INTERVIEW: 10cc's Graham Gouldman – Playing Worthing Assembly Hall
10cc played a fantastic set at last year's Chichester Real Ale And Jazz Festival – a set which brought home to everyone there the fact that the 1970s produced some great music.
Graham Gouldman, one of the band's original members and still going strong, feels exactly the same way.
"I think the '70s were a maligned decade," says Graham who brings the band to the Assembly Hall, Worthing, Sunday, May 24, 7.30pm (tickets on 02392 828282).
"It might be something to do with the fashions and the glam-rock," Graham says.
"People talk about Queen and David Bowie, and consequently, masked by the fashions, people tend to overlook the quality of the music.
"There was a lot of depth to our music."
Great decade
It was a great decade – and a great decade precisely because the 1960s before it had been so important: "It was the foundation of all pop music. You can still hear it in all the young bands now.
"There was the first influx of American music with Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers and then moving through Cliff and The Shadows to The Beatles.
"It was a great era to be young. It didn't just rub off on you. It formed you."
And from it emerged 10cc with hits including I'm Not In Love, Rubber Bullets, Dreadlock Holiday, I'm Mandy Fly Me, Art For Art's Sake, Life Is A Minestrone, Donna, Good Morning Judge, The Things We Do For Love, The Dean And I and Wall Street Shuffle.
Very best
Graham was there at the start when the band formed in 1972 in Manchester.
Songwriter extraordinaire, he'd already written Bus Stop and Look Through Any Window for The Hollies, No Milk Today for Herman's Hermits and For Your Love and Heart Full Of Soul for The Yardbirds.
"It has been quite continuous for 10cc," Graham says, "though it seems to have grown more intense over the last three years.
"I don't know if it is because of an increased amount of interest in the '70s per se or people are just coming to us.
"You look out in the audience and you see people of the age you would expect and then you also see younger people…"
The current tour coincides with the release of the new CD The Very Best Of 10cc.
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