The Stockport Shuffle

"The Stockport Shuffle : Complete UK Label Anthology 1972-1974" is a comprehensive 6 CD + 1 BluRay box set overview of the 1st 2 albums by art pop titans 10cc. Featuring previously unissued alternative versions, album session highlights, outtakes, rehearsals and BBC recordings, and the BluRay includes live TV performances and Atmos mixes. With a 40 page booklet featuring rare photos, band quotes and a 7 000 word essay on the band's time at UK Records, "The Stockport Shuffle" is the early 10cc mother lode.

During their 2 year spell at Jonathan King's UK Records label, fledgling pop polymaths 10cc, all 4 of whom had served protracted apprenticeships on the Manchester music scene of the 60s, cut 2 widely acclaimed albums, "10cc" and "Sheet Music", as well as a handful of major hit singles that included "Donna", "The Wall Street Shuffle" and the chart topping "Rubber Bullets".

These recordings have been collected on numerous occasions over the last few decades, but finally the full, previously undocumented picture can be unveiled. With 6 CD's and a bonus BluRay of video performances and surround sound mixes, "The Stockport Shuffle" is a forensic, revelatory examination of the band's activities at their Strawberry Studios base in Stockport during the 1st 2 years of their existence.

Alongside remastered versions of both albums and numerous singles are a dazzling number of previously unissued multitrack highlights, featuring alternative versions, arrangements, lyrics, vocalists, as well as works in progress, studio chatter, isolated vocal tracks and discarded instrumental and vocal parts, BBC session recordings and Eric Stewart's 1974 mono only mixes for radio and TV use.

Grapefruit and Cherry Red Records, November 20th, 2026.