10cc singer-guitarist Gouldman, bassist Bernard Basso and drummer Kevin Godley, formerly of The Sabres with Creme). The Mockingbirds recorded five singles in 1965–66 without any success, before dissolving. The guitarist in both The Whirlwinds and The Mockingbirds was Stephen Jacobson, brother of well-known writer Howard Jacobson. In June 1967, Godley and Creme reunited and recorded a solitary single ("Seeing Things Green" b/w "Easy Life" on UK CBS) under the name "The Yellow Bellow Room Boom". In 1969, Gouldman took them to a Marmalade Records recording session. The boss Giorgio Gomelsky was impressed with Godley's falsetto voice and offered them a recording
Harvey Lisberg Katz. This was later reworked allowing Gouldman to return for a few months to record at Strawberry Studios providing both money and kudos for the studio. In 1969, Gouldman acquired a third of the shares in Strawberry and soon Kennedy Street would also become a stakeholder. Even if the sessions didn't yield much memorable musical output, they did bring Stewart, Gouldman, Godley and Creme together on various polyonymous pre-10cc vinyl incarnations, made in their own studio in provincial Stockport, UK, a new destination for international artists from Neil Sedaka to Joy Division. In 1970, as a sonic experiment to test