10cc are an English art-pop band that released two albums on UK Records in 1973/74, followed by seven albums and a live two-record set on Mercury between 1975 and 1983. In their initial four-piece lineup, 10cc recorded the choral-layered production landmark “I’m Not in Love.” Following the departure of co-founders Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, […]
Godley & Creme were an English musical duo and video-production team comprised of multi-instrumentalists Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. They first charted in the comedy-rock act Hotlegs, which morphed into 10cc. After four albums and a string of hits with 10cc, Godley & Creme recorded as a duo, starting with the 1977 triple-album Consequences, a […]
Deceptive Bends is the fifth album by English art-pop band 10cc. Preceded by the departure of co-founders Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, the songs on this album are performed by the remaining duo of Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart with help from drummer Paul Burgess and assorted studio personnel. Released in April 1977, the album […]
How Dare You! is the fourth album by English quartet 10cc. Released in 1976, the album sees the four members divide into the exclusive songwriting partnerships of Gouldman/Stewart and Godley/Creme. The latter pair would leave the band soon after the release of this album. Most of the album’s songs are written in through-composed form. A1. […]
Sheet Music is the second album by English band 10cc. Released in 1974, the album lampoons a range of post-Victorian musical styles with classic satire and studio trickery. Highlights include the ivory-tight opening track, the frantic/staccato “Clockwork Creep” and the lush, through-composed “Somewhere in Hollywood.” Tracklist: A1. “The Wall Street Shuffle” (3:54) A2. “The Worst […]
Bloody Tourists is an album by English art-rock/pop band 10cc, released in 1978 on Mercury. The album is their sixth studio longplayer, the second without co-founders Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, and the first to feature the band’s newly expanded six-piece lineup. Tracklist: A1. “Dreadlock Holiday” (4:28) A2. “For You and I” (5:18) A3. “Take […]
Duncan Mackay is an English keyboardist and composer, known for his stints in Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (1975–77), 10cc (1978–81), and for his work on albums by the Alan Parsons Project, Camel, Cliff Richard, Elkie Brooks, and Kate Bush. As a solo artist, he debuted with the 1974 album Chimera on Vertigo. During his time […]
Ramases was the performance moniker of English folk-psych musician Kimberley Barrington Frost, who cut three singles and two albums with his wife Selket (aka Dorothy Frost.) The singles appeared on CBS and Major Minor between 1968 and 1970 under the name Ramases and Selket. Their album, Space Hymns, was recorded at Strawberry Studios with backing […]
