Kevin Godley
- Rock
- soft rock
- progressive rock
- new wave[2]
- Singer
- songwriter
- musician
- music video director
- Vocals
- drums
- percussion
- The Mockingbirds
- The Sabres
- Doctor Father
- Hotlegs
- 10cc
- Godley & Creme
- GG/06
Kevin Michael Godley (born 7 October 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, drummer and music video director. He is known as the singer and drummer of the art rock band 10cc and later as part of collaboration duo Godley & Creme with Lol Creme.
Early life
Kevin Michael Godley was born on 7 October 1945 in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, to a Jewish family, and went to North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham.[3]
While attending art college in Manchester Godley met future creative partner Lol Creme. Godley and Creme joined the R&B combo the Sabres.[4]
10cc and Godley & Creme
They became involved in a number of bands such as the Mockingbirds, Hotlegs and later 10cc. As part of the bands Godley was a songwriter, lead vocalist, played drums, percussion and keyboards. Godley and Creme recorded four studio albums with 10cc.[5] In 1977, early in the recording of the band's fifth studio album Deceptive Bends, unimpressed with the songs by bandmates Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman and eager to work on other projects outside of the band, Godley and Creme left.[6]
Both Godley and Creme briefly 'reunited' with their former 10cc bandmates Stewart and Gouldman on the band's tenth studio album ...Meanwhile (1992). Following ...Meanwhile, Godley and Creme went their separate ways again, having experienced difficulties together as early as 1988.[7]
Later work
Godley later again reunited with Gouldman to form the band GG/06. Together they recorded a self-titled extended play (EP), which was made available for free via their website.[8] Since then Godley has several times joined Gouldman's iteration of 10cc in concert, and was featured on the live and video album Clever Clogs (2008).[9]
More recently Godley moved into developing a music platform for the iPad, one that combines audio and video to create a global recording studio in the cloud called "WholeWorldBand".[10] The company was nominated for the SXSW Music Accelerator Award in 2013, and was one of eight finalists selected from a pool of over 500.[11]
In 2017, Godley publicly invited musicians to send him music to work on his debut solo studio album, titled Muscle Memory with the idea being that he would take the rough ideas and turn them into a finished song.[12] The album was originally supposed to be released in 2018 through campaign on pledgemusic.com, but due to its closure the release was postponed. In 2021, Kevin Godley's album Muscle Memory was completed and released by The state51 Conspiracy after the project stalled as a PledgeMusic campaign.[13]
In 2018, Godley was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts by Staffordshire University.[14] In 2021, Godley joined "Group of Humans"[15] a globally distributed community of creative leaders and change architects as Creative Director.[16] He currently lives and works in Wicklow, Ireland with his wife Sue,[17] and hopes to direct a film based on Orson Welles' time in Ireland.[18]
Discography
Studio albums
As featured artist
| With GG/06
10cc |
References
- ^ "Kevin Godley | Songs". AllMusic. 7 October 1945. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^ "Godley & Creme reviews, music, news - sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com.
- ^ Episode 95-Kevin Godley. Sodajerker Podcast
- ^ Kevin Godley.com, History Retrieved 30 December 2020
- ^ George Tremlett (1976). The 10cc Story. Futura. ISBN 0-86007-378-5.
- ^ Buskin, Richard (June 2005). "Classic Tracks: 10cc – 'I'm Not in Love'". Sound on Sound. Cambridge, England: SOS Publications: 62–69. Retrieved 21 September 2015
- ^ Lol Creme interview, Uncut, 14 December 1997. Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "GG/06". kevin-godley.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "The Official 10cc Fan Club/Latest News". The10ccfanclub.com. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ "WholeWorldBand". WholeWorldBand. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^ "WholeWorldBand: SXSW Accelerator award finalist | Music | News". Hot Press. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^ "Muscle Memory". kevin-godley.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Out This Week / On 29 January 2021 – SuperDeluxeEdition". 25 January 2021.
- ^ Guttridge, Richard (6 June 2018). "10cc star to be honoured by Staffordshire University". Express & Star. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ "Meet the Humans".
- ^ "Kevin Godley - LinkedIn". (subscription required)
- ^ O'Rourke, Frances. "First encounters: Kevin Godley and Sulinna Ong". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ "Muscle Memory:Kevin Godley Talks". wearecult.rocks. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Hog Fever". kevin-godley.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
External links
- Kevin Godley at AllMusic
- Kevin Godley discography at Discogs
- Kevin Godley at IMDb
- v
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- Graham Gouldman
- Paul Burgess
- Rick Fenn
- Keith Hayman
- Iain Hornal
- Eric Stewart
- Lol Creme
- Kevin Godley
- Stuart Tosh
- Tony O'Malley
- Duncan Mackay
- Vic Emerson
- Gary Wallis
- Mike Stevens
- Mick Wilson
- 10cc
- Sheet Music
- The Original Soundtrack
- How Dare You!
- Deceptive Bends
- Bloody Tourists
- Look Hear?
- Ten Out of 10
- Windows in the Jungle
- ...Meanwhile
- Mirror Mirror
- Live and Let Live
- Alive
- Clever Clogs
- 100cc
- Greatest Hits 1972–1978
- Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme
- The Very Best of 10cc
- Strawberry Bubblegum: A Collection of Pre-10CC Strawberry Studio Recordings 1969–1972
- Greatest Hits ... And More
- Greatest Songs and More (Great Box)
- "Donna"
- "Johnny, Don't Do It"
- "Rubber Bullets"
- "The Dean and I"
- "Headline Hustler"
- "The Worst Band in the World"
- "The Wall Street Shuffle"
- "Silly Love"
- "I'm Not in Love"
- "Life Is a Minestrone"
- "Art for Art's Sake"
- "I'm Mandy Fly Me"
- "The Things We Do for Love"
- "Good Morning Judge"
- "People in Love"
- "Dreadlock Holiday"
- "One-Two-Five"
- "Feel the Love"
- Discography
- The Magic Lanterns
- The Mindbenders
- Hotlegs
- "Neanderthal Man"
- Thinks: School Stinks
- You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It
- Godley & Creme
- Wax