From the ashes of some of Manchester’s finest ’60s beat groups rose the ’70s art-rock behemoth that was 10cc. But not before they’d written, produced and recorded some of the most bizarre and eclectic pop records of the era.
DAVE THOMPSON looks inside the band’s self-constructed sonic playground, Strawberry Studios, with KEVIN GODLEY, GRAHAM GOULDMAN and ERIC STEWART and discovers hits, misses, football songs, bubblegum, bad curry and good hash