LEGENDARY UK band 10cc will be live in Australia this October and November, playing all the hits that made them one of the most loved acts of their generation.
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With timeless hits - including I'm Not In Love, Dreadlock Holiday, Rubber Bullets, Donna, Art For Art's Sake, The Wall Street Shuffle and The Things We Do For Love - to their name, 10cc are one of the most successful bands the UK produced.
The band are a constant staple of gold radio formats across the planet and entertained a generation of music lovers.
This year founding member Graham Gouldman and fellow members of his band will bring these amazing songs to life across Australia.
Formed in 1970, 10cc began as a session unit dubbed Hotlegs.
The band scored a surprise UK smash with the single Neanderthal Man.
After they had rechristened themselves 10cc, the band backed Neil Sedaka before they recorded Donna in 1972, a sly satire of late-'50s doo wop.
The follow-up, Rubber Bullets, topped the charts in 1973 and both the subsequent single, The Dean and I, and an eponymously-titled debut LP further solidified 10cc as a force in British pop.
While Sheet Music (1974) and singles (including the Brian Wilson-esque Wall Street Shuffle, Silly Love and Life Is a Minestrone) continued 10cc's dominance of the UK charts, they found the US market virtually impenetrable until the 1975 release of I'm Not in Love, which topped the charts at home and climbed as high as number two in the United States.
Following a series of unsuccessful efforts in the early 80s, the band disbanded.
Today, a rejuvenated version of the band - including founder Graham Gouldman on bass and vocals, Rick Fenn on guitar and vocals, Paul Burgess on drums and instrumentalists Mick Wilson and Mike Stevens - continue to tour to a diverse audience.
"Year on year we get busier and busier," Gouldman said.
"It's great. We love touring and playing together and we get on really well.
"The audiences these days are very gratifying.
"You get the people you would expect, who grew up with 10cc, but you also get young kids who know the songs too.
"Now whether they've discovered 10cc for themselves, via the internet or radio, or just grown up with their parents playing it in the house, I don't know.
"But we get a great mix of people from the generations."
Tickets will go on sale from July 3.
