The Second Sitting for the Last Supper” perform weird and sudden handbrake turns. “Say the Word”, Hornal’s own pastiche of the band composed with Gouldman, ended with an off-brand crashing chord, where the old songs so often concluded elliptically. “I’m Mandy Fly Me”, an elusive enigma of a love song, faded into silence and darkness.

From near the top of a show that contained 20 songs in all, the jagged “Art for Art’s Sake” and the jiving “The Dean and I” came up absolutely box fresh. When “I’m Not In Love” eventually arrived, lushly harmonised, the band were backlit so that the absence of 7.5cc was less of an issue. Instead we had to watch the screen behind featuring two young models in what looked like a slo-mo shampoo ad. Then came “Dreadlock Holiday”, the mock-reggae megahit which has a pub band vibe about it these days. For the encore, “Donna” was rendered a cappella like a barber shop quartet, before a climactic wig-out with “Rubber Bullets”. They're not all there, but 10cc's songbook, full of fun and love and rage, remains blessedly the same. 

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YouTube videos of I’m Not In Love, encompassing those by the current 10cc band, have been viewed more that 30 million times.

The things we do for love was the lead track for ricky gervais’s after life series 3 (2022) on netflix..

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I’m Not In Love is lead track on the blockbuster Disney film Guardians of the Galaxy (2015), which spawned a No 1 album in the US.

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English singer-songwriter and musician Graham Gouldman rose to early fame as a member of 1960s band The Mockingbirds. But by the time the group disbanded in 1966, Graham’s ability as a songsmith had moved centre stage, with hits for Wayne Fontana, Herman’s Hermits, The Yardbirds, The Hollies and Jeff Beck.

After a spell song-writing in the United States, he returned to the UK and co-founded 10cc in 1972, co-writing a string of hits such as Rubber Bullets, I’m Not In Love, The Things We Do for Love and Dreadlock Holiday.

Graham’s status as one of the world’s leading songwriters was acknowledged in 2014 with his induction into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame – an arm of America’s National Academy of Music. Fellow inductees include Noel Coward, Burt Bacharach, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Elton John and Sting.

While fronting the current 10cc live band, Graham also has a four-piece semi-acoustic band – Heart Full of Songs – to perform material from across his song-writing career, including the classic hits, film soundtracks and songs from his solo albums.

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It is only between 10cc’s sell-out, bi-annual UK tours that the band’s co-founder Graham Gouldman is able to fully indulge his Heart Full of Songs project and take it on tour.

As a result, the semi-acoustic four-piece –performing a broad spread of Graham’s song-writing catalogue, including chart hits for 10cc, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and his time in Wax with Andrew Gold.

Graham is one of the founding members of the English rock band 10cc, which was formed in 1972. He played multiple roles in the band, including bassist, guitarist, and vocalist. Gouldman was also the primary songwriter for many of the band's biggest hits, such as "I'm Not in Love," "The Wall Street Shuffle," and "Dreadlock Holiday."

10cc had great commercial success throughout the 1970s, selling millions of records worldwide and earning critical acclaim for their unique blend of rock, pop, and experimental music.

Graham continues to perform live with 10cc performing all of the bands greatest hits, along with some exemplary musicians.

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10cc Announces First US Tour in Over 30 Years

The post 10cc Announces First US Tour in Over 30 Years appeared first on Consequence .

British rock band 10cc will return this year for their first US tour in over three decades.

The US tour announcement follows 10cc’s current UK/Europe leg of their “Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour,” which they began 2022. Now, they’ll embark on the “Ultimate, Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour” in the United States, kicking off in Montclair, New Jersey on July 24th. They’ll continue the coast-to-coast trek through the end of July and August, hitting cities like New York, Milwaukee, Nashville, Austin, and Los Angeles. The tour ends with a date in San Francisco on August 17th. See the full list of tour dates below.

Tickets for 10cc’s 2024 tour will first be available via a Live Nation pre-sale (use code KEY ), which opens on Thursday, March 14th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Tickets will then go on-sale for the general public on Friday, March 15th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster . Fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. You can also get tickets to 10cc’s international tour dates on viagogo .

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10cc have been regularly reuniting for European tours throughout the last decade, but this new tour marks the art rock group’s first stretch of shows in the United States since 1978. Revisit Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin’s 2022 cover of 10cc’s “The Things We Do For Love” for their  Hanukkah Sessions  cover series.

10cc Tour Dates: 03/12 — Liverpool, UK @ Philharmonic Hall 03/13 — Dumfries, UK @ Easterbrook Hall 03/14 — Perth, UK @ Concert Hall 03/15 — Glasgow, UK @ Royal Concert Hall 03/16 — Sheffield, UK @ City Hall 03/18 — Nottingham, UK @ Royal Concert Hall 03/19 — Manchester, UK @ Bridgewater Hall 03/20 — Reading, UK @ Hexagon 03/21 — Bournemouth, UK @ Pavilion 03/22 — Oxford, UK @ New Theatre 03/23 — Swansea, UK @ Swansea Arena 03/25 — London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall 03/26 — Southend, UK @ Cliffs Pavilion 03/27 — Cardiff, UK @ St Davids Hall 04/09 — Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli 04/10 — Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli 04/11 — Ostende, BE @ Kursaal 04/12 — Antwerp, BE @ De Roma 04/20 — Stockholm-Helsinki, SE @ Silja Rock 05/04 — Ingelmunster, BE @ Labadoux Festival 05/20 — Raalte, NL @ Ribs & Blues Festival 07/24 — Montclair, NJ @ Welmont Theatre 07/25 — New York, NY @ Sony Hall 07/26 — Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre 07/27 — Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre 07/29 — Ocean City, NJ @ Ocean City Music Pier 07/30 — Kent, OH @ Kent Stage 08/01 — St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre 08/02 — Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater 08/03 — St Louis, MO @ The Pageant 08/04 — Cincinnati, OH @ Ludlow Garage 08/05 — Indianapolis, IN @ Toby Theater at Newfields 08/06 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville 08/08 — Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre 08/09 — San Antonio, TX @ Empire Theatre 08/10 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater 08/12 — Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater 08/15 — Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway 08/17 — San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts 09/20 — Derry/Londonderry, IE @ Millennium Forum 09/21 — Belfast, IE @ Waterfront Hall 09/22 — Cork, IE @ Opera house 09/24 — Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street 09/25 — Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street 11/13 — Odense, DK @ Posten 11/14 — Randers, DK @ Værket 11/15 — Helsingør, DK @ Kulturværfte 11/17 — Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio 11/26 — Stockholm, SE @ Cirkus 11/27 — Uppsala, SE @ UKK 11/28 — Malmö, SE @ Slagthuset – Teatern 11/30 — Gothenburg, SE @ Lorensbergsteatern

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List of 10cc band members

10cc are an English art rock band from Stockport . Formed in July 1972, the group originally featured keyboardist/guitarist Eric Stewart , bassist/guitarist Graham Gouldman , keyboardist/guitarist Lol Creme and drummer Kevin Godley , all of whom shared vocal duties. Gouldman is the only remaining original member in the band's current lineup, which also includes drummer Paul Burgess (who originally joined as a touring member in 1973, and later full-time in 1976), guitarist Rick Fenn (who first joined in 1976), keyboardist and guitarist Keith Hayman (from 2007 to 2011, and since 2016), and lead vocalist, guitarist and percussionist Iain Hornal (a substitute member since 2013, official since 2017).

10cc were formed in July 1972 by Eric Stewart , Graham Gouldman , Lol Creme and Kevin Godley . The band released their self-titled debut album in 1973 and toured with second drummer Paul Burgess , leaving Godley free to share live vocal duties. After three more albums – Sheet Music , The Original Soundtrack and How Dare You! – both Godley and Creme left in November 1976, at which point Burgess became an official member. The remaining trio recorded Deceptive Bends , after which guitarist Rick Fenn , keyboardist Tony O'Malley and drummer Stuart Tosh were added in May 1977. By May the next year, O'Malley had been replaced by Duncan Mackay .

By the summer of 1981, following the release of Bloody Tourists and Look Hear? , Mackay had left 10cc. He was replaced for the recording of Ten Out of 10 by Vic Emerson . Tosh left around the same time. In summer 1982, Burgess left 10cc when he temporarily toured with Jethro Tull , following the departure of Gerry Conway . His absence meant he was not present for the recording of Windows in the Jungle , for which Tosh returned to the group. For the tour in promotion of the album, Tosh was joined by Jamie Lane. By the end of the year, the group had disbanded. Both Stewart and Gouldman subsequently worked in record production.

In 1991, Stewart and Gouldman reunited with Lol Creme and Kevin Godley to record ...Meanwhile . The pair returned to touring in 1993, with Rick Fenn and Stuart Tosh back in the lineup, alongside new keyboardist Stephen Pigott and drummer Gary Wallis . During the early months of 1995, the band toured with Alan Park and Geoff Dunn in place of Pigott and Wallis, respectively. Shortly after the release of Mirror Mirror in the summer, the group disbanded. According to Stewart, he and Gouldman had already parted ways by the time the album came out.

Gouldman reformed 10cc as a touring-only band in 1999, with Fenn and former drummer Paul Burgess returning, alongside new members Mick Wilson on vocals, percussion and guitar, and Mike Stevens on keyboards, saxophone, bass and guitar. Shortly after the tour which spawned live album Clever Clogs , Stevens left to become Take That 's musical director, at which point Keith Hayman took over on keyboards. Stevens returned in 2011, before Hayman returned again in 2016. In December 2017, Wilson was replaced by Iain Hornal, who had previously toured with the band and with Stevens in Jeff Lynne's ELO . Though dates in 2018 featured singer Paul Canning.

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GRAHAM GOULDMAN

bass guitars, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals

That loyal little song-bug has stood him in good stead through decades of distinction as one of the UK’s most productive and imaginative hitmakers. We’re talking very much in the present and future tenses, too, since he continues to write with contemporary hitmakers and see his classics renewing themselves constantly, as with the news that ‘For Your Love’ and ‘Heart Full Of Soul’, two of the timeless hits he wrote for the Yardbirds, have lately been part of live sets by the White Stripes. The headlines of Graham’s career may always be his early compositions for the scenesters of the ’60s, his crucial role in the super-intelligent ’70s pop of 10cc, and his livewire combination with Andrew Gold in Wax during the ’80s.

To begin at the end, let’s talk about the motivation behind Graham’s new road route. Approached to do an Australian concert for the Lifeline charity in 2003, he couldn’t resist something more expansive. “We thought ‘it’s quite a long way, why don’t we do something else while we’re down there?’ And it turned into a four-week tour.” It’s the latest example of the old “once a performer..” rule, as Graham readily admits. “Around the late ’90s, I realised I missed playing on the road, and I wanted to do it. I didn’t want to call it 10cc, because it wasn’t. It was something I had a hankering to do more for the pleasure of it, I didn’t think it was ever going to be a great money-spinner. So we went out, I think it was ‘Graham Gouldman and Friends.'” With the involvement of Rick Fenn and Paul Burgess, both veterans of 10cc studio and roadwork, as well as the talented Mick Wilson and Mike Stevens, the show evolved into ‘Graham Gouldman Celebrates 30 Years of 10cc’ for a 2002 tour, then again into ’10cc featuring Graham Gouldman and friends.’

Spin back 40 years and you find just the same motivation in the Manchester teenager: to be at the centre of music. Not necessarily the front, but certainly the centre. “I always wanted to be in a band,” he says. “I never wanted to be a frontman, because I haven’t got the look or the personality, (tell that to his mum) but I loved the gang mentality. There’s a humour that musicians have that’s unlike anybody else’s, and you can’t have it if you’re on your own. To be with a bunch of like-minded people, it’s like any other fraternity. I don’t know about you, I think musicians are the best people.”

So it was, after an initial whim to be a drummer, that an 11-year-old Mancunian took possession of a simple acoustic guitar as a gift from a cousin returning from Spain and became hooked in an instant. Early bands included the High Spots, the Crevattes, the Planets and, a little more permanently, the Whirlwinds, who scaled the heights of becoming the house band at the local youth club, the Jewish Lads Brigade. It was around this time that Gouldman met Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, who were in another outfit called the Sabres. They began to play together for fun, lapping up the chance to learn at close quarters from visiting stars such as Manfred Mann and local heroes the Hollies as well as the Beatles and Stones. Once the Liverpool and Manchester waves had crashed the shore, the Whirlwinds’ very birthplace helped land them a record deal with HMV.

But by 1964, around the time their first single (a cover of Buddy Holly’s ‘Look At Me’) was singularly failing to become a hit, Graham’s musical horizons were being seriously expanded, and he broke up the Whirlwinds to form the Mockingbirds, who included Godley on drums. Then begins the most schizophrenic period of his career. Despite a contract with EMI’s Columbia label and a regular spot as the warm-up band at recordings of the fledgling ‘Top Of The Pops’ in Manchester, the band steadfastly failed to make it big. “That was weird. One week the Yardbirds were on doing ‘For Your Love,’ and we were the warm-up. But WE didn’t do it!” Graham wrote ‘For Your Love’ at the age of just 18. With the help of Herman’s Hermits manager and lifelong associate Harvey Lisberg, it reached the Yardbirds, and in March 1965, in the week the Rolling Stones ruled the charts with ‘The Last Time’, their version debuted on the UK bestsellers, climbing to No.3.

Even better was to come that summer, when the follow-up ‘Heart Full Of Soul’, another brilliant slice of cool pop from the teenage Gouldman, went to No.2, held off the top only by the Hollies’ ‘I’m Alive’ and the Byrds’ ‘Mr.Tambourine Man’. In October came a third straight Yardbirds bullseye with ‘Evil Hearted You’, and even by then, Gouldman had branched out by penning with a No.4 smash for the Hollies, ‘Look Through Any Window’.

The reputation of the previously unknown songwriter was signed and sealed right there in little more than six months, in a golden run that any modern-day teen-pop hitmaker would be proud of. Enhancing it further, and giving him an enviable transatlantic cach, was the fact that ‘For Your Love’ soon climbed to No.6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and ‘Heart Full Of Soul’ to No.9. “That whole period was strange,” he admits. “I wanted the band I had to have hits, but looking back on it, I gave the cream of the songs away. What would you do, would you have a song with the Mockingbirds, or the Hollies? The Mockingbirds’ life was a little short lived, and after that I thought ‘maybe I’ll just write songs.’ Then my dream came true, pretty much.” 1966 is a year remembered with fondness by many Brits, but Gouldman had more reason than most, as an outrageous sequence for the sharp-penned creator of Britpop classics continued. By now he had the confidence and nous to have augmented his compositional skills with a knack for sparkling, evocative lyrical vignettes. The singles-buying public lapped them up, in the form of the pocket melodramas ‘Bus Stop’ by the Hollies (No.5 in July, and the same peak in the US) and ‘No Milk Today’ by Herman’s Hermits (No.7 in November).

The Mockingbirds continued to beat their wings to little wider public response during 1965, with a single on Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate label. Next stop was Decca, but success continued to elude Graham as a band member, despite all his achievements as a writer, which also embraced a top three US hit with ‘Listen People’ for Herman’s Hermits, included in the film ‘When The Boys Meet The Girls’ starring Connie Francis. Gouldman had also released his first solo single, ‘Stop Stop Stop (Or Honey I’ll Be Gone)’, for Decca in early 1966, but his “double life” was to continue. While that too missed the charts, he would chalk up more sales glory by writing ‘Pamela Pamela’ for Wayne Fontana and ‘East West’ for Herman and co. By ’67, he was signed as a writer to the American publisher Robbins Music, collecting further covers by such artists as Jeff Beck, the Shadows, Cher and PJ Proby. He also started work, with future Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, on what would become the album ‘The Graham Gouldman Thing’ for RCA. For reasons you mostly know about, it was an album he wouldn’t follow up as a solo artist for 32 years!

The palace of pop varieties good, bad and weird that would be Graham’s lot in the period 1969-1972 have been newly compiled on the Castle album ‘Strawberry Bubblegum’. That records his writing and recording at what became the renowned Strawberry Studios, in Stockport, near Manchester, for New York’s famous Kasenetz-Katz team on such projects as the later incarnations of such erstwhile chart creations as Ohio Express and Crazy Elephant, as well as such dubious songwriting delights as ‘Susan’s Tuba’ by Freddie and the Dreamers. “That was supposed to be a spoof on bubblegum,” laughs Gouldman, “but it was a big hit in France. It was like in ‘The Producers”where did we go right?!'” Those sessions were a veritable mixed bag, but they were crucial in crystallising the combination of talents that would soon become one of British pop’s most inventive groups. Old friends Kevin Godley and Lol Creme plus Eric Stewart, late of the Mindbenders, all took part, and indeed while Gouldman was in New York, those three scored an unlikely 1970 smash as Hotlegs, ‘Neanderthal Man’. Graham returned home to join his friends for a Hotlegs tour and recording. They maintained their creative momentum by working at Strawberry with Neil Sedaka and other artists.

But 1972 was the year when suddenly, the sum total of all the wisdom amassed by these four friends made perfect sense. In October that year, now going by the name 10cc, they released their debut single ‘Donna’, a faultless pastiche on 1950s pop that surged to No.2 in the UK, spending a month in the top three. In June 1973, the equally sophisticated but instantly accessible ‘Rubber Bullets’ went all the way to No.1, and when a self-titled debut album arrived that September, it was obvious that 10cc were on their way to becoming one of the most innovative, stimulating groups of the decade. Gouldman now remembers it as a time when musical imagination was allowed to burst into full flower in the pop mainstream. “There was a period between ’72 and ’76 with 10cc when I always thought God was in the band,” he says. “Like, because we did it, it was good. We maintained it for a long time, and I’ve done a lot of things after it, but there was no time like that. Everything came into…confluence, is that the right word?”

A series of hugely acclaimed and equally successful albums ensued, from ‘Sheet Music’ and ‘The Original Soundtrack’ to ‘How Dare You’, ‘Deceptive Bends’ and ‘Bloody Tourists’, in a catalogue that has now sold 30 million worldwide. It also generated a total of 11 top ten hits that of course included the anthemic, timeless ‘I’m Not In Love’, which won two Ivor Novello Awards and has been covered endlessly. The sequence continued beyond 1976, when Godley and Creme left the Mark I line-up, into 1977, when Gouldman and Stewart scored with ‘The Things We Do For Love’ followed by another 10cc No.1, ‘Dreadlock Holiday’.

When Stewart was injured in a car accident, Graham began to take on outside projects such as the title song to the film ‘Sunburn’ and the soundtrack of the animated picture ‘Animalympics’. The ’80s would be a period of typical versatility, ranging from his production of American punk prototypes the Ramones’ ‘Pleasant Dreams’ in ’81 and Gilbert O’Sullivan’s ‘Life and Rhymes’, to his lasting partnership with US singer-songwriter Andrew Gold. Already widely known for his hits of the late ’70s, Gold’s pop sensibility proved a perfect match for Gouldman, and as Wax they enjoyed a major UK hit in ’87 with the hugely enjoyable single ‘Bridge To Your Heart’. They continue to work together. “He’s someone I would always work with,” says Graham. “He’s such a great writer, a genius really. One of those guys who can do everything well.”

The early ’90s brought a reunion with Stewart under the 10cc banner for the album ‘Meanwhile…’ and in more recent years, Gouldman has continued to be hugely demand as a songwriter with EMI Music Publishing. He has written with such various talents as Paul Carrack, Gary Barlow and, most poignantly, Kirsty MacColl, a working partnership cut short by her sad death in 2000. That was also the year Graham teamed with UK indie Dome Records for ‘And Another Thing…’, (the follow-up album, three decades late!), and renewed his love of live performance, leading to the hit-laden live show we mentioned at the beginning. But it’s never just about nostalgia for Graham – not as long as he has a guitar and a pen. Excitingly, he’s recently been writing and recording again, for the first time since 10cc’s heyday, with Kevin Godley.

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Born in Oxford, Rick was plucked for a band called Gentlemen to join 10cc towards the end of 1976, at the launch of the Deceptive Bends album and has been part of the team ever since.

From 1979, he also toured and recorded with Mike Oldfield and with him co-wrote the song Family Man, which become a worldwide hit for Hall & Oates, and won him an ASCAP award for best song in 1984.

In 1985, Rick wrote and recorded his own album Profiles, with Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason. The single from the album, Lie for a Lie – sung by Dave Gilmour and featuring Maggie Reilly – was a hit in the USA.

Over the years he has toured with artistes such a Rick Wakeman, Jack Bruce, Elkie Brooks and Wax (with Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman), played guitar for Tears for Fears, Robin Gibb and Kim Wilde, and recorded with Justin Haywood, Agnetha (ABBA) Marilyn, Cliff Richard, Peter Green and Sniff and the Tears.

From the late 1980s, Rick devoted more of his time to composing, writing scores for TV documentaries, films, dramas and comedies (including series for Hale and Pace and Craig Charles), and feature films such as White of the Eye (1987), which was another collaboration with Nick Mason.

One soundtrack that won him a Gold Clio award in America in 1989 for Best Song, featured Peter Howarth on vocals. He went on to form a writing partnership with Pete, now lead singer with the Hollies, and in 1990 they wrote rock opera Robin, Prince of Sherwood, which toured the UK and spent four months in London’s West End.

When not working with 10cc, Rick spends most of his time at his home in Byron Bay, Australia, where he has also been working and touring with local legend Brian Cadd.

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Paul met Graham Gouldman in the early days of 10cc when recording at Strawberry Studios and when they planned to start touring asked him to join as an auxiliary member, playing drums, percussion and keyboards for what was to become a ten year period. He started recording with them in 1976.

In 1982, he toured throughout America and Canada with Jethro Tull and in 1983 played his final tour with 10cc around the U.K. The ’80s became a tour fest with Camel in (’83/’84), Elkie Brooks (’85), Joan Armatrading (’86), Alvin Stardust (’87), Gloria Gaynor (’88) and Icicle Works (’89).

1990 saw the beginning of a five-year relationship with former Fairport Convention guitarist Jerry Donahue which reached a peak with the Hellecasters. Since then Paul has been working with legendary R&B singer Chris Farlowe, and following a reunion in ’99, with Graham and Rick, is pleased to be keeping the music of 10cc alive.

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A singer-songwriter and session musician, Iain has had the great fortune to work with some of his very favourite bands. When Graham Gouldman called Iain in 2013 to see if he’d like to join the band for a few gigs, the answer was an immediate and unequivocal “yes”. He has since become a permanent fixture, and brings his love for the music to every performance.

Iain has also become a writing partner of Graham’s; their epic collaboration Say The Word is featured in the 10cc set list. The song features as a bonus track on Iain’s latest solo album Fly Away Home, available on CD in the 10cc online store. The album was Iain’s lockdown project and features another co-write with Graham, the heartfelt “I Can’t Tell You”.

Alongside Iain’s solo work and 10cc performances, Iain is also a touring member of Jeff Lynne’s ELO. As a bassist, Iain has toured with Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman, playing and singing the parts of the late Chris Squire. Other live credits include Take That, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Paul Young and The Feeling. Iain has performed at Wembley Stadium, the Grammy awards, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and every single venue mentioned in the chorus of Rock Show by Wings.

Visit Iain's site @ www.iainhornal.com

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Keith Hayman is Sir Cliff Richard’s musical director, arranger and keyboard player, first working with Richard in 1996 as production vocal supervisor/arranger and keyboard player on the hit musical Heathcliff.

Numerous tours, recordings and TV performances have followed. Some of the highlights include The Hyde Park Concerts (1999), An Audience With … Cliff Richard (LWT, 1999), and The Princess Diana Tribute Concert at Althorp Park (1998).

Recent work with Cliff includes the Cliff Richard and The Shadows Final Reunion World Tour 2009/2010 and Richard’s 70th Birthday celebration Bold As Brass concerts at the Royal Albert Hall (2010).

Keith’s first professional engagement was as a guitarist on the musical Big Sin City, which played the West End and toured the country. Since then, he has worked extensively as an arranger, musical director and keyboard player in theatre, television and recording. His West End musical credits include Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Arranger & Musical Director), A Slice Of Saturday Night (Arranger & Musical Director), Robin, Prince Of Sherwood (Musical Director) and Only The Lonely (Musical Director).

Keith began working with 10cc in 2006, replacing Mike Stevens when Mike was otherwise engaged.

Keith has also worked with artistes such as Olivia Newton-John, Russell Watson, Elaine Paige, Brian May, Lamont Dozier and Percy Sledge.

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