Sheet Music is the second album by Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 rock band 10cc

10cc

10cc are an English art rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians -- Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme -- who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the "10cc" name...

. It was released in 1974 and yielded the hit singles "The Wall Street Shuffle" and "Silly Love". The album reached No.9 in the UK and No.81 in the United States.

In a 2006 interview ex-drummer Kevin Godley

Kevin Godley

Kevin Godley is a British musician and music video director.He was born in a family of Jewish descent, and went to North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham....

 nominated Sheet Music as his favourite 10cc album to record. He said: "We’d really started to explode creatively and didn’t recognise any boundaries. We were buzzing on each other and exploring our joint and individual capabilities. Lots of excitement and energy at those sessions and, more important, an innocence that was open to anything."

Graham Gouldman has also expressed that he considers Sheet Music as the best 10cc album. In the 10ccworld website he writes: "Our best album, epitomising what 10cc was all about. Unique songwriting and production."

Side One

1. "The Wall Street Shuffle
   The Wall Street Shuffle
   "The Wall Street Shuffle" is a single by the British pop/rock band 10cc released in 1974. The song originally appears on the band's 1974 album Sheet Music and was the second single to be released from the album after "The Worst Band in the World." It was also the most successful single to be...
   
   " (Stewart, Gouldman) – 3:54
   • Lead vocal, lead guitar, piano, organ by Eric Stewart
2. "The Worst Band in the World" (Gouldman, Creme) – 2:49
   • Lead vocal, guitar, piano by Lol Creme
   • Lead guitar by Eric Stewart
3. "Hotel" (Godley, Creme) – 4:54
   • Lead vocal by Kevin Godley
   • First lead guitar, synthesiser by Lol Creme
   • Second lead guitar by Eric Stewart
4. "Old Wild Men" (Godley, Creme) – 3:21
   • First lead vocal, lead guitar, slide guitar by Eric Stewart
   • Second lead vocal by Kevin Godley
   • Guitar, synthesisers by Lol Creme
   • Tambourine, autoharp by Graham Gouldman
5. "Clockwork Creep" (Godley, Creme) – 2:46
   • Lead vocal, piano by Lol Creme

Side Two

1. "Silly Love" (Stewart, Creme) – 4:01
   • Lead vocal, guitar by Lol Creme
   • Lead guitar, piano, vocal by Eric Stewart
2. "Somewhere in Hollywood" (Godley, Creme) – 6:39
   • Lead vocal by Kevin Godley
   • Lead guitar, piano, synthesisers, vocal by Lol Creme
   • Slide guitar by Eric Stewart
3. "Baron Samedi" (Stewart, Gouldman) – 3:46
   • Lead vocal, lead guitar, electric piano, marimba by Eric Stewart
   • Second lead guitar, grand piano, mellotron, vocal by Lol Creme
   • Congas, bongos, vocal by Kevin Godley
4. "The Sacro-Iliac" (Godley, Gouldman) – 2:33
   • Lead vocal by Graham Gouldman
   • Harmony vocal by Kevin Godley
   • Piano by Lol Creme
   • Guitar by Eric Stewart
5. "Oh Effendi" (Stewart, Godley) – 2:49
   • Lead vocal by Kevin Godley
   • Lead guitar, vocal by Eric Stewart

Personnel

• Eric Stewart
  Eric Stewart
  Eric Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer most known for his tenure with The Mindbenders in the 1960s, and 10cc from 1972 to 1995....
  
   – guitars, keyboards, vocals
• Lol Creme
  Lol Crème
  Lol Creme is an English musician and music video director, best known for his work in 10cc. He sings, plays guitar and keyboards.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar, keyboards, percussion, vocals
• Graham Gouldman
  Graham Gouldman
  Graham Keith Gouldman is an English songwriter and musician who is a long-time member of British band 10cc.-Early life and 1960s pop career: 1946–1968:Gouldman was born in Broughton, Salford, England...
  
   – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, vocals
• Kevin Godley
  Kevin Godley
  Kevin Godley is a British musician and music video director.He was born in a family of Jewish descent, and went to North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham....
  
  – drums, percussion, vocals