THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
154-10cc-I’m Not in Love.
1975-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 5.17.Band member Kevin Godley said,’Forget instruments,forget guitars,forget drums.Just voices,like a heavenly choir,like a tsunami of voices.’
The song incorporates a large wordless choir,which in fact are the voices of the group Graham Gouldman,Eric Stewart,Kevin Godley and Lol Creme.In the recording studio it was painstakingly built up from chord loops and multi tracks,some 256 vocal dubs were required to complete the lush harmonies behind Eric Stewart’s vocal.
Eric Stewart(see also best songs 663) got the idea for the song after his wife Gloria told him,’You don’t say I love you much anymore,’to which Stewart replied,’If I said it all the time it would sound glib.’Stewart wondered how he could say it without using those actual words,so ‘I’m Not in Love’ became a rhetorical conversation with himself and then a song.
The whispered vocals were provided by record company secretary Kathy Redfern. The band were looking for a certain sound when Redfern entered the studio to quietly tell Stewart he had a phone call.When he heard her voice he knew it was right for the song.
‘Be quiet,big boys don’t cry.’
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