GODLEY & CREME

Parts Of The Process: The Complete Godley & Creme DEMON-EDSEL

CHRIS ROBERTS

The weird, wonderful world of perverse polymath pair. When Godley & Creme premièred their 1977 debut concept album Consequences to their record company at a church in Amsterdam, several of the sales team fell asleep before the halfway mark. At just shy of two hours, that baffling, indulgent folly remains one of the most impenetrable records created by people who were nominally pop stars, having bossed much of the decade as half of the inventive yet usually accessible 10cc. “It’s almost as if they were erratic, wilful geniuses.” The duo’s decision to bet the farm on this peculiar passion project was ridiculed as they emerged blinking from 18 months in the studio to find Britain had gone punk, and the last thing it wanted was what Kevin Godley later described…

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