10cc – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonEven in the sprawling 1970s, 10cc were an odd fit. Too prog for glam, too pop for prog and too glam for pop, they sold themselves as an art band, but actually traded in subversive pastiche: the love song declaring they weren't in love, the airline ad jingle about a plane crash, the reggae song about being terrified of black people. It meant their legacy went little further than inspiring the parody pop of the Barron Knights, and pastiche, of course, dates 20 years faster...

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