Godley and Creme - Under your Thumb

I know Kevin Godley was in 10cc, but was he also the lead singer with a group called The Maisonettes who had a hit about the same time called "Heartache Avenue" ?

They look and sound very similar.

Love 5cc, and 10cc too. Don't think these 2 were in the Mindbenders tho', just the other 5cc and Gouldman only near the end of the band. Godley and Creme were studio musicians who joined only for a couple of years and were always going to leave to do other things.

You're right, mate.. 10cc weren't a simple re-morphing of the Mindbenders..
I knew that, and should have stated so in my comment.

this has a real 1981 feel about it - it sounds like Depeche Mode or OMD or something. It has an 80s look too - the singer looks like the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Suttcliffe. I have not herd this song for 28 years, probo will not for another 28

Agreed, OMD or Ultravox could have done this rather than two members of 10cc. A bit of an odd one, about a woman committing suicide after meeting her ex partner.

I love this - a really quirky and original song. I agree with someone's comment earlier, that this has a particular 1981 sound to it. It wouldn't have sounded like this in 1980 or earlier and the style would have been different from 1982 onwards.

It sounds like Police - syncro or every ..something .. magic etc. You me and Glen must have been born in 1963!

I was born in 1968 and was 13 when this came out. It was very of its time.

I was 2 years old when this came out but I love early 80s music more than any other kind, especially bands like Japan and Talk Talk.

erm - I am 8 years old but love me erm Dad's music and that - Wham Duran Duran- Michael Jackson and all that - choose life etc