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Eric Michael Stewart (born 20 January 1945) [1] is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, best known as a founding member of the rock groups the Mindbenders with whom he played from 1963 to 1968, and likewise of 10cc from 1972 to 1995.
Wayne Fontana founded the band in June 1963 with Bob Lang, Ric Rothwell, and Eric Stewart.The name of the group was inspired by the title of a 1963 UK feature film, starring the British actor Dirk Bogarde, called The Mind Benders.
Guitarist Eric Stewart was a member of Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, a group that hit No. 1 with "The Game of Love", and scored a number of other mid-1960s hits. When Fontana left the band in October 1965, the group became known simply as the Mindbenders, with Stewart as their lead vocalist.
Frooty Rooties was recorded mostly by Eric Stewart and Paul Burgess and features several additional contributions from then 10cc lineup musicians. The cover of the album is a pin-up painting by Gil Elvgren .
Stewart plays all the instruments himself although he is assisted with the backing vocals. EriŃ Stewart has said the album's title was inspired by a label posted on a package being mailed by his son Jody. [1] Stewart also wrote a song using the same title that was released on his next solo album Viva la Difference. [2]
In 1995, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman re-recorded "I'm Not in Love" as an acoustic version for the last 10cc studio album Mirror Mirror. It was released as a single and charted at number 29 in the UK, [65] giving the band their biggest hit since "Dreadlock Holiday" in 1978.
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According to Eric Stewart, in the 2009 BBC radio documentary The Record Producers, the band's name came about because "there was a lovely girl at the time, a receptionist called Kathy, and she used to wear these hot pants, and we always used to call her 'hot legs', and so we thought we'll call the group Hotlegs".