– Aria
10cc was a British Band from back when history began in the late 60s.
This piece came out, what, 40 years ago? 50 maybe?
Okay, looking it up: 1975.
People still alive from back then were either kids or now wish they were.
I mean anyone who was a grownup from back then is one of the geezers everyone else talks back to with Okay, Boomer!
And it’s really beautiful. Listen.
1975? That’s 45 years.
So it was a long, long time ago.
And that’s what’s amazing. It would be a creative masterpiece if it was made today. Back then, with no PC software, with today’s PCs still a dream or two away, they MacGyvered it together.
They wanted a voice choral sort of background, but they only had four guys. So the one closest to a techno-whiz semi-synced up a dozen tapes of the four to run at the same time, looped and staggered so the break in each would be be drowned out by the eleven others.
The last piece fell into place when their secretary (the band had a secretary?) whispered a message. They decided on the spot that her whispered voice in the middle of the song would be perfect.
What gets to the residual pre-teen romantic in me is how the thing started. The wife of band member Eric Stewart complained that he didn’t say he loved her, at least not enough.
So he thought of a way to express a sort of helpless love expressed in denial.
So I’m Not In Love.
Want to see the words?
Click on: MetroLyrics
1975 ? We was heavy metal fans…….at the time we thought this was a gay type song…..I was born in “54” ……we call the kids….drug addicted lying thieves and punks…. the self entitled igets!