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Godley and Creme . . . Cry (1985) was an international hit with faces morphing into each other using simple soft-edged wipe transitions. This visual effect was later refined using digital coding in Michael Jackson’s Black or White (1991) by ‘Thriller‘ director, John...
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[Beyonce’s] Destiny’s Child/10cc: Independent Woman/Dreadlock Holiday by 2ManyDJs 2003 album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Part 2: 10cc’s final No.1 was Dreadlock Holiday (1978) The Social Network (Facebook Movie) 3 the Hard Way . . . Hip Hop Holiday...
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The Things We Do For Love was the only 10cc song that reached a higher chart position in the U.S. than the U.K. It was released in 1977 two years after Godley and Creme left the band.
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Queen – When Peter Grant and I offered to manage Queen On 28th Dec 1973 Queen supported 10cc at the Top Rank Club in Liverpool where one of the songs performed was ‘Jailhouse Rock‘: A couple of years later the opportunity arose to manage them when they found...
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Their follow-up Rubber Bullets had opening lyrics inspired by Elvis Presley‘s ‘Jailhouse Rock‘ which had just been re-released in the U.K. reaching No. 6 in Dec 1971. The BBC thought Rubber Bullets was inflammatory with The Troubles in Northern Ireland and limited...