180 Gram Vinyl! Includes Classic Hits “I’m Mandy, Fly Me” & “Art For Art’s Sake”! Wonderful Poppy Hooks & Catchy Choruses!
As founding member Graham Gouldman says, Our main influences were TheBeatles and the Beach Boys. Then there was all the other stuff For me it waspeople like Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Jimmy Webb, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Hollyand the Everly Brothers. Eric [Stewart] was more rock n roll, the blues andR&B; while Kevin [Godley] and Lol [Creme] were sort of Jacques Brel, moreartistic and avant-garde. Its what happened when we put all those thingstogether that made 10cc. The result was some of the greatest pop records ofthe 20th century.
From their breakthrough No 2 hit Donna in 1972, to their final No 1 DreadlockHoliday in 1978, via such landmark releases as Im Not In Love, theirworldwide smash in 1975, 10cc stood for the kind of heightened pop sensibilityachieved only by the very greatest music practitioners. In truth, they couldhave come from any era. 10cc would have been as at home in the dynamic earlydays of pop in the 1950s, as they would have been in the instant-gratificationdownload culture of today. As Gouldman points out, It was all about thesongs. Not the image or who the singer was or who played which instrument.Like The Simpsons, 10cc could be appreciated on several levels: pureentertainment delivered by pop-sophisticates. As Rolling Stone put it in 1975,There is more going on in one 10cc song than on the last ten Yes albums.It wasnt anything the group built towards either, it was all there on theirvery first record Donna. You didnt have to be conversant with thedoo-wop-channelled-through-Frank Zappa influence to appreciate itsinventiveness. We were just trying to amuse ourselves, says Gouldmannow. That was why it worked. The fact was we had our own recording facility,Strawberry Studios in Stockport. We actually started writing together just for alaugh, really. We werent consciously trying to make hit records.
How Dare You (1976) is the fourth album by these British Art-Pop Rockers. Itsbrilliant cover art was designed by the recently deceased Storm Thorgersson ofHipgnosis. After attaining worldwide success with their hit “I’m Not In Love”,10cc returned with a varied set of songs, often tongue-in-cheek humor andeccentric songwriting. Hits “I’m Mandy, Fly Me” and “Art For Art’s Sake” arelittle stories with wonderful poppy hooks and catchy choruses. This is 10cc attheir creative peak!
“[A] well-crafted album that shows off 10cc’s eccentric humor and pop smartsin equal measure… [I]t remains a solid album of witty pop songs that willsatisfy anyone with a yen for 10cc.” – Donald A. Guarisco, allmusic.com
Features:
180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Pressing
Classic Album
Import LP
Insert
Gatefold Sleeve
Musicians:
Eric Stewart, bass, fuzz bass, guitars, keyboards, pedal steel, piano,vocals
Kevin Godley, bongos, cabassa, castanets, congas, cowbell, drums, maracas,percussion, tambourine, timbales, timpani, triangle, vocals
Graham Gouldman, cowbell, dobro, double bass, glockenspiel, guitars, tambourine,zither, vocals
Lol Creme, bass, clavinet, guitars, keyboards, maracas, moog synthesizer,vibraphone, whistle, vocals
Selections:
Side 1:
1. How Dare You
2. Lazy Ways
3. I Wanna Rule The World
4. I’m Mandy Fly Me
5. Iceberg
Side 2:
1. Art For Arts Sake
2. Rock ‘N’ Roll Lullaby
3. Head Room
4. Don’t Hang Up
5. Get It While You Can
