Graham Gouldman : The John Robb interview
10cc are a fantastically odd band.
They’d large transatlantic hits and but appear to have slipped by the cultural cracks. their songs are higher identified that the band however then that was presumably the plan anyway as they had been 4 songwriters in Manchester who got here collectively and created this nice artwork pop that was neither glam or prog. maybe as a result of they had been gifted sufficient to exist on their very own phrases has seen them ignored even in Manchester music narratives the place there’s typically a leap from the sixties to the punk interval…it’s time this was addressed!
The 10cc legend on the artwork of songwriting, 10cc, Manchester within the sixties, writing classics like ‘For Your Love’ for the Yardbirds and ‘Bus Cease’ for The Hollies, producing the Ramones in Stockport, Gilbert O’Sullivan and far more together with his present challenge…
Songwriting is returning to the long-lasting Denmark avenue, as Outernet, the music, tradition and leisure district, announce their partnership with TransAtlantic Artists to launch the inaugural Denmark Road Songwriters Retreatbeginning on Sunday March twenty third.
The Denmark Road Songwriters Retreat will see a number of songwriters come collectively for one week to create new songs in a spot that has an unbelievable legacy of music making. Following within the footsteps of The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Small Faces, Elton John and the Intercourse Pistols, at the moment’s established and rising songwriters will collaborate on model new music.
Artists attending the retreat embody Graham Gouldman, one of many world’s main songwriters and founding members of 10cc. Graham was main songwriter for most of the band’s largest hits, equivalent to “I’m Not in Love,” “The Wall Road Shuffle,” “Dreadlock Vacation, “The Issues We Do For Love”, “Rubber Bullets’, “Artwork for Artwork’s Sake” and “I’m Mandy Fly Me”, and in 2014 was inducted into the Songwriter’s Corridor of Fame.
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