Paul and Sean bring to a close our five-episode dissection of all things Gouldman with a conversation attempting to do justice to Graham's post-2000 solo albums and the enormous number of songwriting collaborations that he has taken part in since Wax.
Graham has been incredibly prolific, by any songwriter's standards. With his 'insider' access to the PRS database, Paul has unearthed just shy of 1000 songs attributed to Gouldman. Many solo, many co-written with a vast array of songwriters, some of the very highest pedigree. Today's podcast can only scratch the surface of this rich seam. We look in some detail at his excellent work with Claudio Guidetti, Kirsty Maccoll, Henry Priestman (of Christians fame), Suggs (Madness) and Chris Difford (Squeeze), all of whom he rubbed shoulders with at EMI's residential songwriter workshops at Huntsham Court. Once again, we're massively indebted to both Graham and his archivist David Jarvis for allowing us to play snippets of some of the wonderful live recordings and demos of songs that were born during these star-studded jaunts. We hear some truly delightful clips from Graham's songwriting sessions with Gary Barlow (Take That) and Kevin Godley (for 'GG06'). Along the way, we touch on assorted projects with Andrew Gold, Roger Cook and less well-known but notable collaborators such as Barry Greenfield, Gordon Kennedy and Gary Burr. There are even some lovely revelations about his early Strawberry work with Neil Sedaka. Sadly, our efforts to shine light on some mystery compositions by Eric and Graham are in vain. Graham has no recollection of them, if they existed at all!
Gouldman rekindled his solo career with several fine and enjoyable albums which seemed to capture the same warm, natural and personal touch exhibited by his songs on 10cc's 'Mirror Mirror. 'And Another Thing', 'Love and Work' and 'Play Nicely and Share' all receive a good and deserved delving here.
90 minutes were simply no time at all to try and encapsulate Graham's discography over this 25-year period. Waiting in the wings for discussion, with rare tape recordings to hand, were the likes of Lamont Dozier, Tony Hadley, Steve Piggott, Kevin Kennedy and several others. But we hope that with the cross-section we did manage to cover, we succeeded in conveying the simple fact that Graham Gouldman is an exceptionally prolific, productive and consistent songwriter. It's a joy to hear him recall these many, many musical journeys with such clarity and fondness.
Thank you so much Graham and Dave, it's been a pleasure for us.
Consequences 10cc podcast 38 - Godley and Creme: Golden Boy and History Mix Vol.1 (1984-5)
Consequences 10cc podcast 37 - Godley and Creme: Birds of Prey (1983)
Consequences 10cc podcast 36 - Godley and Creme: Wide Boy, Submarine and Ismism (1980-1)
Consequences 10cc podcast 35 - Ooma-chasa-schmooma: Windows in the Jungle (1983)
Consequences 10cc podcast 34 - Six, Eight or Ten Out of Ten? (1981)
Consequences 10cc podcast 33 - Are We Normal? - Look Hear (1980)
Consequences 10cc podcast 32 - The Graham Gouldman Thing (1968)
Consequences 10cc podcast 31 - Bargains Unlimited: Graham Gouldman in the 1960s pt.1
Consequences 10cc podcast 30 - Interview with Strawberry Studios' Pete Tattersall, pt.2
Consequences 10cc podcast 29 - Interview with Strawberry Studios' Pete Tattersall, pt.1
Consequences 10cc podcast 28 - Kevin Godley on Muscle Memory, the 90s and now
Consequences 10cc podcast 27 - Kevin Godley on Godley & Creme and music videos
Consequences 10cc podcast 26 - Kevin Godley on the early years and 10cc
Consequences 10cc podcast 25 - Our funding decision
Consequences 10cc podcast 24 - Kevin Godley on Consequences
Consequences 10cc podcast 23 - Interview with Harvey Lisberg (long-time manager of 10cc)
Consequences 10cc podcast 22 - I'm Beside Myself: Godley & Creme (1964 - 1972)
Consequences 10cc podcast 21 - L & Freeze Frame (1978-9)
Consequences 10cc podcast 20 - Consequences re-issue review (2019)
Consequences 10cc podcast 19 - Deceptive Tourists (1977-78)
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