10cc (album)

10cc
Studio album by 10cc
Released	July 1973
Recorded	1972
Studio	Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Genre	Art rock pop rock
Length	34:28
Label	UK
Producer	10cc
10cc chronology
10cc (1973) Sheet Music (1974)
Singles from 10cc
"Donna" b/w "Hot Sun Rock" Released: September 1972 "Johnny Don't Do It" b/w "4% Of Something" Released: December 1972 "Rubber Bullets" b/w "Waterfall" Released: March 1973 "The Dean and I" b/w "Bee in My Bonnet" Released: August 1973 "Headline Hustler" Released: March 1974 (US only)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Christgau's Record Guide	B+

10cc is the debut album by British rock band 10cc. It was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, which was part-owned by guitarist and engineer Eric Stewart, and released on Jonathan King's UK Records [No: UKAL 1005] label. The album reached No.36 in the UK.

Release and promotion

The album was recorded in the aftermath of the success of the singles "Donna" and "Rubber Bullets", which charted #2 and #1 both in UK and Ireland respectively. The closing track, "Fresh Air for My Mama", was a reworking of a section from the song "You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It", the B-side of 1970's "Neanderthal Man", an international hit by the band under its former name of Hotlegs.

A total of four singles were released in the UK while the fifth single "Headline Hustler" was released only for the American market to promote then-current tour over there.

Some future versions of the album had an altered running order.

The 2000 CD reissue of the album featured all the b-sides of the album's singles. The album in its entirety along with 2000's bonus cuts appeared, along with 10cc's second album, "Sheet Music" and all its released bonus cuts, on 2004 "10cc - The Complete UK Recordings," on Varèse Sarabande Records.

Critical reception

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "If you only know the forty-five-rpm version of 'Rubber Bullets,' then you missed their best rhyme: 'balls and chains' with 'balls and brains.' A calculated, devilishly clever version of what the Beach Boys ought to be doing. Or the Bonzo Dog Band should have done. Or something."

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Johnny, Don't Do It"	Lol Creme Kevin Godley Graham Gouldman	Creme with Godley	3:36
2.	"Sand in My Face"	Godley Creme Gouldman	Godley with Creme and Gouldman	3:36
3.	"Donna"	Creme Godley	Creme with Godley	2:53
4.	"The Dean and I"	Creme Godley	Creme with Godley	3:03
5.	"Headline Hustler"	Gouldman Eric Stewart	Gouldman with Stewart	3:31

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Speed Kills"	Creme Stewart Godley Gouldman	Creme, Stewart, Godley and Gouldman	3:47
2.	"Rubber Bullets"	Creme Godley Gouldman	Creme with Godley and Gouldman	5:15
3.	"The Hospital Song"	Creme Godley	Creme with Godley	2:41
4.	"Ships Don't Disappear in the Night (Do They?)"	Stewart Gouldman	Stewart with Godley	3:04
5.	"Fresh Air for My Mama"	Godley Creme Stewart	Godley with Creme and Stewart	3:04

German 1993 CD Re-Release one bonus track

1. "18 Carat Man of Means"

2000 Repertoire CD Reissue includes five bonus tracks

1. "Hot Sun Rock" (Stewart, Gouldman)
2. "4% of Something" (Stewart, Creme)
3. "Waterfall" (Stewart, Gouldman)
4. "Bee in My Bonnet" (Stewart, Gouldman)
5. "Rubber Bullets (Single Version)" (Godley, Creme, Gouldman)

Personnel

• Eric Stewart – electric lead guitar (all tracks), slide guitar (2, 5, 9), Moog synthesizer (5, 6, 9), backing vocals (all tracks), lead vocals (5, 6, 9, 10)
• Lol Creme – electric (1-7, 10) and acoustic (4) guitars, grand piano (1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10), Fender Rhodes electric piano (2, 4, 8-10), Moog synthesizer (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10), Mellotron (6, 9, 10), maracas (5, 6, 10), backing vocals (all tracks), lead vocals (1-4, 6-8, 10)
• Graham Gouldman – bass (all tracks), electric (6-8) and acoustic (2-4, 7, 9) guitars, Dobro (2), tambourine (2-6, 8), backing vocals (all tracks), lead vocals (2, 5-7)
• Kevin Godley – drums (all tracks), percussion (2, 4-8, 10), backing vocals (all tracks), lead vocals (all but 5), vibraphone (2, 8), fingersnaps (7), drum stick (9)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1973)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)	36
US Billboard 200	201

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)	Silver	60,000^
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.