10cc were a regular "sound in the background" when I was an early teenager, but I never really paid that much attention, by the time I'd started to play music myself they'd kind of morphed into Godley & Creme as I recall, and being a dyed in the wool Punk by then I would've despised them anyway 😁
Didn't they invent that gizmotron thing, a sort of weird mechanical Ebow equivalent ?