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“Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity. But then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger”: How 10cc’s Rick Fenn ended up working with David Gilmour, Peter Green, Mike Oldfield, and almost all of his other heroes

The underrated guitar great looks back on the “improbable serendipities” that punctuate his 50-year career, hails the guitar he’s been playing for almost all of it, and reveals the favorite solos in his catalog

Guitar World

"I had a lovely chat with Princess Anne about my career and touring. She was quite genned up." Graham Gouldman on royal approval and the chances of 10cc's original lineup reuniting

10cc's remaining founder member Graham Gouldman is touring with the band and solo this year

Louder

10cc review – 70s legends reprise a dazzling string of pop classics

Fifty years since the band fractured with the departure of Godley and Creme, songs from Donna to I’m Not in Love are in prime condition on what is billed as ‘another bloody greatest hits tour’

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“For about three days, just listening to this thing, I was looking at Kevin and the other two guys saying ’What have we created? This is brilliant’“: The difficult bossa nova birth and enduring brilliance of 10CC’s I’m Not In Love

10cc’s classic turned fifty this year

MusicRadar

“We listened to it and said, No, that's crap, and put it aside.” Brutally dismissed by one music critic as “like a turd floating down a river of ****”, one of rock's most romantic songs is getting a 50th anniversary re-release today

“People come up to you and you know what they’re going to say, that it reminds them of their first relationship or the love of their life.”

Louder

"Does he love her, does he not love her? People play it at weddings, but it has that strangeness about it…": As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, 10cc's Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley discuss the making of their classic anti-love song

We caught up with the band's Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley for the inside track on one of the 20th century’s greatest but most unconventional ballads

MusicRadar

10cc celebrate 50th anniversary of I'm Not In Love with new single release

10cc's new single also features the first new song from Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley in nearly 20 years

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10cc’s Graham Gouldman: ‘Every West Indian person I’ve spoken to loves Dreadlock Holiday – but I wouldn’t write certain lines now’

As the 78-year-old star tours his latest solo LP, he answers your questions on his Everton terrace anthem, the making of I’m Not in Love and hosting Joey Ramone in Stockport

The Guardian - UK

“He said, ‘You’ll be with me for a short time because I won’t be able to keep you.’ And he was right… We were always quietly confident”: What went right for 10cc, what went wrong, and how they could have avoided it

Graham Gouldman explains why the art-rock icons believed in themselves so much, the album that best represents them, and why he’d never release new music using the band name

Louder

Eric Stewart worked with Paul McCartney and ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog, but as guitarist for 10cc, he created one of the most thrilling pop sounds in British music history

Learn the chart-conquering guitar style of 10cc’s Eric Stewart, which puts melody to the forefront

Guitar World

"It's too safe. It needs a kick up the arse": How 10cc transformed I'm Mandy Fly Me into an epic via "two whacking great guitar solos" and a plane crash

The band members may argue about the origins of the title, but there's no denying that the multi-part I'm Mandy Fly Me is a true pop classic

Louder

“Prog? There was a university pretentiousness about it. People asked what we did and I’d say, ‘10cc music’”: However you describe it, The Original Soundtrack is a progressive landmark

Their third album, complete with I’m Not In Love, moved away from three-minute singles and embraced opera and concept pop. Did it also inspire Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody?

Louder

“We used humour – you could do that then; there’s no humour in chart music now”: Graham Gouldman on the 10cc song he wouldn’t write today and the gizmo that broke up the classic line-up

Singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and briefly drummer went from writing hits for The Hollies and Yardbirds to success with ‘The Worst Band In The World’

Louder

“Their run of mid-70s hits were bona fide, pop-literate, soft-prog gold… but warming to their deeper cuts is a far tougher task”: 10cc’s 20 Years Box Set

Exhaustive 145-track collection highlights the infuriating, imperfect magic of the preposterously ambitious original four-piece

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“When they make documentaries about the 70s, they talk about glam and prog rock. 10cc weren't either so we don’t get a mention..." The rise and fall of 10cc's original line-up

Four great musicians and songwriters, known for their pioneering studio techniques, 10cc ruled the charts and straddled a line between prog and pop. But was their genre-defying talent their undoing?

Manchester Evening News

Special tribute concert will celebrate 50 years of legendary Manchester band

10cc achieved eleven top 10 hits, and sold over 15 million albums in the UK alone

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