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Deceptive Bends is the fifth studio album by the British rock band 10cc , released in It was the first album released by the band after the departure of founding members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme and produced the hit single " The Things We Do for Love ".

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The band started recording sessions for the fifth album in late summer of with the song " People in Love ", at that time referred to as "Voodoo Boogie". But with the tensions in the band rising the track was considered "awful" when assembled, and Kevin Godley and Lol Creme decided to temporarily split with Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman to start work on what would later become their debut project Consequences.

As their work progressed Godley and Creme decided to leave the group. Satisfied with the results they continued to run the band with the assistance of drummer Paul Burgess , who had already worked with 10cc, acting as second drummer to Kevin Godley on tour. Stewart recalled: "I had a big challenge ahead of me to prove to the record world that we were not just 5cc, as some of the British media had graciously called us.

The music was simpler than some of the previous 10cc albums, it was far more direct, streamlined and positive. The whole album was recorded very in our terms quickly. I was on a mission, and flying higher and faster than I had ever been before, and I knew by then that we had a very strong album. The new songs played a big part in the equation of course, I was out to prove also that we could write a hit album without Kevin and Lol The album was the first by 10cc to be recorded in the newly built Strawberry Studios South , though the original recording attempts with Godley and Creme were made in the original Strawberry Studios now referred as North.