Re: Andrew Gold

Hi Bob

I lost a dear friend and songwriting partner last week, the singer, songwriter, producer and multinstrumentalist Andrew Gold.

He died in his sleep of a heart attack, following years of battling cancer, at the untimely age of fifty nine.

I first met Andrew in 1981 when 10cc’s US record company, Warner Brothers, recommended him as a co producer and writer, the idea being that 10cc’s chances of breaking into the American market would be greatly enhanced by us working with him.

That collaboration resulted in three great singles, testament to the fact that the partnership really worked well.

In 1982, when Eric Stewart and I decided not to continue working together as 10cc, I called Andrew in L.A. and invited him over to my house in Cheshire to write some songs for a couple of weeks. He stayed for six months.

What followed was five glorious years working together as Wax.

Although we stopped working  under that name in 1988 we continued to write and record together on various projects throughout the nineties.

We always kept in touch with each other and were planning to get together again to write and possibly record a new Wax album, which we were both very excited about.

Working with Andrew was my happiest musical partnership.

He was an awesome talent and it was a pleasure and a privilege to have him both as a friend and to make music with him.

Graham Gouldman