Hi Bob, Thank you for your kind words about “Feel The Benefit”. I thought you may be interested to know where that title came from. When I was a kid living in Manchester I would come in from the cold and immediately my mum would say “take your coat off Graham or when you go […]

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme left the band. But Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart soldiered on as 10cc and had their biggest hit in the U.S. ever with “The Things We Do for Love,” a one listen smash. A seeming parody of Top Forty hits, it was sing-songy, with incredible changes, incredible harmonies and even […]

I was waiting in line at the grocery store when the two Mexican (i.e. from Mexico) women in front of me whipped out their Centurion cards. You may not know what I’m referring to. It used to be called the Black card, but Amex forgot to trademark it and then other companies started to use […]

I woke up with the song “Head and Heart” in my brain. In case you don’t know, the “hit” was by America, it appeared on their second album, “Homecoming,” which contained “Ventura Highway.” But the song was written by John Martyn. What stunned me was that neither recording sounded like the version in my head. […]