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10cc is an English rock band formed in Stockport, Manchester, England in 1972.

History[]

Three of the founding members of 10cc were childhood friends in the Manchester area. As boys, Kevin Godley and Laurence "Lol" Creme knew each other, Graham Gouldman and Godley attended the same secondary school, and their musical enthusiasm led to their playing at the local Jewish Lads' Brigade.[1]

Their first recorded collaboration was in 1964, when Gouldman's band The Whirlwinds recorded the Lol Creme composition "Baby Not Like You", as the B-side of their only single, "Look At Me". The Whirlwinds then changed members and their name, becoming The Mockingbirds. The Mockingbirds recorded five singles in 1965–66 without any success, before disbanding.[2] In June 1967, Godley and Creme reunited and recorded a solitary single under the name "The Yellow Bellow Room Boom".[3] In 1969, Gouldman took them to a Marmalade Records recording session. Giorgio Gomelsky was impressed with Godley's voice and offered them a recording contract. In September 1969, Godley and Creme recorded some basic tracks at Strawberry Studios, with Eric Stewart on guitar and Gouldman on bass. The song, "I'm Beside Myself" was released as a single.[4]

Gomelsky planned to market Godley and Creme as a duo. Plans for an album by Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon faltered, however, when Marmalade ran out of funds. Solo tracks by Godley and Gouldman, however, both involved Stewart and Creme, were released on a 1969 Marmalade Records compilation album, 100 Proof.[5] In March 1968, Gouldman joined Stewart in the Mindbenders, replacing Bob Lang and playing on some tour dates. Gouldman wrote two of the band's last three singles, "Schoolgirl" and "Uncle Joe the Ice Cream Man". Those singles did not chart, and the Mindbenders broke up after a short tour of England in November.[6] Stewart began recording demos of new material at Inner City Studios. In July 1968, Stewart joined Tattersall as a partner in the studio. In October 1968, the studio was moved to bigger premises and renamed Strawberry Studios, after The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever".[7]

In 1969, Gouldman also began using Strawberry to record demos of songs he was writing for Marmalade.[8] In December 1969, Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz agreed to a proposal by Gouldman that he work solely at Strawberry, rather than move constantly between Stockport, London and New York. Gouldman convinced the pair that these throwaway two-minute songs could all be written, performed and produced by him and his three colleagues, Stewart, Godley and Creme, at a fraction of the cost of hiring outside session musicians. Kasenetz and Katz booked the studio for three months.[9] The three-month project resulted in a number of tracks that appeared under various band names owned by Kasenetz-Katz, including "There Ain't No Umbopo" by Crazy Elephant, "When He Comes" by Fighter Squadron and "Come on Plane" by Silver Fleet, and "Susan's Tuba" by Freddie and the Dreamers.[10]

When the three-month production deal with Kasenetz-Katz ended, Gouldman returned to New York to work as a staff songwriter for Super K Productions and the remaining three continued to dabble in the studio. With Gouldman absent, Godley, Creme and Stewart continued recording singles. The first, "Neanderthal Man", released under the name Hotlegs, but was released as a single by Fontana Records in July 1970.[11] Around the same time, the trio released "Umbopo" under the name of Doctor Father.[12]

In early 1971 Godley, Creme and Stewart recorded the album Thinks: School Stinks. They then recalled Gouldman for a short tour supporting the Moody Blues, before releasing a follow-up single "Lady Sadie". Philips Records reworked their sole album, removing "Neanderthal Man" and adding "Today", and issued it as Song. Stewart, Creme and Godley released another single in February 1971 under yet another name, The New Wave Band, this time with Derek Leckenby on guitar.[13]

Stewart offered the acetate to Apple Records. He waited months before receiving a note from the label saying the song, "Waterfall", was not commercial enough to release as a single. The group then decided to plug another song titled "Donna".[14] Jonathan King signed the band to his UK Records label in July 1972 and dubbed them 10cc. King chose the name after having a dream in which he was standing in front of the Hammersmith Odeon in London where the boarding read "10cc The Best Band in the World". Although, confirmed in a 1988 interview with Creme, the bands name represented ten cubic centimetres.[15] In February 1975, the band announced they were splitting with Jonathan King and that they had signed with Mercury Records for US$1 million. The catalyst for the deal was one song, "I'm Not in Love".[16]

At the beginning of the sessions for the band's fifth album, further creative differences occurred, and Godley and Creme left 10cc to work on a project that eventually evolved into the triple-LP set Consequences.[17] After the departure of Godley and Creme, Stewart and Gouldman opted to continue as 10cc, working with Paul Burgess. Their first album as a three-piece band was Deceptive Bends , named after a sign on the Mickleham bends on the A24 between Leatherhead and Dorking in Surrey.[18] The band suffered a major setback in January 1979 when Stewart was seriously injured in a car crash. Due to his injuries he was unable to work on music, and 10cc had to be put on hold.[19] While Stewart recovered, Gouldman recorded the title track to the film Sunburn with the help of some of the 10cc band members. Gouldman also recorded the soundtrack to the animated film Animalympics, which was originally intended as a 10cc project.[20][21]

Discography[]

Albums[]

  • 10cc (1973)
  • Sheet Music (1974)
  • The Original Soundtrack (1975)
  • How Dare You! (1976)
  • Deceptive Bends (1977)
  • Bloody Tourists (1978)
  • Look Hear? (1980)
  • Ten Out of 10 (1981)
  • Windows in the Jungle (1983)
  • ...Meanwhile (1992)
  • Mirror Mirror (1995)

Live Albums[]

  • Live and Let Live (1977)
  • Live at the International Music Show (1982)
  • Changing Faces - The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme (1988)
  • Alive (1993)
  • 10cc in Concert (1995)
  • Greatest Hits ...And More (2006)
  • The Best of 10cc Live (2007)
  • Clever Clogs (2008)

Compilation Albums[]

  • 100cc: The Greatest Hits of 10cc (1975)
  • Greatest Hits 1972-1978 (1979)
  • Art for Arts Sake (1982)
  • The Complete Hit-Album (1985)
  • The Very Best of 10cc (And Godley & Creme) (1991)
  • The Very Best of 10cc (1997)
  • The Best of 10cc: The Millennium Collection (2002)
  • Strawberry Bubblegum: A Collection of Pre-10CC Strawberry Studio Recordings 1969-1972 (2003)
  • The Definitive Collection (2003)
  • Greatest Hits ...And More (2006)
  • The Wall Street Shuffle (2007)
  • Collected (2008)
  • I'm Not in Love - The Essential (2016)
  • During After - The Best of 10cc and Beyond (2017)
  • Essential 10cc (2021)
  • The Things We Do For Love: The Ultimate Hits and Beyond (2022)

Box Sets[]

  • Greatest Songs and More (Great Box) (1991)
  • Tenology (2012)
  • Classic Album Selection (2012)
  • Before During After - The Story of 10cc (2017)
  • 20 Years: 1972-1992 (2024)

References[]

  1. ↑ https://www.thejc.com/life/heirs-to-the-beatles-the-story-of-10cc-u8b02tjc
  2. ↑ http://tencc.fan-site.net/ggearly.html
  3. ↑ http://tencc.fan-site.net/premarma.html#yellowbellow
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100803002653/http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/htm/injection004.htm
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/833663-Various-Strawberry-Bubblegum-A-Collection-Of-Pre-10cc-Strawberry-Studios-Recordings-1969-1972?srsltid=AfmBOoqMG0Z1V-SmDo3ApdFyXcKt_1kdgZ48qIzN8Oj4CTzj-0G_t-5_
  6. ↑ https://www.ebay.com/itm/124872339537
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081207015211/http://www.ericstewart.uk.com/questions9.htm
  8. ↑ https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/strawberry-studios-birth-10cc/#:~:text=As%20musicians%2C%20they'd%20all,3%20in%20the%20UK.
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080828065835/http://www.minestrone.org/zigzag44.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.onehitwondersthebook.com/?page_id=13936
  11. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/970854-Hot-Legs-Neanderthal-Man?srsltid=AfmBOooAKTGs1Ay2trRwJ3Sk1ToTy3auYZmnPGQpTcb67JuvXLTWyU_k
  12. ↑ https://secondhandsongs.com/work/200002/all
  13. ↑ http://www.manchesterbeat.com/bands/newwaveband/newwaveband.php
  14. ↑ http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/htm/mw04.htm
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081120165059/http://www.minestrone.org/pulse.htm
  16. ↑ http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/htm/esiwts.htm
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071017021830/http://www.proggnosis.com/interview.asp?theInterview=23
  18. ↑ https://stpaulsgallery.com/product/10cc-deceptive-bends-print-signed-by-aubrey-powell/
  19. ↑ http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/htm/esiwts.htm
  20. ↑ https://www.deezer.com/en/track/386144821
  21. ↑ https://www.last.fm/music/Graham+Gouldman/Animalympics
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