By 1969, all four members of the original 10cc line-up were working together regularly at Strawberry Studios. Around the same time, noted American bubblegum pop writer-producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz of Super K Productions came to England and commissioned Gouldman to write and produce formulaic bubblegum songs, many of which were recorded at Strawberry Studios, and were either augmented or performed entirely by varying combinations of the future 10cc line-up. Salaverri, Fernando (2015). Sólo éxitos 1959–2012 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. p.194. ISBN 978-84-8048-866-2. Yet) I think it becomes claustrophobic, in the fact that you're trying to perfect things and you're looking at each other and eventually you maybe say this relationship is a little too tight for me now, and I need to break away. And that's what in retrospect, I found out long after because I still speak to Godley and Creme who – Lol is my brother-in-law, so I've got to see him – but for quite a while we didn't talk. I just said you're out of your minds for leaving this band. We were on such a winning curve, Graham Gouldman and I had to decide, are we going to be 5cc? Are we gonna scrap the name completely? Well, we thought we, no, we'd better carry on because we, this is 10cc, we are 10cc, this band. Two of our members are leaving us and that's not our problem, but we've got to carry it on.

The album starts off with a operetta, a three movement suite called "One Night in Paris", a totally progressive song that Speaking in the BBC Four documentary I'm Not in Love: The Story of 10cc in 2015, Stewart explained that the band, three years into a five-year contract with King, were earning a mere 4% [ clarification needed] of royalties. [ citation needed] Creme made it clear that the band had fully intended to sign with Richard Branson's fledgling Virgin label, with the band's records to be released in the US through Atlantic. Stewart and Creme were about to go on holiday with their wives (Stewart and Creme are brothers-in-law through marriage), however, and had left their manager Harvey Lisberg with power of attorney to accept the Branson offer. No sooner had they left the country, but another higher bid arrived from Phonogram and was accepted by the management team, including Lisberg. Creme said that he felt "horrified, embarrassed and disgusted – to this day I still am". [25] So good, in fact, that many have surmised that Queen based their own pop operetta on Une Nuit A Paris. Gouldman has his own views on the subject. well have been the thing that inspired Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". An excellent start to this album, and it made

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a b "Eric Stewart interview, Radio Wales, "I Write the Songs" ". The10ccfanclub.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 10 August 2010. It worked brilliantly with a million pound studio,” says Gouldman, modestly. “That helped, being plugged into that.” Prog music is of course not on the "rendez-vous" (as "10CC" would have said). What you'll get here is creative, inventive and interesting, but you can almost see it all acted out on a stage. "Flying Junk" wears it's Beatles inspired sound on it's

In the spring of 1995, the band toured Europe and Japan with a line-up of Stewart, Gouldman, Fenn, Tosh, Alan Park (keyboards, synthesisers) and Geoff Dunn (drums, percussion). Hoffman, Frank (1983). The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950-1981. Scarecrow Press. p.592. ISBN 0-8108-1595-8. Not only was this the breakthrough album for 10CC internationally, but it was the beginning of my obsession with the After 1983’s Windows In the Jungle, the Stewart-Gouldman 10cc went on hiatus, returning with the original line-up for …Meanwhile, which did not revive them. A four-CD box, Before, During and After: The Story of 10cc, was released in 2017, the same year Stewart published a memoir, Things I Do for Love. Gouldman still leads a version of 10cc over the occasional objections of his former mates.SonOfMan #GG/06 film for #10cc stage intro". YouTube. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020 . Retrieved 10 August 2019. The musicians are all outstanding, just look at the arsenal of music instruments they play. The singing is band when I was quite young. For that reason, I love this album, mostly for personal nostalgic reasons, and I have exceptionally bad. Yes the humour is there, but the music sounds like german schlager music to me. This Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.593. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

great here and even though french people might not enjoy this much I think it´s hilarious. There are The album closed with Life Is A Minestrone, a Creme-Stewart team-up that, according to Gouldman, “begged the question, ‘What is death?’”, and The Film Of My Love, a “massive piss-take” of a lachrymose love serenade. “It was cheesy,” he grins. “Cheese gone off, that was the idea.” We'd reached a certain crossroads with 10cc and already spent three weeks on the genesis of what turned out to be Consequences... The stuff that we were coming up with didn't have any home, we couldn't import it into 10cc. And we were kind of constrained by 10cc live... We felt like creative people who should give ourselves the opportunity to be as creative as possible and leaving seemed to be the right thing to do at that moment. Stewart said there were immediate benefits in the absence of Godley and Creme. "It became clear things went much smoother and the atmosphere was much more pleasant than with Lol and Kevin," he said. [28]The band also continued outside production work at Strawberry, working with Dave Berry, Wayne Fontana, Peter Cowap and Herman's Hermits, and doing original compositions for various UK football (soccer) teams. In 1971 they produced and played on Space Hymns, an album by New Age musician Ramases; in 1972–73 they co-produced and played on two Neil Sedaka albums, Solitaire and The Tra-La Days Are Over. Stewart left the band after this tour, and has since commented: [40] "10cc is well and truly finished as far as I am concerned." Married to a pair of sisters, Stewart and Creme have kept in touch. [41] 1999–present: 10cc touring band, GG/06 [ edit ] 10cc in 2010, on the Swedish TV show Bingolotto