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Re-Feel The Benefit

LOVE 10cc! Love Graham. We toured together in Ringo’s band a few years back and I got to play those songs you mentioned with him.  Graham is an amazing talent and what a songwriter. Think of the hits he wrote PRE-10cc!  Bus Stop for the Hollies- Heart full of Soul for the Yardbirds to name […]

Graham Gouldman Responds

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 […]

Feel The Benefit

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 […]

Irreverence

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. […]