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
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