10cc-...Meanwhile (1992)

One of the most refined progressive pop bands of the 1970s was the British formation 10CC. The ability of this band was to fuse addictive and catchy songs with an extraordinary sound universe of eclectic origin, great arrangements and productions of enormous class, turning them into the most snobbish and carefree of art rock.
His line-up was made up of four great musicians, all of them great composers and experienced instrumentalists, such as Lol Creme, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Eric Stewart. They separately, before forming 10 CC, had dedicated themselves to composing hits for artists in the sixties such as The Hollies, The Yardbirds, Herman's Hermits or Jeff Beck among others.
Already in 1970 Eric Stewart built the Strawberry Studios and hired Creme and Godley and from their first collaborations came the song “Neanderthal Man”, which achieved immediate success under the name of Hotlegs. This success leads them to open for The Moody Blues on the tour they gave during that year for which Gouldman would join him. The good feelings that the quartet offered resulted in the creation of 10CC, also motivated by the success of several songs such as the boogie rock "Rubber Bullets", which managed to reach the top of the British charts in 1973. At the end of that The same year their first album “10 CC” would arrive, where they demonstrated the group's songwriting skills with very original songs of great class. From here the group's career would skyrocket with a series of high-quality albums such as "Sheet Music" (1974), "The Original Soundtrack" (1975) and "How Dare You" (1976), all of them impeccable works studio with very sophisticated arrangements, enveloping and effective melodies, and certain qualities of romanticism, thus creating a unique and unmistakable style.
But after three years in which they had achieved international fame, they still had to conquer the North American market, which resisted their sophisticated mix of pop and rock, which was not conceived for tours and the great North American stadiums. All this was reason for the critics to begin to accuse them of cold technicality and part of the public would also begin to turn their backs on them, something that would lead the group to its first great crisis that would lead to the abandonment of Godley and Creme, who decided to continue. on their own, forming the duo Godley and Creme.
However, this abandonment would not limit the trajectory of the other 10CC, and thus Stewart and Gouldman resumed the group's career by publishing the album "Deceptive Bends" (1977) which was followed by the direct "Live And Let Live" (1977), and the interesting “Bloody Tourists” (1978).
The eighties were marked by works with disparate results such as “Ten Out of 10” (1981) and “Windows In The Jungle” (1983), after which the band disintegrated until new years later.
In 1993, the original line-up returned, thereby creating great expectations in the world of pop and rock, which were endorsed with the publication of the excellent album "...Meanwhile", a work in which they returned to their unmistakable style, with a series of songs refined rock and pop songs starting with the hit "Woman in Love" an addictive rock song that recovers the best 10CC, to which are added other outstanding cuts such as the melodic and catchy "Wonderland", the rock "Fill Her Up" , the reggae “Welcome To Paradise”, or the neo-progressive “Don´t Break The Promises”, while the rest keep intact the enormous songwriting quality of the group with sophisticated songs of refined quality.