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The 11 best songs and albums about fatherhood – according to music experts

Songs about fathers and fatherhood range in tone from joy and celebration to absence, tension and grief. For Father’s Day, we asked 11 experts to share their favourite tracks and albums about fatherhood.

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"I had a lovely chat with Princess Anne about my career and touring. She was quite genned up." Graham Gouldman on royal approval and the chances of 10cc's original lineup reuniting

10cc's remaining founder member Graham Gouldman is touring with the band and solo this year

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10cc review – 70s legends reprise a dazzling string of pop classics

Fifty years since the band fractured with the departure of Godley and Creme, songs from Donna to I’m Not in Love are in prime condition on what is billed as ‘another bloody greatest hits tour’

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“It was fantastic to have Paul come in every day, and we hung out with him quite a lot as well. The studio was absolutely crammed with our gear and his”: 10cc's Graham Gouldman on working with Paul McCartney at Strawberry Studios

We catch up with Gouldman as he prepares for the upcoming 10cc tour to talk about the craft of songwriting, his studio gear, AI in music, and the legacy of Strawberry Studios

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Graham Gouldman announces biggest Heartful Of Songs tour yet

Graham Gouldman takes his successful Heartful Of Songs tour on the road in October 2026

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Record-breaking England bowler James Anderson to be knighted at Windsor Castle

The Lancashire great was recognised for his services to cricket by former prime minister Rishi Sunak.

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10cc drummer Paul Burgess announces departure from the band

Longstanding 10cc drummer Paul Burgess has announced his departure from the band, ending a relationship that stretches back over 50 years to 1973.

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“For about three days, just listening to this thing, I was looking at Kevin and the other two guys saying ’What have we created? This is brilliant’“: The difficult bossa nova birth and enduring brilliance of 10CC’s I’m Not In Love

10cc’s classic turned fifty this year

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Graham Gouldman says 10cc's music reached 'a different audience' thanks to Doja Cat sample

10cc's ;70s classic I'm Not in Love has become a cross-generational hit.

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10cc announce their 'And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour' for 2026

Graham Gouldman leads art rock legends 10cc out on the road for another greatest hits tour culminating in a date at London's Royal Albert Hall in July

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“A 10cc reunion? It’s a hard no to that, I’m afraid”: Why Graham Gouldman is one of Britain’s greatest songwriters – even if people don’t know it

The former 10cc man has written for The Yardbirds, The Hollies and more – and now he’s taking his songs on the road

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“We listened to it and said, No, that's crap, and put it aside.” Brutally dismissed by one music critic as “like a turd floating down a river of ****”, one of rock's most romantic songs is getting a 50th anniversary re-release today

“People come up to you and you know what they’re going to say, that it reminds them of their first relationship or the love of their life.”

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"Does he love her, does he not love her? People play it at weddings, but it has that strangeness about it…": As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, 10cc's Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley discuss the making of their classic anti-love song

We caught up with the band's Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley for the inside track on one of the 20th century’s greatest but most unconventional ballads

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10cc celebrate 50th anniversary of I'm Not In Love with new single release

10cc's new single also features the first new song from Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley in nearly 20 years

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10cc’s Graham Gouldman: ‘Every West Indian person I’ve spoken to loves Dreadlock Holiday – but I wouldn’t write certain lines now’

As the 78-year-old star tours his latest solo LP, he answers your questions on his Everton terrace anthem, the making of I’m Not in Love and hosting Joey Ramone in Stockport

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Post your questions for 10cc’s Graham Gouldman

As he tours his latest album, I Have Notes, the soft rock star and writer of numerous 60s hits for others will take on your questions

Louder

Graham Gouldman announces Heart Full Of Songs Tour for 2025

Graham Gouldman will perform songs he's written for 10cc and other artists, acoustically, throughout the UK in March

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“He said, ‘You’ll be with me for a short time because I won’t be able to keep you.’ And he was right… We were always quietly confident”: What went right for 10cc, what went wrong, and how they could have avoided it

Graham Gouldman explains why the art-rock icons believed in themselves so much, the album that best represents them, and why he’d never release new music using the band name

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Guitar World

Eric Stewart worked with Paul McCartney and ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog, but as guitarist for 10cc, he created one of the most thrilling pop sounds in British music history

Learn the chart-conquering guitar style of 10cc’s Eric Stewart, which puts melody to the forefront

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"It's too safe. It needs a kick up the arse": How 10cc transformed I'm Mandy Fly Me into an epic via "two whacking great guitar solos" and a plane crash

The band members may argue about the origins of the title, but there's no denying that the multi-part I'm Mandy Fly Me is a true pop classic

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Graham Gouldman's I Have Notes: the 10cc songwriter-in-chief gets his pals in

I Have Notes is the sixth solo album from one of the UK's foremost composers of seven-inchers

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Kasabian rock out on their new album Happenings

The Streets and 10cc’s Graham Gouldman are also among those releasing new music this week.

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“Prog? There was a university pretentiousness about it. People asked what we did and I’d say, ‘10cc music’”: However you describe it, The Original Soundtrack is a progressive landmark

Their third album, complete with I’m Not In Love, moved away from three-minute singles and embraced opera and concept pop. Did it also inspire Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody?

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“We used humour – you could do that then; there’s no humour in chart music now”: Graham Gouldman on the 10cc song he wouldn’t write today and the gizmo that broke up the classic line-up

Singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and briefly drummer went from writing hits for The Hollies and Yardbirds to success with ‘The Worst Band In The World’

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Graham Gouldman announces new solo album I Have Notes to be released in July

10cc man Graham Gouldman enlists Brian May, Ringo Starr, Hank Marvin, Albert Lee and more for I Have Notes

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