Can't remember which one of the band but, one of 'em saw a tramp sitting underneath a billboard showing the advert the says 'I'm Mandy fly me' - the contrast struck him and hey presto the song followed... supposedly.
I really like this song ( really love the start). I heard this one the first time when i was 7-8. I dont remember what i was eating when i heard it but im pretty sure i stopped eating to listen to this if i was eating :D 10/10 10CC rocks
Music is my drug of choice. Especially well-written songs by 10cc, Kate Bush, Roxy Music. As a mid-twenties US nerd, this is back when music was creative and didn't suck.
hypnotic and unsettling yet beautiful - I keep telling those who'll listen that we haven't seen the likes of 10cc, Prefab Sprout, Supertramp and Floyd since those days but get told I should appreciate Cold Play and U2 etc but: I can tell style over substance.
Al about drugs ?..I thought this was about a flight on British airways ..their advert of the 70's featured a hostess welcoming you on board saying "Im mandy fly me .." oh well i was too busy listening to the music to do drugs..funny
I was a huge 10cc when I was a kid and I still love them. The young people of today make me laugh - they think everything is about drugs. Because they can't get by without them, they think nobody ever did.
Fenellaribena, it may be about drugs. But I blame the parents and the PC school teachers. Alowing their kids to watch violence on tv and awful video games, eat awful frozen microwave food and parents also to stressed out so let kids run amok and teachers, well, I say no more. kids need education, healthy food and loving parents then they can enjoy the fruits of life later in life and not loitering and spitting on street corners at 14yrs.
yeah... i mean im still pretty young, but i hate drugs SO much, i mean why do people take them when you can get a bigger thrill off of listening to a good song and just relaxing. i sure wish i was born in the 60s - 70s. would be awsome, but i was born into the time that this "rave" and "disco" had just kicked off, and i hate people at my high school who love sex, drugs at such an early age ...
Not necessarily. I don't do drugs . . . I listen to the lyrics! And why would the young people make you laugh??? It's extremely sad that you should think we can't get by without drugs - Myself and my friends revel in a clean, healthy lifestyle. :)
My all time favourite 10CC song this is. Amazing musical arrangements and rhythm changes and flawless lead vocals by Eric Stewart. If ever a miracle happened to mankind it was that this song never was a hit.
The most amazing song and vid at the time but the song was scarry and just lived the song givin it I was some where in the 1900 ok 1999 but some where there x
Amazing song. As complex as the most ambitious prog rock of the early 70s, and yet every second is pure pop. There aren't many people who can pull that one off.
RickTransit, I've always felt the same paradox with this song! Is it pop-friendly prog-rock? Or just VERY slick and sophisticated pop? I lean toward the former opinion...
It's inspired by a poster for Finnair that one band member saw in a window. 10cc always tried to write songs above the "I love you baby" meme... sometimes a little pretentiously.
Ive often heard her jingle,its never struck a chord.....with a smile as bright as sunshine she called me through the poster and welcomed me aboard......pure sex in lyric
This is when groups were groups and great songs were plentiful . None of todays drivel comes close to this and I don,t care who they are. Absolutely Brilliant !
Eric Stewart stated: American Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane. Now her name wasn't Mandy actually, it was something like, er, "I'm Cindy",
which was a quite sexual connotation as well, but I remember seeing in Manchester this beautiful poster and just below it was this tramp, I mean a serious tramp, quite a raggedy guy, looking up at this girl, and I thought God, do you know, there's a song there.
most in the beginning with the guitar, but i't's great not to be the only girl who is 13, and likes rock music from the 70's and to now. - i'm not saying that this song is rock at all.
No of course not. That comment is total rubbish. At the time, before you were born is suspect, an airline had an ad campaign to try and get people to fly with them. They used young women who would look at the camera and would wink and smile a lot and say direct to camera "Im Mandy fly me". The great 10cc simply wrote a song about that. That's it - there is no hidden message at all.
No, you're wrong. They were inspired by that advert but the song was written while on a acid trip in which they watched that commercial. If you had ever taken Acid or knew someone who can verify the story like I do, you'd know that. It was the 70's dude!
There aren't many people in Zavvi now, lol, and i've heard of them for a long time..went and saw the remaining members play at the Cropredy festival last year and they were better than expected.
This is really one of the most beautiful songs I ever have heard, and it is from 1976 (before the disgusting DISCO-period) ! Thanks a lot! England at his best;-)
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I don't know what it is about this song that effected me so deeply. I was living in England when it came out and was absolutely blown away. Came back to the states and couldn't find it anywhere. For YEARS I looked for it and finally found it on the 'How dare you' CD. It is now on my iPod - a song I heard about 30 years ago. Now THAT'S staying power.
Again, I don't know why this songs haunts me so, it just does. It's absolutely beautiful.
I completely understand what you mean. I love this song as well. You can see how music and emotion are so close to one another. A certain song will take you back in time, and resurrect those feelings you had too.
Fuck, fuck, fuck! How can I choose??? Mandy, Une nuit a Paris, and I'm not in love." Great fucking songs. How can I pick one above the others? I can't.
Beautiful.Whatever happened to Eric Stewart(the real voice of 10cc)?Kevin Godley Lol Cream,Godley and Cream and also became directors of some of the best video clips of the 80's(including their own video for Cry),Graham Gouldman teamed up with Andrew Gold(Building a bridge to your heart,remember that?)but what happend to Eric?He's not dead or something is he?
i dont think so. he and gouldman carried on 10cc for a few years of course, but i think he more or less retired from it all. wasnt he badly injured in a car accident back in the late 70's?
Think maybe you're right,do kinda have a vague memory of something like that happening to Eric,or is my confused memory thinking about Bolan?I do remember though that he was in the Mindbenders before 10cc.Q.What bands were the others in before 10cc?Dontcha love rock'n'Roll trivia?
Eric released a solo album "Do Not Bend" in April 2003 and has another album "Viva La Difference" due to be released this month. He has an official website - ericstewart 'dot' uk 'dot' com - there are numerous photographs as well as information about Eric.
Don't think this is a drugs song at all, even though it's pretty trippy - I think it's about a ghost of an air hostess! Come to think of it, maybe it is a drug induced reverie after all. It's one of the best songs of the seventies anyway! I saw Graham Gouldman's 10CC live this Summer and was blown away by how good they were, even though he was the only original member, the sound was very accurate.
I think you are totally right.This is their second best only after to " I'm not in love ". As for 10cc , I would dare to say it's one of the best groups of the 70's. Not phony at all,with a lasting sound,with great songs and entertaining/satirical attitude. Unfortunetly underrated ,it's a pleasure to see them live , even today I suppose...
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. A member sent me a link to this video, one I've been hunting for since YouTube was born. I was absolutely mesmorized by this song when it was introduced on Top of the Pops in late spring of 1976. It was #1 for weeks. We moved back to the U.S. and I couldn't find it. I searched for years and years and found it on a 10CC CD. It now has a honored place on my iPod. I NEVER get tired of it. There is something about this song that seems to move me spiritually inside.
My mention of Donna, Rubber Bullets & Dreadlock Holiday was because they are all pretty lightweight, quirky, popsicle tunes, yet Mandy, Art for Art's Sake and I'm not in Love are all brilliant.
If you ever heard their albums, you'd know that they contained many songs that could have been great singles. Too many, if anything.
They were proper musicians and proper poets/lyricists.
I ain't got shares in 10cc and they ain't the best band in the world.
always liked 10cc takes me back to a better time when things were great, summers were hotter, winters had snow and..oh gotta go the pips have gone.................
a band that put the 'pomp' into pomposity.....apart from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and, of course, Anarchy('yawn, yawn,luv') In The UK by 'Macolm Mc'Larens Pistols'!!......don't get me tsarted on the Clash...have you got this Mandy's phone number by the way....?
Oh, get a life. They weren't rying to do "Dark Side of the Moon". They were a set of musicians (2 American, 2 English) that were playing, having fun making money and getting laid. How can you call them pompous (I assume you mean pretentious) when they happily brought out "Donna", "Rubber Bullets" and "Dreadlock Holiday"?
They also brought out "Art for Art's Sake", this one "I'm Mandy...."and the unforgettable "I'm not in Love".
So, what exactly is YOUR contribution to popular music? Twat.
What ever the crap about drugs - which definitly had a part to play then - I know I'm that old -but the guitar sequence is one of the best. Put your headphones on and turn up the volume and blow your brains. My sister could tell your more about them than any of you would know
Its not about the lyrics, Procol Harum's ~ 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' in 1967 lyrics make no sence but its still a brilliant song with a great tune, like this 10cc classic (:
Stop banging on about hidden meanings, will ya. Eric Stewart had a mate by the name of Andy Flimey, but he didn't want to appear GAY and so he changed the title, slightly. Andy is a nice boy who lives with his sister in Parbold. Or did I just dream that Jonathan King told me that while bumming a tramp under a poster of Lou Reed being fingered by a gang of Punks in Pan Am uniforms. Who nows?
for a start, 'rolling stones' aren't 'outside' 'looking in' in any real sense of the meaning of such words anyone with a functionning brain might ascribe to them, words.....
This is sure bloody brilliant. These guys were geniuses who poked fun at "pop" music with sophisticated "pop" music. BTW, 10cc is the amount of semen in the average male ejaculation, just to give you an idea of their sense of humour. The acoustic bypass (this simulates the plane crashing in the song) is just too brilliant to totally understand. This is great stuff, people. Music like this will never be made again. Enjoy and thanks for sharing this!
That story of the how their name came about is an urban myth. When Jonathan King signed them, they didn't have a name; he'd previously had a dream in which he saw "10cc, the greatest band in the world" on a banner over the Hammersmith Odeon and at his suggestion they used that name. That is the true story.
Thanks for that i Genuinely didn't know that , now please don't go blowing another Myth and tell me 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed isn't about Heroin addiction ??? Seriously though Thanks Bro
I'm no Lou Reed expert, but I can tell you that "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" is not drug-related as a lot of comments on here suggest. The 10cc fan club website has a transcript of a radio interview with Eric Stewart (listed under articles / "I write the songs"), in which Eric tells the story behind the most well known songs he wrote. "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" was written after Eric saw a tramp looking at a billboard advertisement for American Airlines, which had the slogan "I'm Cindy ... Fly Me".
hey jamesmiller: google Eric Stewart's official website. He has a Q&A section where he answers this question. He saw a poster in an airport with a beautiful stewardess saying, "hi, I'm Debby, fly me". A tramp was sitting by it and he started imagining the tramp going into the looking glass so to speak...his Q&A section is amazing to read, and you wouldn't believe all the info. in wikipedia about 10cc.
Whenever it was, Britsh Airways or whatever they were called then had ad campiagn projecting their trolly dollies and how they would look after punters during the flight. They called the girl fronting it up 'Mandy'. She would be shown on the TV saying I' Mandy - fly me - hence...........
The 'ding-dong' reminds me of my old door bell - every time my lovely little dog heard this song he'd run for the door. Brings back memories that jolt my heart. Wonderful song and their finest.
Can't remember which one of the band but, one of 'em saw a tramp sitting underneath a billboard showing the advert the says 'I'm Mandy fly me' - the contrast struck him and hey presto the song followed... supposedly.
tony121s 2 years ago
O mandy remeber me from the late 80,s yes you flu me behined my back ?
sunflyen 2 years ago
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One of Britain's finest Black Groups...
Isleofskye 2 years ago
they loo pretty black to me?? And so funky?!! :-)
mrklunk 2 years ago
Calm down lads, we've all had a drink!
lolabeaz 2 years ago
Jesus! The shit they play nowdays!
ChillRing 2 years ago
Yeah this is what Coldplay wants to
be, but they're not capable of it, Radiohead owes these guys a debt too.
17865329 2 years ago
totally agree!
ChillRing 2 years ago
I really like this song ( really love the start). I heard this one the first time when i was 7-8. I dont remember what i was eating when i heard it but im pretty sure i stopped eating to listen to this if i was eating :D 10/10 10CC rocks
yurf9 2 years ago
Inded "darganx", it's 10CC's Bohemiam Rhopsody.
Great chord-changes and lyrics.
Classic.
Can't see anyone doing a Ryanair version of this one hey? .-)
oldmanc2 2 years ago
Listening to it again, there's a little influence of Abbey Road here.
Sounds like 3 songs i one..
darganx 2 years ago
Also, 10cc's answer to Bohemian Rhapsody.
darganx 2 years ago
Abbey Road, CS&N, many influences, but uniquely 10 cc
traceykalil 2 years ago
Whenever I hear this song I am stuck in the timewarp that is quintessentially 1976...
the first time I heard this record was getting ready for primary school at the breakfast table while my Mum was serving me Shreddies with hot milk..
a dark morning with only candlelight in the house - no electricity, they'd gone on strike. Even if there was, there was no TV - they'd gone on strike!
So from a battery-powered radio this song booms out, and sticks in my psyche.
darganx 2 years ago 4
Anytime I even LOOK at a box of Shreddies, I think of that moment.
darganx 2 years ago 2
This conjures up memories of a wonderful summer - we were working on a big contract at the time and this seemed to be on the radio all the time!
Terrific - thank you.
goldieken 2 years ago
Music is my drug of choice. Especially well-written songs by 10cc, Kate Bush, Roxy Music. As a mid-twenties US nerd, this is back when music was creative and didn't suck.
Neptuneman07 2 years ago 5
hypnotic and unsettling yet beautiful - I keep telling those who'll listen that we haven't seen the likes of 10cc, Prefab Sprout, Supertramp and Floyd since those days but get told I should appreciate Cold Play and U2 etc but: I can tell style over substance.
cleckheaton 2 years ago 6
the melody that begins the song is one of the saddest i can think of in all pop music
GriefTourist 2 years ago 5
This is so brill
TheeAlmightyDread 2 years ago 3
Al about drugs ?..I thought this was about a flight on British airways ..their advert of the 70's featured a hostess welcoming you on board saying "Im mandy fly me .." oh well i was too busy listening to the music to do drugs..funny
klnine 2 years ago 5
I was a huge 10cc when I was a kid and I still love them. The young people of today make me laugh - they think everything is about drugs. Because they can't get by without them, they think nobody ever did.
Fenellaribena 2 years ago 6
Fenellaribena, it may be about drugs. But I blame the parents and the PC school teachers. Alowing their kids to watch violence on tv and awful video games, eat awful frozen microwave food and parents also to stressed out so let kids run amok and teachers, well, I say no more. kids need education, healthy food and loving parents then they can enjoy the fruits of life later in life and not loitering and spitting on street corners at 14yrs.
cjjloveseverybody 2 years ago
yeah... i mean im still pretty young, but i hate drugs SO much, i mean why do people take them when you can get a bigger thrill off of listening to a good song and just relaxing. i sure wish i was born in the 60s - 70s. would be awsome, but i was born into the time that this "rave" and "disco" had just kicked off, and i hate people at my high school who love sex, drugs at such an early age ...
SkatingInGlasgow 2 years ago
Not necessarily. I don't do drugs . . . I listen to the lyrics! And why would the young people make you laugh??? It's extremely sad that you should think we can't get by without drugs - Myself and my friends revel in a clean, healthy lifestyle. :)
9ihsanp9 2 years ago
Pure genius!
accuristau 2 years ago
What an absolute monster song!!!! i havent heard it since i was a kid...
Regardless of what the interpretation of the song is, its stil awesome!!!!
Appreciate good music for what it is...
Tonzeff 2 years ago
My all time favourite 10CC song this is. Amazing musical arrangements and rhythm changes and flawless lead vocals by Eric Stewart. If ever a miracle happened to mankind it was that this song never was a hit.
ruudeng1 2 years ago
Very surreal...as usual for 10cc...They were such an excellent band,you know...
Dreddloxx 2 years ago
The best for me is the guitar part ...
tubemichi 2 years ago
Sounds like about 10 tracks of guitar. wonderful.
MisterNiles 2 years ago
This band always had a great dreamlike quality to thier music,, i wish they had done more,,
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pkthedude 2 years ago
true story of a guy after a plane crash
amazing song!!!!!
cypriotblue 2 years ago
The most amazing song and vid at the time but the song was scarry and just lived the song givin it I was some where in the 1900 ok 1999 but some where there x
chairleader1 2 years ago 2
Amazing song. As complex as the most ambitious prog rock of the early 70s, and yet every second is pure pop. There aren't many people who can pull that one off.
RickTransit 2 years ago 4
RickTransit, I've always felt the same paradox with this song! Is it pop-friendly prog-rock? Or just VERY slick and sophisticated pop? I lean toward the former opinion...
hnorky 2 years ago
Oh my goodness! I haven't heard this song in 30 years and I still love it...... Brings back some memories! What a GREAT song.... what a great band!
IaMoDiNaRy 2 years ago 2
what a harmonic sound of the 70's
Love it !!
mobyboy 2 years ago 3
just an amazing song so many parts...the most underated underapprecited band...
zuck21 2 years ago 5
i love these guys - don't know shit about them except for the fact that someone in this band created the guitar synth!
10 cc is also a hit of LSD right? i know i am ignorant, so please forgive me.
yet, i love these songs ( not just the hits )
cheers -h
THENAKEDBEACH 2 years ago
the story i heard was that 10cc is the average amount of jizz a guy produces.....any more than that and she'll drown :)
wirejacker 2 years ago
the guitar interlude is awesome
punchyjoe 2 years ago
Runs exactly for 1 minute
nobbynemo 2 years ago
Sorry about all the spelling mistakes got completely carried away listening again at full volume
vivienne199 2 years ago
Having listend to all the different versions this is the one I remember Absolutley bloody brilliant
vivienne199 2 years ago
brilliant group,they made some great songs.
hardtoesxplain 2 years ago 6
soft sound of the 70's - no substitutde for that !
mobyboy 2 years ago 3
VERY BEAUTIFUL
lakshmiluvsvishnu 2 years ago 3
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VERY CHEESEY
MotownShaker 2 years ago
It's inspired by a poster for Finnair that one band member saw in a window. 10cc always tried to write songs above the "I love you baby" meme... sometimes a little pretentiously.
Tobacc0 2 years ago
Great song - just found out it's all about taking a drug - MANDY IS A DRUG!! Now i'm depressed and i need drugs - GUTTED!
foz51 2 years ago
One of my favourite songs, almost makes me cry towards the end........so brilliant...great lyrics, great production, what a vocal peformance.....
it has the trademark 10cc sounds, perfect, and bigger than the sum of it's parts
what a cool band they were....
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Ive often heard her jingle,its never struck a chord.....with a smile as bright as sunshine she called me through the poster and welcomed me aboard......pure sex in lyric
funkdevoid 2 years ago
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funkdevoid 2 years ago
for my money,up there with the best singles ever made by anyone.
cosmicwarrior287 2 years ago 6
Classic my fav song by 10cc
1oxymoron1 2 years ago 3
guitar licks like no other!
Paulieford 2 years ago 2
was this the last album that godley and creme worked on as part of 10cc?
gsf67 2 years ago
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JohnnyShocker 2 years ago
Yes it was
JohnnyShocker 2 years ago
10cc were one of the best group` s of the 70`s , so glad i saw them play live in there hayday , FANTASTIC !
chattysteve 2 years ago
2.29 - 3.09. One of the best guitarrifs in pophistory
arnopeter 2 years ago
absolute classic, timeless.
slippycbr 2 years ago 2
I'm Mandy, Fly Me. . .
Holy Mandrax, Batman, we have to get on that plane. . .
Eartha Kit wasn't too bad as catwoman. . .
Who played the younger "Catwoman"?. . .
Great song, really good band. . . I like cute air hostesses; is that bad?
dippywatcher 2 years ago
i am juuukka fly me
juuukka2 2 years ago
Easily the best thing ,in my humble opinion , that 10CC ever ever did! WHAT A SONG!!!
gfrkiss 2 years ago
This is when groups were groups and great songs were plentiful . None of todays drivel comes close to this and I don,t care who they are. Absolutely Brilliant !
JohnMcCash 2 years ago 4
The campaign was actually run by National Airlines in 1971.The names changed depending on which stewardess was used in the photo.
Many tried to get the ads stopped.This was the beginning on the womens lib movement.
The song however was and is excellent.
xxxxxxxxxxhardy 2 years ago
Excelente tema y gran diseño del disco, creo recordar que a cargo de Hipgnosis, quienes también trabajaron para Genesis y Pink Floyd ,entre otros.
breizand 2 years ago
GREAT!!!
Manegi2 2 years ago 2
Mandy=Mandrax=Quaaludes.
And someone said High? I'm Mandy. Fly me.
juicyfuit 2 years ago
I don't really think that's what this song is about.
bartleby2007 2 years ago
Eric Stewart stated: American Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane. Now her name wasn't Mandy actually, it was something like, er, "I'm Cindy",
which was a quite sexual connotation as well, but I remember seeing in Manchester this beautiful poster and just below it was this tramp, I mean a serious tramp, quite a raggedy guy, looking up at this girl, and I thought God, do you know, there's a song there.
pattyheno 2 years ago
nog steeds een super nummer
teet555 2 years ago
Why did you cut the Clockwork Creep start off?
Manegi2 2 years ago
This is the single version methinks....
beebfader 2 years ago
come on and fly me baby lol :P
right aboard mandy airlines ;)
your cruise flight lol
your flight is my pleasure!
Mandy86lynn 3 years ago
thanks (:
vnubrunette 3 years ago
very nice, and beautiful.
most in the beginning with the guitar, but i't's great not to be the only girl who is 13, and likes rock music from the 70's and to now. - i'm not saying that this song is rock at all.
vnubrunette 3 years ago 4
You young lady have taste
guv07 3 years ago
Great song from a great group. One of the best acid trip descriptions ever written.
alden21 3 years ago
Is this actually a description of that?
9ihsanp9 3 years ago
No of course not. That comment is total rubbish. At the time, before you were born is suspect, an airline had an ad campaign to try and get people to fly with them. They used young women who would look at the camera and would wink and smile a lot and say direct to camera "Im Mandy fly me". The great 10cc simply wrote a song about that. That's it - there is no hidden message at all.
guv07 2 years ago
No, you're wrong. They were inspired by that advert but the song was written while on a acid trip in which they watched that commercial. If you had ever taken Acid or knew someone who can verify the story like I do, you'd know that. It was the 70's dude!
alden21 2 years ago
no aiden they weren't on drugs.
charmingasalways 2 years ago
Why is it that all druggies think EVRYTHING has something to do with drugs?
LScottATremblay 2 years ago
70's this, 70's that.... Something tells me you were born in the nineties
darganx 2 years ago
Nope, very early 60's.
alden21 2 years ago
Is this actually a description of that?
9ihsanp9 3 years ago
Best 10cc song ever!
Few people among my generation(17-20) have actually heard of 10cc! Includin a clerk in Zavvi!
9ihsanp9 3 years ago 2
There aren't many people in Zavvi now, lol, and i've heard of them for a long time..went and saw the remaining members play at the Cropredy festival last year and they were better than expected.
Northfleetjoe 2 years ago
This is really one of the most beautiful songs I ever have heard, and it is from 1976 (before the disgusting DISCO-period) ! Thanks a lot! England at his best;-)
ludo281160 3 years ago 3
Mandy crossed my mind to as I watched the rescue footage.
darkrt2 3 years ago
Mandy was there on the Hudson river!
Cursorkeys 3 years ago 3
yeaa thats is very good hits from 10cc.
Niels741 3 years ago
Nice one-thank you
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valentinebaby73 3 years ago
I don't know what it is about this song that effected me so deeply. I was living in England when it came out and was absolutely blown away. Came back to the states and couldn't find it anywhere. For YEARS I looked for it and finally found it on the 'How dare you' CD. It is now on my iPod - a song I heard about 30 years ago. Now THAT'S staying power.
Again, I don't know why this songs haunts me so, it just does. It's absolutely beautiful.
secondchapter 3 years ago
I completely understand what you mean. I love this song as well. You can see how music and emotion are so close to one another. A certain song will take you back in time, and resurrect those feelings you had too.
ralucagymnast 2 years ago
What a lifetime in this song...Fantastic, but were is Mandy? Kids on here own I suppose! 5 stars upon this one.
ludo281160 3 years ago 2
Love the bridge!
Buttons61 3 years ago
"She read me like a book
But I'm hiding in the small print" :)
PeterVonRock 3 years ago
Fuck, fuck, fuck! How can I choose??? Mandy, Une nuit a Paris, and I'm not in love." Great fucking songs. How can I pick one above the others? I can't.
I love these guys.
bdf2718 3 years ago
Doesn't Eric look vaugely like Mickey Dolenz?
spizzardo 3 years ago
No, he doesn't
okkith64 3 years ago
whatever
spizzardo 3 years ago
Beautiful.Whatever happened to Eric Stewart(the real voice of 10cc)?Kevin Godley Lol Cream,Godley and Cream and also became directors of some of the best video clips of the 80's(including their own video for Cry),Graham Gouldman teamed up with Andrew Gold(Building a bridge to your heart,remember that?)but what happend to Eric?He's not dead or something is he?
spizzardo 3 years ago
i dont think so. he and gouldman carried on 10cc for a few years of course, but i think he more or less retired from it all. wasnt he badly injured in a car accident back in the late 70's?
dermotoblong 3 years ago
Think maybe you're right,do kinda have a vague memory of something like that happening to Eric,or is my confused memory thinking about Bolan?I do remember though that he was in the Mindbenders before 10cc.Q.What bands were the others in before 10cc?Dontcha love rock'n'Roll trivia?
spizzardo 3 years ago
Eric released a solo album "Do Not Bend" in April 2003 and has another album "Viva La Difference" due to be released this month. He has an official website - ericstewart 'dot' uk 'dot' com - there are numerous photographs as well as information about Eric.
magnolia0245 3 years ago
I love songs with a narrative. Great story, great singing, great playing. These guys are straight stone cold pimps.
babylowen 3 years ago
hi im mandy love this song and many more by 10cc
ajpuckering 3 years ago 2
It's about a plane crash...after all there's an excerpt of Clockwork Creep which is about a bomb.
JimReaper2007 3 years ago 3
im mandy.fly me.
dryna43 3 years ago
Fantastic sound this, and you can even understand all the words. My favorite piece by 10cc.
cjjloveseverybody 3 years ago 9
Don't think this is a drugs song at all, even though it's pretty trippy - I think it's about a ghost of an air hostess! Come to think of it, maybe it is a drug induced reverie after all. It's one of the best songs of the seventies anyway! I saw Graham Gouldman's 10CC live this Summer and was blown away by how good they were, even though he was the only original member, the sound was very accurate.
WilburyVision 3 years ago 5
I think you are totally right.This is their second best only after to " I'm not in love ". As for 10cc , I would dare to say it's one of the best groups of the 70's. Not phony at all,with a lasting sound,with great songs and entertaining/satirical attitude. Unfortunetly underrated ,it's a pleasure to see them live , even today I suppose...
aledelig 3 years ago
still cool......
HotSummerof1976 3 years ago 3
The guitar part is sensationell!!!
tubemichi 3 years ago 6
Haha Of course it's a drug song. And it sounds like he had an interesting "trip"
londonboy82 3 years ago
ha ha the good old days sex DRUGS en more DRUGS HELL YES I LOVE IT
hassebas55 3 years ago 3
Drug song or not, this song got me hooked on 10cc. Totally mind-blowing. Who need drugs with a song like this?
PeterVonRock 3 years ago
I always thought the song was about a plane crash!!
What did I know???
GeneHunt1973 3 years ago
Thanks for posting. From a classic LP.
stumptown123 3 years ago
what can i say..
tenerife134 3 years ago
Wonderful song!
helltopo 3 years ago
i'm feeling this man
BIGEDZ1981 3 years ago
Is this not just 10cc finest moment.............a classic
feckthedeez 3 years ago
can i just say they were all english
delphiboo 3 years ago 2
Sorry mate, dunno what band i was thinking of. You're right. I was wrong. But so are you. They are all ENGLISH - not British.
But I confess to being more wrong than you, so hats off to ya for pointing it out.
5ebD 3 years ago
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. A member sent me a link to this video, one I've been hunting for since YouTube was born. I was absolutely mesmorized by this song when it was introduced on Top of the Pops in late spring of 1976. It was #1 for weeks. We moved back to the U.S. and I couldn't find it. I searched for years and years and found it on a 10CC CD. It now has a honored place on my iPod. I NEVER get tired of it. There is something about this song that seems to move me spiritually inside.
secondchapter 3 years ago
This is an amazing, out-of-this world song.
jimbo161921 3 years ago 3
The guitars are awesome on this one.
garylq 3 years ago 3
My mention of Donna, Rubber Bullets & Dreadlock Holiday was because they are all pretty lightweight, quirky, popsicle tunes, yet Mandy, Art for Art's Sake and I'm not in Love are all brilliant.
If you ever heard their albums, you'd know that they contained many songs that could have been great singles. Too many, if anything.
They were proper musicians and proper poets/lyricists.
I ain't got shares in 10cc and they ain't the best band in the world.
But they were GOOD.
Thanks for responding.
5ebD 3 years ago 2
Gouldman has a fro.
FritzOmnibus 3 years ago
still sounds awesome !
gtbloke 3 years ago 3
I do love this song.
nandud 3 years ago
I saw her walking on the water
As the sharks were comin' for me
I felt Mandy pull me up give me the kiss of life
Just like the girl in Dr. No No No No
What more can you say. classic lines.
izabelgoudie 3 years ago 7
always liked 10cc takes me back to a better time when things were great, summers were hotter, winters had snow and..oh gotta go the pips have gone.................
tonyw951 3 years ago 5
thats so true, i couldnt of put it better!
hammy1306 3 years ago
nobbyhitler your name says it all,idiot.
hardtoesxplain 3 years ago 2
Simply a great song.
barryturner123 3 years ago 2
a band that put the 'pomp' into pomposity.....apart from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and, of course, Anarchy('yawn, yawn,luv') In The UK by 'Macolm Mc'Larens Pistols'!!......don't get me tsarted on the Clash...have you got this Mandy's phone number by the way....?
MaleMidLifer 3 years ago 2
Oh, get a life. They weren't rying to do "Dark Side of the Moon". They were a set of musicians (2 American, 2 English) that were playing, having fun making money and getting laid. How can you call them pompous (I assume you mean pretentious) when they happily brought out "Donna", "Rubber Bullets" and "Dreadlock Holiday"?
They also brought out "Art for Art's Sake", this one "I'm Mandy...."and the unforgettable "I'm not in Love".
So, what exactly is YOUR contribution to popular music? Twat.
5ebD 3 years ago
That was meant to be a reply to the post by MaleMidLifer. Not to everyone.
Shucks.
5ebD 3 years ago
Not too sure about 'Rubber Bullets', but the others are absolute classics.
brentfordbrian 3 years ago
thank God, Godley and Cream went off and made lots of money making awful videos!
MaleMidLifer 3 years ago 2
What ever the crap about drugs - which definitly had a part to play then - I know I'm that old -but the guitar sequence is one of the best. Put your headphones on and turn up the volume and blow your brains. My sister could tell your more about them than any of you would know
vivienne199 3 years ago
Its not about the lyrics, Procol Harum's ~ 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' in 1967 lyrics make no sence but its still a brilliant song with a great tune, like this 10cc classic (:
Lockett552 3 years ago 3
Stop banging on about hidden meanings, will ya. Eric Stewart had a mate by the name of Andy Flimey, but he didn't want to appear GAY and so he changed the title, slightly. Andy is a nice boy who lives with his sister in Parbold. Or did I just dream that Jonathan King told me that while bumming a tramp under a poster of Lou Reed being fingered by a gang of Punks in Pan Am uniforms. Who nows?
niceyumyum 3 years ago
LET'S DE-CONSTRUCT 10cc's lyrics!
"just like a rolling stone,
I'm outside looking in"
for a start, 'rolling stones' aren't 'outside' 'looking in' in any real sense of the meaning of such words anyone with a functionning brain might ascribe to them, words.....
NobbyHitler 3 years ago
"Papa was a Rolling Stone" -- would that link with the tramp mentioned in the radio interview? Anyhow, It's a great tune!
jimbo161921 3 years ago
thank God punk came along in 1976 to blow away well-constructed, tuneful, ironic pop like this and give us Anarchy in the UK, you squares, daddyo!
NobbyHitler 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
no its about drug addiction, addiction to a drug nicknamed "mandies"
bongobeef 3 years ago
"very nice music in the start".. I'Mandy - fly me ! [very cool]
yurf9 3 years ago
absolute quality
dermotoblong 3 years ago 2
This is sure bloody brilliant. These guys were geniuses who poked fun at "pop" music with sophisticated "pop" music. BTW, 10cc is the amount of semen in the average male ejaculation, just to give you an idea of their sense of humour. The acoustic bypass (this simulates the plane crashing in the song) is just too brilliant to totally understand. This is great stuff, people. Music like this will never be made again. Enjoy and thanks for sharing this!
gurpst 3 years ago 4
That story of the how their name came about is an urban myth. When Jonathan King signed them, they didn't have a name; he'd previously had a dream in which he saw "10cc, the greatest band in the world" on a banner over the Hammersmith Odeon and at his suggestion they used that name. That is the true story.
magnolia0245 3 years ago 2
To magnolia0245
Thanks for that i Genuinely didn't know that , now please don't go blowing another Myth and tell me 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed isn't about Heroin addiction ??? Seriously though Thanks Bro
pkthedude 3 years ago
I'm no Lou Reed expert, but I can tell you that "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" is not drug-related as a lot of comments on here suggest. The 10cc fan club website has a transcript of a radio interview with Eric Stewart (listed under articles / "I write the songs"), in which Eric tells the story behind the most well known songs he wrote. "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" was written after Eric saw a tramp looking at a billboard advertisement for American Airlines, which had the slogan "I'm Cindy ... Fly Me".
magnolia0245 3 years ago 2
Takes me back to innocent days of the 70's. Wish I had a time machine!!
uncleambient 3 years ago
The inspiration was a jingle at an advertisement for a airline company.
mrbean26 3 years ago
Wasn't it the now defunct Pan Am?
ZincBoss 3 years ago 3
I love this song, but really want to know what the lyrics are about? Does anybody know what the inspiration is?
jamesmillerandmiller 3 years ago
Sometimes, a song is just a song.
RealUnimportant 3 years ago
A air hostess in a plane crash I suppose.
LollieSmith 3 years ago
hey jamesmiller: google Eric Stewart's official website. He has a Q&A section where he answers this question. He saw a poster in an airport with a beautiful stewardess saying, "hi, I'm Debby, fly me". A tramp was sitting by it and he started imagining the tramp going into the looking glass so to speak...his Q&A section is amazing to read, and you wouldn't believe all the info. in wikipedia about 10cc.
salee320 3 years ago
Whenever it was, Britsh Airways or whatever they were called then had ad campiagn projecting their trolly dollies and how they would look after punters during the flight. They called the girl fronting it up 'Mandy'. She would be shown on the TV saying I' Mandy - fly me - hence...........
guv07 3 years ago 2
You're right guv o7, I can remember those adds; I am that old!!
uncleambient 3 years ago
me :-)
mandyvan 3 years ago 2
The 'ding-dong' reminds me of my old door bell - every time my lovely little dog heard this song he'd run for the door. Brings back memories that jolt my heart. Wonderful song and their finest.
mi1964amigo 3 years ago 2
oh to be 14 again thanks
pianohbc 4 years ago 2
same here !!!
spankyqqq 3 years ago
Excellent love 10cc
madaboutrock 4 years ago 2
First time I see all of 10cc with guitars.
Even Kevin!
Myidolswere10cc 4 years ago
One of the best 70s guitar solos
Cayke1 4 years ago