Talk:I'm Not in Love

Talking part
The instrumental break featured the repeated spoken phrase: "Be quiet, big boys don't cry...", which was spoken by Kathy Warren, the receptionist of the Strawberry Studios where the band recorded the track. No comment


 * Has been moved per WP:RM. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 21:33, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Did Amy Grant sang did a cover version for the song too? I doubt it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.120.8.67 (talk) 23:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Scherrie Payne version
Whether stuning is meant to be stunning or not, it's POV. 86.129.121.237 17:17, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Remix-cover
Should "remix-cover" (last line) be "bootleg"? Miles.hayler (talk) 04:28, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Music video
I didn't see any mention of a 10cc music video, and don't have info about it. I ran across it today here: "10cc - I'm Not in Love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAa-7h977lo (This is not my YouTube channel, or one by anyone I know.) Was this an official video? Date? Pre-MTV? Misty MH (talk) 04:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I would be extremely surprised if any official video was ever made for this song – in the UK it's generally accepted that Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the first real promotional video made for a single, some six months after "I'm Not in Love" was released, but even after that promo videos were rare until around 1978–79. Richard3120 (talk) 06:22, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Could be, but when videos became popular, and there was somewhere to show them (MTV), lots of older songs were taken and made into music videos. One might argue that music videos have been around since films were made. :-D Misty MH (talk) 21:01, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * You are right, of course – as I said "Bohemian Rhapsody" is generally considered to be the UK's first music video deliberately made to be played along with the recorded version of the song, made to have something to show on Top of the Pops while the band were out of the country on tour, but there were certainly many music videos made before that to accompany performances of various songs... one of the most famous being the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love", filmed in a decorated studio with an audience in among them. I don't know if retrospective videos count as "official" ones, though. Richard3120 (talk) 22:49, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Single cover picture
Does anybody know where the heck the picture of the single used in the infobox for the 10cc version comes from? It certainly won't be from the UK or Ireland as singles in those countries were still released in plain sleeves at the time, without photographs. And it doesn't appear to be the US or Canada sleeve either. Richard3120 (talk) 06:26, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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INIL and the move to Mercury
The stories and anecdotes that pop and jazz musicians tell about "what happened behind the scenes" are notoriously shifting, even when they're about the same recording session. I'm Not in Love was certainly the song that "made it" for the band in a big way (and their first major international hit), and Stewart's story of how it impressed the people at Mercury Records could well be true, but in a tv documentary last year Gouldman (I think) told a different story. According to him, the band had wanted to move to Virgin Records and both Virgin and Phonogram had been in a bidding competition for them. While most of the band were on a vacation in the West Indies (not quite consistent with Stewart's assertion that "we were absolutely skint") their business agents and one or two from the band met with people from Virgin and Phonogram (in the UK, I think); they first decided for Virgin, but after the band member/s present had left and gone south, their agents had a look at the offer from Phonogram and decided, on their own, that this was a better one - and promptly signed the band to Phonogram for a five-album deal! :)

Obviously the band were not pleased, but there wasn't much they could do, and of course they would not have been keen to expose the rift between themselves and their business people in interviews after that. Note though, the story doesn't exclude that both labels may have heard I'm Not in Love before and been highly impressed by it. 195.67.149.162 (talk) 10:07, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It was Lol Creme, and it was in the BBC Four documentary I'm Not in Love: The Story of 10cc, originally broadcast in December 2015 but repeated on BBC Four in October 2018. This story is mentioned in the main article for 10cc and is probably the best place for it... we don't want the article for the song itself to get too bogged down in record company politics. 14:54, 31 January 2019 (UTC)Richard3120 (talk)

Fun Lovin Criminals cover?
No mention of it? 46.161.115.171 (talk) 21:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Dudette.
 * Unless a reliable publication has discussed it in detail, no – it has to pass WP:SONGCOVER. Richard3120 (talk) 21:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)