10cc – HOW DARE YOU! LP – EXC/VG+ UK

10cc – How Dare You!
(Mercury Records  1976  9102501)
Matrix No’s: 1Y7/2Y7 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear to edges & name written on back
Plain White Inner Sleeve

Vinyl in Excellent/Very Good+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl which do give pops/crackles but sound quality is excellent overall)

10cc are an English rock band founded in Stockport who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme – who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the name “10cc” in 1972.

10cc featured two songwriting teams, one “commercial” and one “artistic”. Stewart and Gouldman were predominantly pop-songwriters, who created most of the band’s accessible songs. By way of contrast, Godley and Creme were the predominantly experimental half of 10cc, featuring an Art School sensibility and cinematically inspired writing.

Every member of 10cc was a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer and producer, and the writing teams frequently switched partners, so that Godley/Gouldman or Creme/Stewart compositions were not uncommon. After Godley and Creme left the band in 1976, Gouldman and Stewart were the main creative forces behind 10cc. Stewart left the band after 1995 and Gouldman continues to lead a touring version of 10cc.

Most of the band’s albums were recorded at their own Strawberry Studios (North) in Stockport and Strawberry Studios (South) in Dorking, with most of those engineered by Stewart. 10cc was co-managed by Ric Dixon and Harvey Lisberg at Kennedy Street, who had represented the individual members of the band since the mid-1960s.

How Dare You! is the fourth album by British band 10cc. Released in 1976, it included UK hit singles “I’m Mandy Fly Me” and “Art for Art’s Sake”. The album was the band’s third to have cover artwork by the Hipgnosis creative team.

It was also the last 10cc album by the original line-up of Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme (the latter two departed shortly thereafter to form Godley & Creme), until the four reformed (albeit briefly) for the 1992 album …Meanwhile.

Track listing

Personnel

10cc

• Eric Stewart – lead guitar (all tracks), backing vocals (3, 4, 7-9), lead vocals (2, 4, 6, 7), piano (4, 6, 7), bass guitar (2, 6), electric piano (4, 6, 7), pedal steel (7)
• Lol Creme – backing vocals (2-7, 9), Moog synthesizer (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9), piano (2, 3, 9), lead vocals (3, 6, 8), rhythm guitar (1, 6, 7, 8), lead guitar (1, 4, 9), maracas (1, 6, 7, 9), clavinet (1, 2), organ (3, 5), gizmotron (5, 9), electric piano (8, 9), sleigh bells (1), tambourine (2), vibraphone (4), recorder (6)
• Graham Gouldman – bass guitar (1, 3-5, 7-9), backing vocals (2-6, 8, 9), rhythm guitar (2, 5, 6, 9), tambourine (2, 6), zither (4), lead vocals (5, 6), cowbell (6), glockenspiel (7), slide guitar (7)
• Kevin Godley – backing vocals (all but 1), drums (1-4, 6-8), lead vocals (5, 7, 9), congas (1, 5), timpani (3, 5), cowbell (1), bongos (1), triangle (2), maracas (3), temple blocks (6), tambourine (8), castanets (9), cabasa (9)

Additional musician

• Mair Jones – harp (9)