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10cc’s Graham Gouldman: ‘Every West Indian person I’ve spoken to loves Dreadlock Holiday – but I wouldn’t write certain lines now’

As the 78-year-old star tours his latest solo LP, he answers your questions on his Everton terrace anthem, the making of I’m Not in Love and hosting Joey Ramone in Stockport

At that age, I was listening to Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, the Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and then guitar players like Hank Marvin with the Shadows. There wasn’t any negativity towards it at the time and every West Indian person I’ve spoken to about it has said they love it, but I don’t think we’d have written a line like: “I saw four faces, one mad, a brother from the gutter,” today. What initially caused it was that Kevin and Lol had started working on an album featuring “the gizmo”, an attachment to the guitar which made the strings vibrate constantly.

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