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
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