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Lin Bensley

"We were the luckiest b******s on the planet!” Shagged-out chic and avant-garde pop: How Godley & Creme became Britain's weirdest popstars

Kevin Godley (right) and Lol Creme of British rock duo Godley & Creme, photographed on 23rd November, 1987.

"The two main writing teams – myself and Gouldman, Godley and Creme – really started to push in opposite directions,” was how Eric Stewart remembered the recording sessions for 1976's 10cc album How Dare You? As soon as the sessions were finished, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme upped sticks and launched a new career as Godley & Creme. 

The two men immediately set about making an album of their own, primarily to promote the Gizmotron, a guitar effects device and prototype synthesiser. 

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