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"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

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

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

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Godley & Creme announce 'definitve' career-spanning box set

Godley & Creme announce 'definitve' career-spanning box set

The 11-disc Parts Of The Process – The Complete Godley & Creme will be released in February

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“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

"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

“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?

“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’

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“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

“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

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

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

Cannibalism, concept albums with Peter Cook and reinventing the pop video: What Godley & Creme did after 10cc.

“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

“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?

Frankie goes to Bethlehem: how The Power of Love became an unlikely Christmas anthem

Frankie goes to Bethlehem: how The Power of Love became an unlikely Christmas anthem

Holly Johnson insisted Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s 1984 hit wasn’t a festive song. But he was up against label ZTT’s plans for a nativity video …

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Special tribute concert will celebrate 50 years of legendary Manchester band

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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