10CC Topped The UK Single Charts With ‘I’M NOT IN LOVE’ 50 Years Ago Today
1 July 2025
British rockers 10CC scored their biggest hit with
I’M NOT IN LOVE (almost 400 million streams on
Spotify).
It topped the UK Charts on 1 July 1975, today 50 years ago.
It became the second of the group’s three No.1 singles in the UK and peaked
at No.2 in the US. The song’s writer Eric Stewart created loops of about 12 feet
in length and spent three weeks recording the band singing “ah” 16 times for
each note of the chromatic scale, building up a “choir” of 48 voices for each
note of the scale.
Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk resulting in the constant background of vocals heard throughout the song. Wowzers.
