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10cc performing their Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour at The Royal Concert Hall Nottingham on Sunday 27th March 2022

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Graham Gouldman has been trading and touring under the 10cc livery for decades now, with band members that have been with him for longer than the classic line up.

Joining him for this Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour at the Royal Concert Hall on Sunday night are band stalwarts guitarist Rick Fenn and drummer Paul Burgess, both of whom have been in the 10cc live band since the 1970’s, Keith Clayman on keyboards and guitars and most impressively multi-instrumentalist and vertiginous vocalist Iain Hornall who has slotted in seamlessly with the monumental music of this grand band.

Opener, The Second Sitting For The Last Supper, instantly transported most of tonight’s packed audience back to their youthful days before they were treated to a salvo of really great pop songs such as The Wall Street Shuffle, The Things We Do For Love, and Good Morning Judge.

With impeccable multi part harmonies and tempo changes there was the romantic I’m Mandy Fly Me and I’m Not In Love which are as timeless as they are transcendent. There was an eleven minute version of Feel The Benefit and a scorching Silly Love, and there were some long forgotten album tracks from their 1974 album Sheet Music, such as Clockwork Creep and Baron Samedi. Non hit Old Wild Men is a forlorn ballad from that album with its melancholy musings about a band who will not pack it in, no matter how aged they get.

Bringing the main set to a close with Somewhere In Hollywood which saw Godley join the band on the screen as they played from the front before new songs Standing Next To Me and Say The Word saw this very high calibre of musicians still being able to interchange and harmonise their vocals to pull of these exquisite songs.

The encore had a sparkling a capella version of 10cc’s first single, Donna before they loaded up with Rubber Bullets that had everyone on their feet singing along, rocking out and going home with a smile on their faces.

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10cc is currently touring across 6 countries and has 45 upcoming concerts.

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Bristol Hippodrome Sunday 17th March 2019. Second time seeing the band. Brilliant musicians playing a great back catalogue. Sound quality perfect and well appreciated by an enthusiastic audience on the last night of the tour.

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A brilliant night at Birmingham Symphony Hall. Went as a trip down Memory Lane but WOW - these guys far exceeded expectations. The audience were mesmerised at their musicianship. They were very entertaining too, with a nice smattering of background to the tracks.. Highly recommended - whatever your age!

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Who would have thought that I'd get the chance to actually SEE the band perform? I could tell that they also enjoyed being on stage in Stockholm, making us happy. They did put on a show that felt genuine and as if it was yesterday the songs were written.

I looked around and thought: What a lot of OLD people here… Then, realizing that they are not OLD at all. We are the same age and still kickin' it! :-) I'd suggest everyone that feel the urge to see them on stage GO DO IT!

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• Jul 29 2024 Ocean City Music Pier Ocean City, NJ, USA Add time Add time Add times
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• Aug 01 2024 Arcada Theatre St. Charles, IL, USA  –  Find tickets Add time Tickets Add time Add times
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• Nov 14 2024 Værket Randers, Denmark Doors 7:30 PM  –  Scheduled: 8:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM
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• The Things We Do for Love
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• Feel the Benefit
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David Randall chatted to Graham Gouldman about his career.  First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 12 August 2018.

I worked out it’s nearly fifty years since I last saw 10cc live, and this was at the height of their seventies fame. Whilst aficionados remain impressed with the later albums …Meanwhile, and the last gasp Gouldman/Stewart collaboration Mirror Mirror, it’s the core seventies repertoire that persists.

Ably helmed by founder member Graham Gouldman (since 1999) the band also features mainstays Rick Fenn and Paul Burgess who can trace their own lineage back to 1976/77 (1973 if you include Burgess’ time as a touring member). This adds a reassuring note of authenticity.

10cc have one of the greatest pop rock songbooks of the seventies. Most songs played tonight were instantly recognisable thanks to the regular TV and radio coverage they originally received and not least because they are great songs. They were supplemented with a more recent piece Gouldman wrote featuring Brian May and a song co-written with vocalist/guitarist Iain Hornal.  And ‘Ready To Go Home’ was a tribute to co-writer Andrew Gold with whom Gouldman collaborated as “Wax” in the late-1980s.

Billed as the Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour. there were few surprises. The setlist was in fact almost identical to their October 2022 tour.

If this gig was then a very safe bet at the outset the repertoire was never in doubt and it was all executed perfectly. Perhaps too perfectly. The opening ‘Son Of Man’ video was impressive and the GG/06 grind may have even overshadowed what came next.

A live highlight ‘Art For Arts Sake’ was played early on and traditionally lends itself to an extended playout. That didn’t happen unfortunately and maybe two songs in the band hadn’t really warmed up. It was after all the first night of the tour. It would have been better placed after ‘Feel The Benefit’ a song which gave the band – erroneously – a progressive tag in some quarters .

In truth the band didn’t really come alive until the third encore ‘Rubber Bullets’ that also prised the audience from the newly refurbished seats at the one-time Colston Hall. Before that an acapella version of ‘Donna’ was sublime.

Along the way the setlist was peppered with pop history reference points but Gouldman is generous in his inclusion of songs he didn’t actually write including the somewhat bizarre ‘Clockwork Creep’ from ‘Sheet Music’.

The band’s version of ‘I’m Not In Love’ brought out the bossa nova style that was apparently present when the band first developed it whilst ‘Somewhere In Hollywood’ featured Kevin Godley on film reminding us that he and Lol Creme forged a healthy career in groundbreaking video production.

Iain Hornal shared lead vocal duties and at times brought a more West End show vibe to the delivery which was frankly a bit irritating. He lacked the soulfulness and sensitivity of an Eric Stewart akin to Tim Howar depping for Paul Young in Mike And The Mechanics.

What next for these seasoned troupers? The triple ultimate greatest hits tour?

Gouldman should be applauded for keeping the flame alive (and at the age of 77) but you can’t help thinking that this is a mellower iteration and that if Godley and Creme were on board there would be more grit in the mix.

Old Wild Men? Wait for the encores.

Review and photos by David Randall

Setlist: The Second Sitting For The Last Supper/Art For Art’s Sake/Life Is A Minestrone/Good Morning Judge/The Dean And I/Old Wild Men/Clockwork Creep/Feel The Benefit/The Wall Street Shuffle/Floating In Heaven/The Things We Do For Love/Say The Word/Silly Love/Somewhere In Hollywood/I’m Mandy Fly Me/I’m Not In Love/Dreadlock Holiday/Encore: Ready To Go Home/Donna/Rubber Bullets

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Among the most inventive and influential bands in the history of popular music, 10cc arise one of the very few acts to have achieved commercial, critical and creative success in equal measure. 

Testament to 10cc’s ongoing appeal, the band can count a generation straddling array of fellow artists, from Axl Rose to Sophie Ellis Bextor and Chrissie Hynde to The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie among their millions of fans. 

I'm Not In Love, written by Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart, features prominently in the soundtrack to the 2014 blockbuster film Guardians of the Galaxy, which spawned a No 1 album. Meanwhile, a key element of the soundtrack to 2010’s The Social Network, about the creation of Facebook, is Dreadlock Holiday, which also became the Sky Sports cricket theme in Australia.

10cc has sold more than 30 million albums around the world and the band’s longevity is testament to their timeless songs, as is their continuing to traverse the globe and play countries as disparate as Iceland and South Africa, Latvia and Japan, as well as across Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US. 

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

10cc ruled the pop world at a time – the 1970s – when the charts were dominated by some of the most creative and colourful artists in pop history. 

Unlike David Bowie, Queen, Elton John or Rod Stewart – all of whom they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with for a decade  – 10cc’s energies were not centred on image or celebrity-status, but on creating highly sophisticated rock masterworks with mainstream appeal. 

Early influences on the band included The Beatles and the Beach Boys, but their palate proved wide.  Says Gouldman, “For me it was people like Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Jimmy Webb, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. Eric [Stewart] was more rock ’n’ roll, the blues and R&B; while Kevin [Godley] and Lol [Creme] were into more artistic and avant-garde acts including Jacques Brel. It’s what happened when we put all those things together that made 10cc.” 

The result was some of the greatest pop records of the 20th Century. From breakthrough hit Donna in 1972 to the band’s final No 1, Dreadlock Holiday in 1978 – via landmark releases including 1975 worldwide hit I’m Not In Love – 10cc stood for the kind of heightened pop sensibility achieved only by the very greatest music practitioners. As Rolling Stone magazine put it in 1975, ‘There is more going on in one 10cc song than on the last 10 albums by Yes.’

With hit song-writing credits with bands including the Yardbirds, the Hollies and Herman’s Hermits already under his belt, the early 1970s saw Gouldman and his compatriots reach new levels of creative endeavour.  

He had spent time in New York writing for bubblegum kings Jerry Kazenetz and Jeff Katz, but fed up with being away from home, he returned to the UK to work with his friends at Strawberry Studios in Stockport. 

Back in neighbouring Manchester, Stewart, Godley and Creme had also been busy, with Stewart testing a new four-track recorder that lead to the recording of Neanderthal Man, a track that went on to enjoy 14 weeks in the UK charts in 1970, peaking at No 2. The studio band was called Hotlegs and comprised Godley, Creme, Stewart, and briefly Gouldman.

In 1972 Gouldman’s manager Harvey Lisberg (later to become 10cc’s manager) met Neil Sedaka, who was playing a residency at Batley Variety Club in Yorkshire. Sedaka’s career was in decline and Lisberg suggested he worked with the guys at Strawberry. 

The result was Sedaka’s hit comeback album Solitaire, produced by Gouldman, Stewart, Godley and Creme, with Stewart acting as engineer.

“We all learned so much from those sessions. Neil’s sheer professionalism, musicianship and song-writing were inspiring,” says Gouldman.

Meanwhile, their own project was progressing, with a single taking shape. “We’d done a few tracks and we needed a B-side for Waterfall [a Gouldman/Stewart composition]. There was a possibility that it would come out on the Apple label, which we were very excited about, because any connection with the Beatles was great,” says Gouldman. 

A Godley and Creme song, Donna, was chosen. “We didn’t have a name for the band and weren’t bent on world domination or anything, but Donna made us sit up and notice ourselves, that we actually had something special.”

And so 10cc was born, Donna became the A side and reached No 2 in the UK charts. Right from the start it was obvious they weren’t like other groups. All four could sing, were adept in the recording studio, and were seasoned musicians more interested in pleasing themselves than writing to a formula. 

Not long after Donna was released, Sedaka returned to Strawberry Studios to record a second album, The Tra-La Days Are Over, with the same team, and his career took off again.

10cc was essentially two song-writing camps, Gouldman and Stewart, plus Godley and Creme, although they would sometimes intermingle. “Our principle was always the music,” says Gouldman, “whatever’s best for the song. That means if I can sing better than you on it, that’s what happens. Or if Lol can play lead guitar better than you, he’ll do it. Consequently we had four singers in the band, four instrumentalists and four producers, plus Eric also engineered the sessions.

“The other thing was whoever wrote the song, it kind of became the property of the four of us. You couldn’t say, ‘That song is crap, I don’t want anything to do with it’. What you had to say was, ‘I don’t like that part of the song, but I think we could make it better by doing this’. You always had to come up with something positive.”

“It was the combination of all four of us that made the difference, not only in the song-writing, but in the production values as well,” says Gouldman.

Whether it’s the eight-minute pop opera Une Nuit a Paris, or the No 1 masterpiece I’m Not In Love, both from The Original Soundtrack (1975) album, no two 10cc records sound the same,

“A very important element,” explains Gouldman, “was we were completely self-contained. There wasn’t even a producer. If Eric was singing one of us would work the board. We used to just give the tracks straight to the record company.”

Indeed, they didn’t even have a recognisable frontman. “Eric was a very good-looking guy who took on the role quite often, and Lol was also brilliant out front. But you’d never know on the record who was playing guitar or even who was singing sometimes.”

The first time 10cc played live, at the Isle of Man Casino in 1973, they were taken aback at the response. “We went onstage and girls started screaming! It was like, what the f**k is going on? We imagined ourselves as professors of pop who were going to give a lecture on pop music, but it wasn’t like that at all.”

The critical plaudits also rolled in. Rolling Stone calling The Original Soundtrack (1975), “better than anything the Beach Boys have done of late”. The NME described I’m Not In Love as “a John Lennon song with a Paul McCartney vocal”. In an age where critics spent an inordinate amount of time trying to identify the new Beatles, 10cc increasingly seemed to fit the bill.

I'm Not in Love took the band to another level, hitting No 1 in the UK and No 2 in the US, and winning three  Ivor Novello Awards  for Best Contemporary Song, Most Performed Work and International Hit of The Year.

“Because we existed in our own world, we didn’t need anyone to tell us how good we were. We listened to the records and went, this is everything we want it to be and more,” says Gouldman. 

Even after the success of I’m Not In Love, they refused to play the game and followed it up with the acidic Art For Art’s Sake – and scored another Top 5 hit.

“Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake, was something my late father used to say to me, although he wasn’t cynical like that at all – he was very artistic. But it’s such a lovely phrase. Eric had this riff and I just started singing that, and the song came.”

The biggest surprise of all was the departure of Godley and Creme after their next album, How Dare You?  “It was horrible,” Gouldman admits. “It was an absolute disaster. Like getting a divorce.”

Godley and Creme had become preoccupied with the Gizmotron – from the word ‘gizmo’ – a device they had invented which when applied could bring new sounds and textures out of an electric guitar. Obsessed with devising a showcase for it, they began recording a triple album together, Consequences.

Says a reflective Gouldman decades later, “Kev and I, who stayed quite close, have talked about this since and have decided what should have happened; he and Lol should have gone go off and done their thing for a year or so, then allowed 10cc to resume. 

“But that’s just not how things were done in the ‘70s. No one had a year off. Plus I think the record company were probably expecting another album, tours were booked and so on.”

Instead, shaken but undaunted, Gouldman and Stewart continued as 10cc and scored more notable successes with their next two albums, Deceptive Bends (1977) – featuring their next worldwide hit single Things We Do For Love – and Bloody Tourists (1978), which spawned another international hit, Dreadlock Holiday.

“We were on a mission to prove ourselves,” says Gouldman, “This wasn’t like a couple of guys leaving the band who just played their instruments. This was two of the producers going, two of the singers going, two of the songwriters going. So it was a real 50 percent gone.”

Ultimately, the split took its toll and when Stewart was badly injured in a car crash in 1979, the writing was on the wall. 

“It flattened me completely,” Stewart later recalled. “I damaged my left ear and eye very badly. I couldn't go near music. I couldn't go near anything loud and I love music and motor-racing. I had to stay away from both things for a long time [and] the momentum of this big machine that we'd had rolling slowed and slowed and slowed. And on the music scene, the punk thing had come in a big way.”

All four original members enjoyed very successful post-10cc careers. Godley and Creme continued as a partnership, recording their own hit records – Under Your Thumb, Cry and Wedding Bells - and becoming Grammy-winning video directors for acts including Ultravox , The Police , Duran Duran and Frankie Goes To Hollywood . 

Stewart collaborated on three Paul McCartney albums in the 1980s and continues to record sporadically as a solo artiste.

Meanwhile Gouldman spent the 1980s concentrating on recording soundtracks for films such as Farah Fawcett’s Sunburn and the American animation Animalympics. He also worked as a producer with The Ramones and Gilbert O’Sullivan. 

He then formed Wax with American songwriter Andrew ‘Lonely Boy’ Gold and had hits with Right Between The Eyes and Bridge To You Heart.

Coming together again in the early-‘90s, Gouldman and Stewart produced two more 10cc albums, the first ... Meanwhile (1992), featured contributions from both Godley and Creme, while the last, Mirror Mirror (1995), despite the inclusion of elements from McCartney and Gold, was more a collection of Gouldman and Stewart solo songs. 

That same year, 10cc received a BMI citation for three million plays on US radio for I’m Not In Love (since risen to more than five million). This followed the BMI citation for two million plays (since risen to well in excess of four million) of Things We Do For Love,

In 2002, the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut hit single Donna, 10cc began to creep back into the general consciousness. With Gouldman fronting a new touring band, a 28-date UK tour was followed by a series of one-off events across Europe. The band have continued to regularly tour the world since. 

In 2007, UK national newspaper the Mail On Sunday produced a special 10-track, cover-mount Best of 10cc Live CD, distributing more than 2.4 million copies throughout the UK and Ireland. The paper reported that sales rose by 232,000 on the day of publication.

Since then Gouldman’s 10cc Mark 3  has toured the world, playing countries as disparate as Iceland and New Zealand, with the band playing the UK’s 5,200-seat Royal Albert Hall in London for the first time. The landmark concert saw Kevin Godley guest on several numbers including an a capella version – his suggestion - of Donna, which has since remained a key feature of the band’s concerts.

Reflecting Gouldman’s status as one of the world’s leading songwriters, he was inducted into America’s Songwriter’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York in 2014. Previous inductees include Noel Coward, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Elton John and Sting.

Highlights of 2022 for 10cc include four arena shows with Toto in Sweden and Denmark, reuniting Gouldman with Toto’s Steve Lukather – they were both members of Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band on tours across European and US in 2018.

“Year on year we get busier and busier. It’s great, we love touring and playing together and we get on really well. The audiences these days are very gratifying. You get the people you would expect, who grew up with 10cc, but you also get young kids who know the songs too,” says Gouldman. 

“This is as near as you’re ever going to get to hearing the perfect 10cc. Hit after hit after hit. It’s relentless. We show no mercy.”

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