BIOGRAPHY
10cc formed in 1972 in Stockport, near Manchester, built around four multi-instrumentalist songwriter-producers: Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who had already been working together at their own Strawberry Studios since 1968. Gouldman and Stewart supplied the band's most direct pop songwriting, while Godley and Creme brought an art-school, cinematic edge, a tension that shaped the group's run of UK number ones, including Rubber Bullets, I'm Not in Love and Dreadlock Holiday. Godley and Creme left in 1976 to pursue the Gizmo device and video production; Gouldman and Stewart carried 10cc forward with drummer Paul Burgess, scoring further hits before Stewart's 1979 car accident and eventual departure in 1995. Gouldman has led a touring incarnation since 1999.