It has been an eventful decade for Graham Gouldman. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in America – where fellow inductees include Burt Bacharach, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Leonard Cohen – in 2014 and received the BMI (Broadcast Music Inc) Icon Award the following year. In 2018 he joined Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band for tours across the US and Europe, while the 10cc live band he leads continues to sell-out some of the world’s top concert venues, including London’s Royal Albert Hall, Oslo Opera House and Amsterdam Coincertgebouw. Graham was born on 10 May 1946 in Manchester, England. He was given his first guitar at age eleven and started forming and working with local bands at age fifteen. Inspired by The Beatles, amongst others, and encouraged by his parents Betty and Hymie, who often helped him with lyrics and song titles, Graham started writing songs. He had his first hit as a songwriter in 1965 writing For Your Love for the Yardbirds. He also wrote their follow up hits Heart Full of Soul and Evil Hearted You. In the same year The Hollies recorded his song Look Through Any Window followed by Bus Stop in 1966 and No Milk Today for Herman’s Hermits. In 1972, along with Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, he formed 10cc and co-wrote many of their hits, including Rubber Bullets, Not In Love, The Things We Do For Love and Dreadlock Holiday. During the mid-‘80s Graham formed Wax with the late Andrew Gold, enjoying chart success in Europe with the hits Right Between The Eyes and Bridge To Your Heart. He released his third solo album Love And Work in 2012, a six-track CD Play Nicely And Share in 2017 and released the critically acclaimed solo album Modesty Forbids in March 2020. His latest project is the release of a single Floating In Heaven, a collaboration with Queen’s Brian May. The track was released on 12 July to coincide with the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. It was through Brian’s connections at NASA that the track is being used in conjunction with the telescope’s first images by the Space Telescope Science Institute.