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Graham Keith Gouldman (born on 10 May 1946, in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, in England) is an English songwriter and musician who was a long-time member of British band 10cc. Image File history File links Gouldmanmain. ...
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A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
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Career
'60s pop career: 1963-1968 Gouldman played in a number of Manchester bands from 1963, including The High Spots, The Crevattes, The Planets and Whirlwind, which became a house band at his local Jewish Lads' Brigade. The Whirlwinds – comprising Gouldman (vocals, guitar), Bernard Basso (bass), Stephen Jacobsen (guitar, bongos), Malcom Wagner, Maurice Spering and Phil Cohen – secured a recording contract with HMV, releasing a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Look At Me", backed with "Baby Not Like You", written by Lol Creme, in June 1964. The Jewish Lads Brigade was a military association of English Jewish boys, formed, organized, and directed by Col. ...
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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll. ...
Godley & Creme is a duo of musicians and music video directors. ...
In late 1964 Gouldman dissolved Whirlwind and in February 1965 formed The Mockingbirds with Jacobsen and Basso and a former member of fellow Manchester band The Sabres, Kevin Godley (drums). The Mockingbirds signed with the Columbia label, which rejected Gouldman’s first offering as a single – "For Your Love" (later a major hit for The Yardbirds) and issued two inferior tracks, "That’s How (It’s Gonna Stay" (February 1965) and "I Can Feel We’re Parting" (May 1965). The band switched to the Immediate label for "You Stole My Love" (October 1965) and Decca for "One By One" (July 1966) and "How to Find a Lover" (October 1966)[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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The band also began a regular warm-up spot for BBC TV’s Top of the Pops, transmitted from Manchester.[2] BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ...
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
In 1966-67 Gouldman recorded singles with two other bands, High Society and The Manchester Mob, both of which featured singer Peter Cowap.[3]
From 1965 Gouldman wrote a string of million-selling hit songs: as well as "For Your Love" he penned "Heart Full of Soul" and "Evil-Hearted You" for The Yardbirds, "Bus Stop" and "Look Through Any Window” for The Hollies', "No Milk Today" and "Listen People" for Herman's Hermits, "Pamela, Pamela" for Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, "Behind the Door" for Cher and "Tallyman" for Jeff Beck. Bus Stop is the title of a song recorded and released as a 7 45rpm Vinyl single by the British pop band The Hollies. ...
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He signed as a songwriter for the Robbins Music company in 1967 and a year later released three singles as a solo artist before recording his debut solo album, The Graham Gouldman Thing. In March 1968 Gouldman stepped in as a temporary replacement for bassist Bob Lang in The Mindbenders, writing the band’s final single, "Uncle Joe, the Ice Cream Man". The Mindbenders dissolved in November 1968. The Graham Gouldman Thing was the debut album by singer and songwriter Graham Gouldman. ...
The Mindbenders (originally called Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders) was a 1960s British Invasion band from Manchester. ...
Writer for hire: 1969-1972 Gouldman’s reputation as a hit songwriter attracted the attention of bubblegum pop producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz of Super K Productions, who invited him to New York to write formula bubblegum songs. The current version of this article or section is written in an informal style and with a personally invested tone. ...
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"Sausalito" single cover, 1969 In what he later called a "creative lowpoint",[4] Gouldman accepted. One of his first tasks for Super K was writing and singing lead vocals on "Sausalito (Is the Place to Go)", which was released in July 1969 under the name of The Ohio Express. Image File history File links Ohio_express. ...
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The Ohio Express was a Bubblegum pop/garage band that fronted for Kasenetz and Katzs Super K Productions studio musicians, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine (Yummy Yummy Yummy). The band is strongly associated with the bubblegum group 1910 Fruitgum Company with whom they shared lead singer and producer. ...
In December 1969 Gouldman convinced Kasenetz and Katz that the series of throwaway two-minute songs he was writing could all be performed and produced by him and three friends, Godley, Creme and former Mindbender Eric Stewart, at a fraction of the price of hiring outside session musicians. He proposed the quartet work at Strawberry Studios, a Stockport recording studio in which he and Stewart were financial partners. Kasenetz and Katz booked the studio for three months. Eric Stewart is a musician and songwriter most known for his tenure in 10CC in the 1970s. ...
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Kevin Godley later recalled:[5]
| “ | We did a lot of tracks in a very short time – it was really like a machine. Twenty tracks in about two weeks – a lot of crap really – really shit. We used to do the voices, everything – it saved 'em money. We even did the female backing vocals. | ” | When the three-month production deal with Kasenetz-Katz ended, Gouldman returned to New York to work as a staff songwriter for Super K Productions while the remaining three continued to dabble in the studio.
In late 1970 Gouldman returned to the UK to join Stewart, Godley and Creme – who had in the interim scored an international hit single with "Neanderthal Man" under the name of Hotlegs – on an abbreviated British tour supporting The Moody Blues. The Hotlegs were a short-lived British studio group best known for their one and only hit Neanderthal Man in 1970. ...
The Moody Blues are a British rock band originally from Birmingham, England. ...
10cc: 1972-1983
 10cc: From left, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley, Eric Stewart, Lol Creme. The four musicians continued work at Strawberry Studios, producing and backing artists including Cowap, Dave Berry, Wayne Fontana, Herman's Hermits and Neil Sedaka. In July 1972 they were signed by entrepreneur, producer and recording artist Jonathan King and bestowed with the name 10cc. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (722x601, 139 KB) This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. ...
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10cc is a British pop band which achieved its greatest commercial success during the 1970s. ...
Over the course of the next 23 years, 10cc scored three UK No.1 singles and five Top 10 albums, with Gouldman co-writing some of their biggest hits, including "The Wall Street Shuffle" (1974), "I'm Not in Love" (1975), "I’m Mandy, Fly Me" and "Art For Art’s Sake" (1976), "The Things We Do For Love" (1977) and "Dreadlock Holiday" (1978). Im Not in Love was also a 1978 song by Talking Heads, with different lyrics and sound. ...
"Sunburn" single cover, 1979 When Godley and Creme departed in 1976 to explore new musical territories, Gouldman remained with Stewart, continuing the band essentially as a two-piece, although with regular collaborators including Rick Fenn, Paul Burgess and Stuart Tosh. 1980’s Look Hear? album marked the end of the band’s run of chart success and 1983’s Windows in the Jungle became the last 10cc album for more than a decade. Image File history File links Gouldman_sunburn. ...
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Godley & Creme was a duo of English pop musicians and music video directors, namely Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. ...
Rick Fenn Rick Fenn is an English rock guitarist. ...
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Look Hear? is the seventh studio album by 10cc, released in 1980. ...
Windows in the Jungle is the ninth studio album by British pop band 10cc. ...
In 1979 Gouldman scored a minor hit with his single "Sunburn", written for the Farrah Fawcett/Charles Grodin film of the same name. Two years later he produced the Pleasant Dreams album for the Ramones – a record dismissed by the band’s guitarist, Johnny Ramone, as "too slick".[6] Farrah Fawcett (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett[1] on February 2, 1947) is an American actress. ...
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Wax tracks: 1984-1990 From 1984 to 1990 Gouldman teamed with American singer Andrew Gold, with whom he had co-written material in 1981, to form Wax. They produced four albums. Gold explained how the partnership began:[7] Andrew Gold (born August 2, 1951, in Burbank, California) is an American singer, musician and songwriter, best known for his 1976 Top 5 single Lonely Boy and the 1978 single Thank You For Being A Friend. Andrews parents were singer Marni Nixon (who provided the singing voice for numerous...
Wax was a 1980s pop group consisting of Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman of 10cc. ...
| “ | In 1982 I was called by the (then) Head of A&R at Warner Brothers Lenny Waronker, who I had known for years. He asked if I was a fan of 10cc, and I told him that indeed I was, very much. He said the band had a new album they were releasing called Ten Out Of 10, and he was of the opinion that, although the album was very strong, it might benefit the US audience to have a few additional cuts tailored more for the American ear. As he knew I was an Anglophile, we might hit it off well. I said it would be an honour if the band said OK. I spoke to Graham and Eric by phone and soon I was in the UK, co-writing and co-producing three tracks for the album, which was a blast to do and turned out very well. During the course of my three-week stay, Eric, Graham and I fell in love, as it were, and soon they asked me to join the band, which was an extremely exciting offer. For various reasons, which now seem dumb to me, and after great consideration, I demurred in favour of pursuing my own career and returned to America. This article needs to be wikified. ...
Ten Out of 10 is the eighth studio album by 10cc. ...
But before long Graham and I were talking again, and he asked if I wanted to return to England to write and just kind of hang for a few weeks. I went and ended up staying for seven months. Eric had decided to take some time off from 10cc and Graham, ever happy to be working, hunkered down with me writing and recording in his home studio in Cheshire. Soon we realised that what we were doing was basically writing and recording a home made band album.
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10cc again: 1992-1995 After a 12-year break Gouldman and Stewart resurrected 10cc for 1992’s ...Meanwhile album, which featured performances by Godley, Creme and Gold. Three years later came the final album by the band, Mirror Mirror. By then the decades-long partnership between Gouldman and Stewart was apparently over: the pair each wrote and recorded six songs separately, in different countries, playing together on just one song – an acoustic reworking of "I’m Not In Love". ...Meanwhile is the 10th studio album by British pop band 10cc. ...
Mirror Mirror is the 11th and last album by British pop band 10cc. ...
The final album featured a song, "Ready to Go Home", written by Gouldman in memory of his father, poet and playwright Hyme Gouldman, who had died in 1991.
In an interview[8] with the Jewish Telegraph Gouldman spoke of his father’s influence on his life and career: This article needs cleanup. ...
| “ | I'm always happy to talk about my father. He was the biggest influence on me. I always used to phone him during my 10cc days for help. Kevin called him "Hyme the Rhyme". He loved words. He always taught me to be original. He had high standards. He was a genius. What he did for a living was incidental, it was the writing that he lived for. And some of that has rubbed off on me. | ” | Gouldman included a new version of the song on his 2000 solo album, And Another Thing.... On the liner notes of his solo album, he noted: "It reflects my feelings at the time. I suppose I was trying to put a positive slant on his passing, remembering all the things we had done together and his artistic legacy to me. The last verse of the song best reflects my feelings on this. This song has been recorded by many artists and remains one of my favourites. Very emotional." And Another Thing. ...
Graham Gouldman and Friends: 2004-2006
 Graham Gouldman and Friends. Left to right, Paul Burgess, Mick Wilson, Mike Stevens, Rick Fenn, Graham Gouldman. Gouldman began touring as "10cc featuring Graham Gouldman and Friends", with his band comprising Rick Fenn, Paul Burgess, Mike Stevens and Mick Wilson. Image File history File links Gouldman_friends. ...
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In January 2004 he reconvened with Kevin Godley to write more songs. Godley explained:
| “ | In a nutshell ... unfinished business. In all the years we’ve known each other we’ve only written three pure, Godley-Gouldman songs. That, and a desire to find out if the music muscle still worked with someone I enjoyed and didn’t have to spend weeks getting to know. | ” | In Gouldman’s words: | “ | Kevin and I have always stayed in touch even though we haven’t actually worked together for many years, so I was delighted when he called to suggest we write some songs. When I asked "Why?" He said, "No reason ... just to do it and see what happens." A good enough reason for me. What followed was a series of writing and recording sessions ... Something like the early days when we wrote and recorded for ourselves with one ear half cocked for something that broke the mould. I always figured Mr G had the best voice in the band, ironic then that he never sang lead on a 10cc single … Even I managed that. Now justice has been done. Kevin’s voice and razor sharp lyrics take us to places we haven’t visited before… Always a good place to start.[1] | ” | In July 2006, Godley and Gouldman's website offered four downloadable tracks, "The Same Road", "Johnny Hurts", "Beautifulloser.com" and "Hooligan Crane". The songs are the initial "offering" of a group of songs they have been working on over the past two years.
Discography
Albums The Graham Gouldman Thing was the debut album by singer and songwriter Graham Gouldman. ...
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Singles - "Sunburn" (1979) UK #52 Australia #26 - theme music to film Sunburn
References - ^ Mockingbirds. Whirlwinds discography.
- ^ "Q Rock Stars Encyclopedia" by Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, Dorling Kindersley, 1999
- ^ 10cc family tree at Minestrone fan website
- ^ Gouldman biography at Godley-Gouldman website
- ^ "Zigzag" magazine, January 1975
- ^ Pleasant Dreams
- ^ Liner notes on Wax's "ComonKnowledge.com" album
- ^ Undated interview, "Jewish Telegraph"
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