Fact #114983
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Short story:
Neil Sedaka enters the UK pop singles chart with That's When The Music Takes Me, which will peak at No18 during a ten-week run on the chart. The musicians on the track will later find success as 10cc.
Full article:
Graham Gouldman (guitar/vocals, 10cc) : It was Neil Sedaka's success that did it, I think. We'd just been accepting any job we were offered and were getting really frustrated. We knew that we were worth more than that, but it needed something to prod us into facing that. We were a bit choked to think that we'd done the whole of Neil's first album with him just for flat session fees when we could have been recording our own material.
(Source : Graham Gouldman interview, Record Collector, 1984)
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(Source : Graham Gouldman interview, Record Collector, 1984)