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
10cc Alone" by The Crowd in aid of the Bradford City stadium fire. Released in 1985, the single reached No.1 in the UK charts. Reflecting that he and Gold might have been too old by the eighties, Gouldman invariably called his relationship with Gold one of the happiest of his life.. A compilation album "Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme" was released in 1987 and gave the band their biggest hit album since 1978. A four CD box set, "Greatest Songs and More" was issued in Japan in 1991, which included many b-sides available on