People rave about I'm not in Love, but it's a bit of a dirge and was played to death on the radio at the time. It's the cleverness of the production that people admire about it.
But I still love I'm Mandy Fly Me and want to listen to it again if I hear it. The song exemplifies what made 10cc so interesting: the combination of, even tension between, two very different types of musician. Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman were Tin Pan Alley songwriters: Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were art-school experimentalists.
I'm Mandy Fly Me began as a conventional song by Stewart that wasn't quite working, then Godley turned it into something wonderful.
Liberal England is just an old time sentimentalist.
ReplyDeleteI’m Mandy Fly Me would be one of my Desert Island Discs.
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