“I'm Not in Love” by 10cc

"I'm Not in Love" was the second single pulled from The Original Soundtrack, 10cc's third album, issued in Britain in May 1975, and its backing track is the marvel: a cloud built almost entirely out of their own voices, multitracked over and over. Eric Stewart wrote most of it with Graham Gouldman, answering his wife's complaint that he didn't tell her he loved her often enough.

It nearly didn't survive. Stewart first imagined it as a bossa nova on guitars, and Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were so unmoved that it was shelved, until the band's staff kept humming the tune around the studio. Stewart talked the others into another try, and Godley said it would only work if they tore it apart and made it with voices alone. It spent two weeks at number one in Britain, topped the charts in Canada and Ireland, and went top ten in America.

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