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Interview by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages audio, 1995
From '60s Manchester – the Mockingbirds, Mindbenders, and writing hits for the Yardbirds and the Hollies – through to the break-up of 10cc, via Stawberry Studios, Jonathan King and hits like 'I'm Not In Love': it's all here!
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10cc: a Hot Property from Old Hotlegs
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 21 October 1972
BY NOW YOU probably know that 10 c.c. are more or less a reincarnation of Hotlegs, who scored a hit around two years ago with ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, 1973
WITH THIS DEBUT ALBUM, 10cc are well on their way to becoming the true studio wizards of the seventies. It's a startling record, bursting with ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 23 June 1973
UNTIL a year ago, Graham Gouldman was going through what he calls his "why not?" period. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 28 July 1973
SINCE THE Beatles re-created the album market with Sergeant Pepper we've become used to the idea that the best of rock'n'roll is invariably found in ...
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973
There's a rumour going round Death Row... ...
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 11 August 1973
CAN YOU AFFORD TO LAUGH – AND MISS OUT ON 10CC? ...
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, September 1973
10cc ARE SO damn good, it makes you wonder where they've been all this time. Geographically the answer is simple if drab: Stockport, Cheshire. Musically ...
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 8 November 1973
MANCHESTER, England — "I am known in the business for hype," UK Records president Jonathan King boasted rather than confessed. "Sometimes I hype like hell. ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 22 November 1973
A NEW STRAIN of music has been developing of late, unheralded except by those who delight in new studio techniques applied in loving parody to ...
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, January 1974
I DON'T CARE if your heart rests with country twang, surf harmonies, acid riffs, folk strums, commercial muzak, or Anglophile accents. There's one thing that ...
10cc: Have You Seen A More Boring Picture Of A More Bored Looking Bunch Of Creeps?
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 February 1974
WOW, HEAVY STUFF, MAN. BUT LOL CREME, THE SMALL ONE, SAID IT. NICK KENT, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS NEITHER BORED NOR BORING — IN ...
10cc: Viability Of New Marketing Techniques Illustrated
Interview by Steve Turner, New Musical Express, 29 June 1974
What's this? A band with no image. They'll never shift the vinyl, insists STEVE TURNER firmly. But 10cc prove that there's more to the art ...
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, 1 July 1974
ONE PROBLEM with 10cc's first album was that it hit you hard on first listening, but often failed to hold up to repeated playings. Perhaps ...
10cc: The Worst Band In The World?
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Betrock, ZigZag, August 1974
WHILE MANY of the veterans on the 1960s musical scene are still around, few are creating much in the way of new musical excitement. There ...
Review by Dave Schulps, Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press, October 1974
1. POMP: COULD the band who sing "We're the Worst Band in The World" possibly be pompous? ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 1 March 1975
AIN'T NO GETTING round it: 10cc make brilliant records. ...
10cc: The Punk And I or Two Jews Blues
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 March 1975
...In which two nice young men of Hebraic extraction (LOL CRÈME and CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY) engage in heated debate about 10 c.c.'s collective attitude. Or ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 19 June 1975
10cc's Original Soundtrack is a fascinating record. Musically there's more going on than in ten Yes albums, yet it's generally as accessible as a straight ...
10cc: Mondo Perverts Flail Out With The Original Sound Track
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, July 1975
When they raided my club that nightThey ruined my act with the leather umbrellaThe Chief de Police got a frightHe was up in my boudoir ...
Man, Steeleye Span and 10cc at Cardiff Castle
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975
DEKE LEONARD IS getting incoherent. ...
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, August 1975
IT'S VERY difficult to express a feeling of disappointment in such a medium as this. Like probably many of you, I'd been looking forward to ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 20 September 1975
A HATCHET-wielding psychopath was on the loose in the next room. In the circumstances, it was beyond comprehension how Lol Creme could present a gleaming ...
They're Not in Love: 10cc Eats Rubber Bullets
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 October 1975
LONDON — AFTER trying to crack the U.S. market for nearly three years, success came suddenly to 10cc this summer. 'I'm Not in Love', with ...
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Hit Parader, November 1975
FIVE YEARS AGO one of the most mindless, repetitious, quintessential singles thumped up the world record charts in double-quick time. It was called 'Neanderthal Man'. ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 December 1975
"YES," SAID Graham Gouldman without any hesitation, "we are deadly serious to break over here." ...
10cc: How Dare You! (Phonogram)***
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 January 1976
THIS ALBUM really bugs me. So much so that I've spent the better part of a morning throwing away half-typed sheets of paper. The trouble ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 7 February 1976
In which the Fab Four pick their Fabbest Fourteen to illustrate the ascent of sweetness, light, and the Technological Aesthetic to the neanderthal world of ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 21 February 1976
TENSE SI SI: That's just to prove I speaka da lingo but it's also true about my interview with 10cc. ...
Banned — Why?: What Turns Censors On…
Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
It's Donna Summer at the moment, but the Beatles, Stones even Lena Horne have all run into radio censorship. So this week, MM examines that ...
10cc: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 28 February 1976
THE MUSIC IS exactly as you'd expect it really. More or less. ...
10cc: Herr Creme Gives You Bounce
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 28 February 1976
10cc: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, March 1976
In the February Esquire, Douglas Davis discusses the new meaning the word "tough" has taken on in photographic circles: "It has come to mean (particularly ...
Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 25 March 1976
The quintessential 10cc moment comes at the end of How Dare You?: an ethereal voice pleads, "Don't hang up!" The riff is pretty and relaxing. ...
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, April 1976
Abbreviations:GG ... Graham GouldmanLC ... Lol CremeES ... Eric StewartKG ... Kevin GodleyHL ... Harvey Lisburgh (manager) ...
10cc: We Don't Want To Be Superstars…
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 17 April 1976
IT'S CRAZY, totally unpredictable, this life with 10cc. ...
10cc, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac, ELO et al: Split Ends
Overview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 4 December 1976
SOME come, others go, but the name lives on for ever...10cc set no precedent by splitting in half last week, but the decision by Graham ...
New 10cc: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 11 June 1977
10CC WERE excellent. This is news? No, though in my experience they have never been the apostles of mechanical perfection sneered at by some critics. ...
Interview by Kris Nicholson, Circus, 21 July 1977
10cc Has Divided, Regrouped and Spawned A Hit-Producing LP Deceptive Bends ...
'We Couldn't Scrap The Whole Thing': 10cc's Survival Hit
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 28 July 1977
THE 10CC THAT will be touring America starting in mid-July is only half the group that recorded 1975's 'I'm Not in Love', but twice the ...
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 16 September 1978
IF 10cc HAVEN'T yet clambered back onto the pedestal they managed in their original incarnations, they have at least pulled together all the necessary elements ...
Godley & Crème: 'How Do We Get To Be Rich And Famous, Kev?' 'But Lol, We Are Rich And Famous'
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 23 September 1978
Fighting their reputation and their record company, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme turn defence into attack. ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978
"YOU CAN touch the magic tonight," claimed guitarist Eric Stewart. ...
10cc: Bloody Tourists (Polydor)
Review by Jon Young, Feature, January 1979
WHEN LOL Creme and Kevin Godley took their gizmo and went off to make Consequences, the remainder of 10cc (5cc?) seemed to be reeling from ...
Live Review by Paul Yamada, Concert News, July 1984
10 C.C. IS A band with quite a past. The four members have had a lot of experience playing in English pop-rock groups; they are ...
Conference Call: Mike Mills talks to 10cc!
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, 1995
ON THE receiving end of the PR’s pointy red fingernail: Sylvie Simmons... ...
Review and Interview by Chris Ingham, MOJO, April 1997
All the single hits (1970-1986) and ‘Une Nuit A Paris’ from Manchester's art-pop maestros, famously named after the average volume of the male ejaculation. Plus ...
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2006
10cc made smart pop for smart people, and surprised many (including themselves) when they crossed over to the mainstream. Terry Staunton spoke to Graham Gouldman ...
10cc: "It was a tragedy we didn't stay together"
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 20 November 2012
They made some of the cleverest and most inventive music of the 70s, but split up at the height of their success. 10cc come together ...
Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
10cc: Before, During, After – The Story Of 10cc (Universal)
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 2017
The echoes of four years of chart-bound art'n'smarts. The legacy of 10cc. ...
see also Godley & Creme
see also Mindbenders, The
see also Hotlegs
see also Magic Lanterns, The
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