10cc’s ‘I’m Not In Love’: Is It Actually A Love Track?

10CC’s “I’m Not In Love” is considered one of rock’s biggest love songs, one that’s beloved by everybody. Work on the tune started in late 1974 and was completed in 1975 in order that it may very well be included within the band’s groundbreaking album, The Authentic Soundtrack .

The extent of care taken by Stewart and the band over this file isn’t any higher illustrated than by the three weeks that Stewart spent recording Gouldman, Godley, and Creme singing “ahhh” 16 occasions for every notice of the chromatic scale, increase a “choir” of 48 voices. Ultimately Creme steered that Stewart ought to create tape loops, these have been 12 ft in size elevating technical challenges of their very own.

Eric Stewart was impressed to jot down “I’m Not In Love” due to an opportunity comment by his spouse. “Gloria said to me one day, ‘you’ve stopped saying I love you.’ ‘Yes, but if I keep saying it, it would no longer have any meaning.’ While this was inconsequential banter between us, the notion stuck in my mind, and when I put the idea to my song-writing partner of a song which said ‘I’m not in love’ and then proceeded to give all the reasons why the singer was totally in love, he thought it was great.”

Initially Eric and Graham thought the tune can be a shuffle beat, Latin-tinged, quantity alongside the traces of “The Girl From Ipanema.” In the long run, it turned out very in another way. The backing monitor for the tune became one thing akin to the “wall of sound” and after they added the studio secretary saying “Big Boys don’t cry, be quiet, big boys don’t cry” in the course of the tune, they knew that they had one thing very particular.

“The appeal of the song,” in accordance with Eric, “is simple. It’s exactly what people want to say to their loved one. It’s become ‘our record’ to countless couples. Somehow it conveys that initial rush of pleasure that the four of us had when we recorded it.”

The Authentic Soundtrack got here out in March 1975 within the UK and “I’m Not In Love” was launched, first within the US, in early Might, making the Scorching 100 on Might 17 . It steadily climbed the charts till it made #2 on July 26, the place it stalled for 3 weeks, stored from No.1 by Van McCoy’s disco traditional, “The Hustle,” The Eagles and “One Of These Nights” and The Bee Gee’s “Jive Talkin” The only made the UK charts on the final day of Might and, a month later, it spent two weeks on the high.

10cc’s The Authentic Soundtrack could be purchased right here.