Wax - Common Knowledge (CD)

All Music Guide

10cc might well have been the most brilliantly inventive British band of the 1970s but, by the 1980s, few people cared about that; neither did they raise an eyebrow when Graham Gouldman, fresh from the group's 1983 split, teamed with LA singer songwriter Andrew Gold in a new band, World In Action. An album was written and recorded, but when their first single "Don't Break My Heart" slipped straight into the dumper, they changed the name to Common Knowledge and tried again.

But "Victoria" was no more fortunate than its predecessor and, while the duo would remain together and (third time lucky) finally enjoy some success as Wax, the original album was shelved. It would be 15 years before it finally surfaced, padded out with two further songs from the same sessions ("Big Fat Baby" and "Heartbeat To Heartbeat") and three new songs ("Sometimes", the Stephen Bishop cowrite "Shanghai Moon" and "First Time In Love"), recorded at Gold's home studio in 1997/1998.