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Love Graham.<\/p>\n
We toured together in Ringo’s band a few years back and I got to play those songs you mentioned with him. \u00c2\u00a0Graham is an amazing talent and what a songwriter. Think of the hits he wrote PRE-10cc! \u00c2\u00a0Bus Stop for the Hollies- Heart full of Soul for the Yardbirds to name 2 of many…<\/p>\n
Also one of the nicest cats I ever met. Old school English gentleman. The opposite of me. hahaha We get on great!\u00c2\u00a010cc is doing shows with us in Europe this summer and I look forward to seeing him again.<\/p>\n
Amazing band as well!<\/p>\n
Luke<\/p>\n
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long-time reader, first time commentor (I think… ).<\/p>\n
I was born in the UK in the mid-60s and therefore grew up with 10cc in the 70s. I live in Norway now, on a stretch of the coastline in the south known for its temperate climate, and a couple of summers back I went to see Graham and the boys (I hope they won’t mind me calling them boys, as someone of a not-dissimilar age I practically invite its use) at one of the two towns local to me (T\u00c3\u00b8nsberg, the oldest town in Norway).<\/p>\n
It’s worth commenting that the band put on an amazing show, packed with songs that were great to hear live after so many years. The venue was not massive, but the energy and enthusiasm for the music coming from the band was palpable. I mean, why wouldn’t it be with that catalogue to call on…!? But we’ve all seen bands going through the motions and this was as far from that as it’s possible to be.<\/p>\n
It’s quite a thing to get normally reserved Norwegian audiences to whoop and holler, but 10cc managed it on that balmy summer night.<\/p>\n
Both band and audience could feel the benefit (sorry, not sorry).<\/p>\n
All the best from the fjords,<\/p>\n
Dave King<\/p>\n
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Such pop brilliance!!<\/p>\n
Kim Bullard<\/p>\n
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Best thing ever. Brilliant song. Brilliant song writer.<\/p>\n
Joe D’Ambrosio<\/p>\n
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Always consistently great music from 10CC. And it started with Hotlegs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fantastic \u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neanderthal Man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 – did that ever appear in the US charts?<\/p>\n
Hugo Burnham<\/p>\n
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Hi Bob – Have been a Graham Gouldman fan since his early songwriting days (Yardbirds, Hollies, Herman Hermits) which led me to 10cc and Rubber Bullets (great rhyme with balls and chains and balls and brains). My flatmate and I listened to the first several 10cc albums cover to cover and really locked in on the Original Soundtrack side 1 opener Une Nuit a Paris fading into I’m Not in Love. Plus the cover art was cool as well as the next couple of covers by the Hipgnosis team. Miss that fantastic LP art and packaging. Agree with you on Deceptive Bends. Thanks again for your writing and observations.<\/p>\n
Boyd Allen<\/p>\n
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That whole album is a work of genius. I got it in grade 9, 1978. Wore it out, got it on cassette, CD, and iTunes. Still play it. Only recently did I come to know that Graham Gouldman wrote Bus Stop, when he was just a kid. A hidden gem on Deceptive Bends is ‘I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor’ which – via clever segways in the lyrics – tells you all of the chord changes to play the song, right on time.\u00c2\u00a0 ‘I bought A flat, *diminished responsibility, you’re\u00c2\u00a0D9th person to C, to B suspended…’ Honestly, I love it.<\/p>\n
Kind regards,<\/p>\n
Rob Whittaker<\/p>\n
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Nice one Bob.<\/p>\n
10cc is one of the 10 most underrated Brit bands ever.<\/p>\n
And Graham Gouldman should be in the Songwriters Hall of Fame For Bus Stop, Look Through Any Window, Heart Full of Soul and For Your Love alone.<\/p>\n
Stephen Dessau<\/p>\n
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Totally agree with you Bob, 10cc was a ridiculously good band with fantastic clever lyrics that consistently surprised the listener while beautiful melodies stuck in your head.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought everything they did from Rubber Bullets to Bloody Tourists.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks as always for the great deep cut dives that transport us back!<\/p>\n
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Dan Butler<\/p>\n
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Great props to very deserving ARTISTS.<\/p>\n
Dennis Pelowski<\/p>\n
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Bob,<\/p>\n
Headline Hustler!! Holy Macca!<\/p>\n
When they sing “under my plastic mac, under my plastic mac” … man!<\/p>\n
Thomas Quinn<\/p>\n
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I have always LOVED ‘Feel The Benefit’, especially the live version on the double live LP, ‘Live And Let Live’. It even has a bass solo in the coda of the song? Love the build at the end. ‘Bloody Tourist’ is a great record, too. I still pull out the 10cc vinyl on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
bfletcher28<\/p>\n
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HONEYMOON WITH B TROOP (from 10cc Deceptive Bends lp)<\/p>\n
DON’T HANG UP\u00c2\u00a0 (HOW DARE YOU lp)<\/p>\n
superb band<\/p>\n
etc etc etc<\/p>\n
Don de Brauwere<\/p>\n
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Great to feel the love for 10cc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Deceptive Bends\u00e2\u20ac\u009d particularly their epic closer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Feel The Benefit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which had always been a fave. These days, only Graham Gouldman remains as an original member (2.5cc) but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surrounded by long time compatriots who do just fine making their music sound terrific. Gouldman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s side project with Andrew Gold was also an interesting listen.<\/p>\n
When you get a chance, put on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Guitar\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Justin Hayward and John Lodge. That’s 10cc as their backing band. Oh, to think what that ensemble could have created.<\/p>\n
Dave Logan<\/p>\n
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“Feel the benefit” a great song.<\/p>\n
I always liked their “Queen meets\u00c2\u00a0Gershwin” mini rock opera “Un nuit a Paris” too. “Pretentious? Moi?” (Fawlty Towers.)<\/p>\n
Thought 10cc basically fell between 2 stalls.<\/p>\n
Too poppy for the prog fans.<\/p>\n
Too proggy for the pop fans.<\/p>\n
It’s all folk music anyhow. “I ain’t never heard no horse sing\u00c2\u00a0a song” (Louis Armstrong.)<\/p>\n
Art for art’s sake…<\/p>\n
Mark Hudson<\/p>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Not In Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6had the disc on my turntable playing the morning after I broke up with my first real love post high school.\u00c2\u00a0 I realized she and I weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t getting along and broke it off. \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Big boys don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cry\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Big boys don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cry\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
It was bleak time for me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
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10cc are a band whose album tracks I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve warmed to over the years. Their singles were some of my faves, but the ultimate jukebox of Spotify has allowed me to dip in to their catalog and fall in love with a batch of their LP.s I then started picking up vinyl copies of their albums; their s\/t debut, its follow-up\u00c2\u00a0Sheet Music, and just last week their double live\u00c2\u00a0Live and Let Live\u00c2\u00a0($2.50 at Arroyo Records in Eagle Rock).<\/p>\n
Like XTC, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re often too clever by half, taking their songs towards obscure, proggy directions, and obscuring their insane facility crafting hooks. But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the point. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always make it easy for you, and their knotty, intricate songs reward repeat listens.<\/p>\n
I included “Honeymoon With B Troop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, also on\u00c2\u00a0Deceptive Bends,\u00c2\u00a0on a playlist, and have listened to the track over and over.<\/p>\n
Come to think of it, guess I have to buy that album one on vinyl too.<\/p>\n
Michael Krumper<\/p>\n
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The “young” fellow in 10CC (i.e. the one who isn’t in his seventies) is a guy called Iain Hornal. I don’t know him or anything, but he’s also a touring member of ELO when the play live, so you know he has to be a bit good, and he has a couple of solo albums that well worth checking out – the latest one is here:<\/p>\n