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After more than 50 years with the group, drummer Paul Burgess has announced he is leaving 10cc. <\/p>\n
Burgess made the announcement after the group completed it\u2019s recent tour of the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving enjoyed many years with 10cc, I\u2019m sorry to say that for me the rigours of touring have become incommensurate with age, and it\u2019s time to put excessive hours spent waiting in airports and sitting on tour buses behind me,\u201d Burgess said in a statement to LouderSound.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI have no intention of retiring and will continue to play, but at a more agreeable pace, working with past associates and a new band of like-minded musicians, The Guilty Men,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Burgess has been a member of the group since 1973, when he replaced founding members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. He appears on several of the band\u2019s albums, including \u201cDeceptive Bends\u201d (1977), \u201cBloody Tourists\u201d (1978), and \u201cLook Hear?\u201d (1980).<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Paul and I started working together in 10cc, we never imagined in our wildest dreams that we would still be doing it even 30 years later, let alone 52,\u201d 10cc leader and co-founder Graham Gouldman said to LouderSound. \u201cPaul is my longest-running musical associate and it will be strange to turn around and see someone else on drums, but I can fully understand his desire to withdraw from sitting on a plane for 14 hours and then changing hotel each day for several weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to 10cc, Burgess has performed with such acts as Camel, Jethro Tull, Joan Armatrading and Gloria Gaynor. <\/p>\n The band\u2019s performance in Alexandria, Virginia, was his last concert with the group. <\/p>\n Ben Stone, who has worked with Mike + The Mechanics and Bonnie Tyler, will replace Burgess on percussion and drums.<\/p>\n Formed in 1972, 10cc is known for such songs as \u201cI\u2019m Not in Love,\u201d \u201cThe Things We Do for Love,\u201d and \u201cRubber Bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After more than 50 years with the group, drummer Paul Burgess has announced he is leaving 10cc. Burgess made the announcement after the group completed it\u2019s recent tour of the U.S. \u201cHaving enjoyed many years with 10cc, I\u2019m sorry to say that for me the rigours of touring have become incommensurate with age, and it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112702,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112701\/revisions\/2112702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}