Rod Stewart (and indeed became lifelong friends), and legendary impresario Giorgio Gomelsky put together Steampacket, which featured Baldry, Stewart, Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll, Micky Waller, Vic Briggs and Ricky Fenson; their first appearance was in support of The Rolling Stones in July 1965. The group was conceived as a white soul revue, analogous to The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, with multiple vocalists and styles ranging from jazz to R & B to blues. Steampacket toured with the Stones and The Walker Brothers that summer, ending in the London Palladium; seeing the audience react to the Stones gave Stewart his first exposure
Graham Gouldman chart success, and 1983's "Windows in the Jungle" became the last 10cc album for almost a decade. In 1979, Gouldman scored a minor hit with his single "Sunburn", written for the Farrah Fawcett / Charles Grodin film of the same name. Two years later he produced the "Pleasant Dreams" album for the Ramones. Between 1984 and 1990, Gouldman teamed with American singer Andrew Gold, with whom he had co-written material in 1981, to form Wax. They produced four albums. Gold described how the partnership began: Gouldman, reflecting in 2018, later referred to his relationship with Gold as one of the