10cc biography book

  • 10cc chalked up more Top 10 singles and albums in the UK than virtually any other band of their generation: their most famous creation, 'I'm Not In Love', is a pop classic that has been played more than.
  • The definitive biography of 10cc, now updated & expanded, about which founder member Kevin Godley says, 'lots of stuff in there I didn't know!'.
  • Liam Newton's exhaustive, engrossing and authorised biography of 10cc, which earned rave reviews on publication, is now available in paperback.

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    10cc: The Worst Band In The World: The Definitive Biography

    December 26, 2022
    What English artist/band had more Top 10 singles in the UK in the 1970s? If you guessed David Bowie, Elton John or Queen you would be wrongs. It was 10cc.

    Exhaustive but by no means exhausting biography of the greatest British pop/rock band of the 1970s. That’s not my estimation of their importance but that of the multitude of music critics and artists included in this book who have been following the careers of the group and it’s 4 members from the first wave of the British Invasion in 1964-1965 to the broad music landscape of the 1980s and beyond.

    I first discovered 10cc when their most famous single, “I’m Not In Love”, made its way onto America’s shores while I was in high school. I was so captivated by the complexity and musicality of this song that I immediately ran down to the record store and bought the album, The Original Soundtrack, without having to hear another cut. Eager with my new purchase
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    10cc Biography, ‘The Worst Band In The World’, Set For Publication In February


    A fully authorised 10cc biography is to be published early next year. Titled 10cc: The Worst Band In The World, it has been written by Liam Newton and will be released through Rocket 88 on 12 February in hardcover.

    The exhaustive book is said to have been “a true labour of love” for Newton, who has been writing and researching the biography over the course of the last 30 years. The book features 30 chapters, more than 170,000 words and is 528 pages long.

    Described as the band’s “semi-legendary definitive biography”, 10cc: The Worst Band In The World is based on interviews with founding members Kevin Godley, Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart, plus those with a host of people connected to the pioneering Manchester outfit, including Rick Fenn, Paul Burgess, Harvey Lisberg, Jonathan King, Zeb White and Aubrey Powell. The result is the fullest telling of the fascinating 10cc (and Str

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    10cc: The Worst Band In The World: The Definitive Biography

    The Worst Band in the World: The Definitive Biography of "10c.c."

    Newton, Liam

    Published bygd Minerva Press, 2000

    ISBN 10: 0754103110 / ISBN 13: 9780754103110

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