10cc

ARTICLES IN LIBRARY

10cc: 10cc
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 astonishing ...

10cc: Rubber Bulletin
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, June 1973
UNTIL a year ago, Graham Gouldman was going through what he calls his "why not?" period. ...

10cc: 10cc
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 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 the ...

10cc: Ying Tong Iddle I Po
Interview by Ian MacDonald, NME, August 1973
CAN YOU AFFORD TO LAUGH – AND MISS OUT ON 10CC? ...

10cc: 10cc (UK)
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 they've ...

10cc: 10cc
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 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 old ...

10cc: 10cc
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 ties ...

10cc: Sheet Music
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, 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 it ...

10cc: The Original Soundtrack
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1975
AIN'T NO GETTING round it: 10cc make brilliant ...

10cc: The Punk And I or Two Jews Blues
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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 not, ...

10cc: The Original Soundtrack
Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 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 pop ...

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 night
They ruined my act with the leather umbrella
The Chief de Police got a fright
He was up in my boudoir with ...

Man, Steeleye Span and 10cc at Cardiff Castle
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1975
DEKE LEONARD IS getting ...

10cc: The Original Soundtrack
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 this ...

10cc: We're The Missionaries
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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 countenance ...

10cc And Ready To Roar
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'. The ...

10cc at Pressure Point
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 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, 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 is ...

The 10cc Fine Art Collection
Interview by Andrew Tyler, NME, 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 popular ...

10cc: Herr Creme Gives You Bounce
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, February 1976
10cc: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...

10cc: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, February 1976
THE MUSIC IS exactly as you'd expect it really. More or ...

10cc: How Dare You!
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 in ...

10cc: How Dare You?
Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 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. Suddenly, ...

10cc: How Dare They!
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, April 1976
Abbreviations:
GG ... Graham Gouldman
LC ... Lol Creme
ES ... Eric Stewart
KG ... Kevin Godley
HL ... Harvey Lisburgh ...

10cc: We Don't Want To Be Superstars…
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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, 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 Gouldman ...

New 10cc: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 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. In ...

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, September 1978
Fighting their reputation and their record company, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme turn defence into attack. ...

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 shock. ...

10cc: St Louis
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 accomplished ...

Conference Call: Mike Mills talls to 10cc!
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mojo, 1995
ON THE receiving end of the PR’s pointy red fingernail: Sylvie Simmons... ...

10cc: The Very Best Of 10cc
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 hits ...

see also Godley & Creme