10cc will rejoice the fiftieth anniversary of their big hit I am Not In Love with the discharge of a brand new seven-inch single by way of Common Music on February 14.
The traditional weepie can be backed by Don’t Need To Go To Heaven, the primary new music from Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley in almost 20 years. The pair will even reunite for a efficiency on BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room on Thursday February 13 the place they’ll carry out I am Not In Love reside, in addition to a really particular cowl and Don’t Need To Go To Heaven.
I am Not In Love featured on 10cc’s third studio album, Unique Soundtrack, which was launched in March 1975. It was the second single to be launched from the album, following Life Is A Minestrone, and reached No. 1 within the UK, the second of the band’s three number-one singles, and No. 2 within the US charts.
The music was largely written by Eric Stewart as a response to his spouse asking why he did not inform her he liked her fairly often, and is notable for its use of in depth stacked backing vocals, which type the majority of the observe. The music almost by no means made the ultimate lower of the album, having initially been conceived as a bossa nova-style piece which the band members deserted as none of them actually preferred it. It was solely when Stewart observed workers on the band’s Strawberry Studios in Stockport have been nonetheless buzzing the chorus that compelled the band to rethink.
