With apologies to Lady Gaga, it may be British band 10cc that's most worthy of the term "art pop." The multifaceted group yielded 11 Top 10 hits in their native England, including the No. 1s "Rubber Bullets," "I'm Not In Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday"; the group even crossed over into the U.S. charts with "I'm Not In Love" and "The Things We Do for Love," both Top 5 hits.

By an amazing coincidence, not one, not two, but three 10cc-related catalogue collections are hitting stores starting next month in the U.K.! Here's a breakdown of them all.

Before, During, After: The Story of 10cc is a new box set devoted to the history and legacy of Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. This 4CD collection includes a disc of the group's hits ("During"); from there, it's a disc of post-10cc material ("After") by Godley & Creme, Wax (Gouldman's duo with singer-songwriter Andrew Gold), solo tracks by Stewart, Gouldman and Godley; Creme's tenure in The Art of Noise in 1999 and even the rare single mix of "Pretty Little Head," a track Stewart penned for Paul McCartney's Press to Play in 1986. The remaining two "Before" discs cover much of the group's early session days at Strawberry Studios in their native Stockport (where Stewart was a business partner). This includes not only nine obscure singles and work for diverse clients like The Ohio Express and the Manchester City Football Club, but material by pre-10cc bands Doctor Father and Hotlegs, early solo Graham Gouldman material, Stewart's work with The Mindbenders (including the hit "A Groovy Kind of Love") and even session work for Neil Sedaka on tunes like "Solitaire" and "Love Will Keep Us Together."

Curated with input from all four band members (who contribute with new interviews in an accompanying 40-page hardcover book of liner notes), this box serves as the definitive introduction to the world of 10cc. For casual fans, a 2CD compilation, During, After: The Best of 10cc, will also be available. Look for them each on July 28.

On September 8, Caroline International will release a 5CD box set further detailing what Kevin Godley and Lol Creme did as a duo after leaving 10cc in 1976. The artier half of the band, the duo nonetheless scored two U.K. Top 10 hits in the 1980s with "Under Your Thumb" and "Wedding Bells." Body of Work 1978-1988 features, in full, each of the band's six albums in that decade (L (1978), Freeze Frame (1979), Ismism (1981), Birds of Prey (1983), The History Mix Vol. 1 (1985, presented in its expanded "Plus" form as issued by Edsel in 2004) and Goodbye Blue Sky (1988)), plus a disc of 12 non-LP B-sides.

Finally, Cherry Red's Lemon imprint is assembling a 2CD set devoted mostly to the solo work of 10cc frontman Eric Stewart. This 2CD Anthology includes six tracks from the latter half of 10cc's career with Stewart and Gouldman at the helm (mostly drawn from their final album, 1995's MirrorMirror) plus material from Stewart's four solo albums recorded between 1980 and 2009, including tracks from 1980's Girls and 1982's Frooty Rooties making their debuts on CD. The set is rounded out by new liner notes by writer Daryl Eslea, who interviewed Stewart for the essay. That set comes out a week before Before During After, on July 21

Before, During, After: The Story of 10cc (UMC, 2017)

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2CD (During, After: The Best of 10cc): Amazon U.K.

Disc 1: During - The Best of 10cc 1972-1978

1. Rubber Bullets
2. Donna
3. Silly Love
4. The Dean and I
5. Life Is a Minestrone
6. The Wall Street Shuffle
7. Art for Art's Sake
8. I'm Mandy Fly Me
9. Good Morning Judge
10. The Things We Do for Love
11. Dreadlock Holiday
12. I'm Not In Love

Tracks 1-2 and 4 from 10cc (U.K. Records, 1973)
Tracks 3 and 6 from Sheet Music (U.K. Records, 1974)
Tracks 5 and 12 from The Original Soundtrack (Mercury, 1975)
Tracks 7-8 from How Dare You! (Mercury, 1976)
Tracks 9-10 from Deceptive Bends (Mercury, 1977)
Track 11 from Bloody Tourists (Mercury, 1978)

Disc 2: After - What We Did Next, Post-10cc

1. Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme
2. An Englishman In New York - Godley & Creme
3. Cry - Godley & Creme
4. Wedding Bells - Godley & Creme
5. Sunburn - Graham Gouldman
6. Bridge to Your Heart - Wax
7. Right Between the Eyes - Wax
8. The Ritual Parts 1-2-3 - Eric Stewart
9. Pretty Little Head - Paul McCartney
10. Metaforce - Art of Noise
11. Metaphor On The Floor - Art of Noise
12. Hooligan Crane - GG06
13. Son of Man - GG06
14. Confessions - Kevin Godley
15. Expecting a Message - Luke Mornay
16. Man On the Moon - Producers
17. Every Single Night In Jamaica - Producers

Tracks 1 and 4 from Ismism (Polydor, 1981)
Track 2 from Freeze Frame (Polydor, 1979)
Track 3 from The History Mix Vol. 1 (Polydor, 1985)
Track 5 from The Original Soundtrack Album From Sunburn (Arrival Records, 1979)
Track 6 from American English (RCA, 1987)
Track 7 from Magnetic Heaven (RCA, 1986)
Track 8 from Frooty Rooties (Mercury, 1982)
Track 9 from Press to Play (Parlophone, 1986)
Tracks 10-11 from The Seduction of Claude Debussy (ZTT, 1999)
Tracks 12-13 from GG06 EP (self-released, 2006)
Track 14 from Hog Fever EP (Ear Movies, 2016)
Track 15 from Twenty Five Ten (Mornay Music, 2017)
Tracks 16-17 from Made In Basing Street (The Last Label, 2012)

Disc 3: Before - The Strawberry Hit Factory

1. Sausalito (is the Place to Go) - Ohio Express
2. Tampa, Florida - Peter Cowap
3. Have You Ever Been to Georgia? - Garden Odyssey
4. Travellin' Man - Tristar Airbus
5. Crickets - Peter Cowap
6. Today - Festival
7. Umbopo - Doctor Father
8. Safari - Peter Cowap
9. Da Doo Ron Ron - Grumble
10. The Joker - Garden Odyssey
11. Funky City - Manchester City F.C.
12. The Man with the Golden Gun - Peter Cowap
13. Roll On - Doctor Father
14. Wicked Melinda - Peter Cowap
15. Willie Morgan - Tristar Airbus
16. Pig Bin An' Gone - Grumble
17. Warm Me - Festival
18. Oh Solomon - Peter Cowap
19. Boys In Blue - Manchester City F.C.
20. There Ain't No Umbopo - Crazy Elephant

Track 1 from Buddah U.S. single BDA 129, 1969
Tracks 2 and 12 from Pye single 7N.45042, 1971
Tracks 3 and 10 from RCA Victor U.K. single 2159, 1972
Tracks 4 and 15 from RCA Victor U.K. single 2170, 1972
Tracks 5 and 14 from Pye single 7N.17976, 1970
Tracks 6 and 17 from RCA Victor U.K. single 2275, 1972
Tracks 7 and 13 from Pye single 7N.17977, 1970
Tracks 8 and 18 from Pye single 7N.45071, 1971
Tracks 9 and 16 from RCA Victor U.K. single 2384, 1973
Tracks 11 and 19 from RCA Victor U.K. single 2200, 1972
Track 20 from Bell U.S. single 875, 1970

Disc 4: Before - The Early Years

1. A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
2. One More Time - The Mindbenders
3. Bus Stop - Graham Gouldman
4. No Milk Today - Graham Gouldman
5. For Your Love - Graham Gouldman
6. Neanderthal Man - Hotlegs
7. Desperate Dan - Hotlegs
8. Life Child - Ramases
9. Quasar One - Ramases
10. That's When the Music Takes Me - Neil Sedaka
11. Solitaire - Neil Sedaka
12. Love Will Keep Us Together - Neil Sedaka

Track 1 from The Mindbenders (Fontana, 1966)
Track 2 from Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders (Fontana, 1964)
Tracks 3-5 from The Graham Gouldman Thing (RCA Victor, 1968)
Tracks 6-7 from Hotlegs Thinks: School Stinks (Philips, 1970)
Tracks 8-9 from Space Hymns (Vertigo, 1971)
Tracks 10-11 from Solitaire (RCA Victor, 1972)
Track 12 from The Tra-La Days Are Over (MGM, 1973)

Godley & Creme, Body of Work 1978-1988 (Caroline (U.K.), 2017)

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Disc 1: L (Tracks 1-7, released as Mercury 9109 611, 1978) and Freeze Frame (Tracks 8-15, released as Polydor POLD 5027, 1978)

1. The Sporting Life
2. Sandwiches of You
3. Art School Canteen
4. Group Life
5. Punchbag
6. Foreign Accents
7. Hit Factory/Business is Business
8. An Englishman In New York
9. Random Brainwave
10. I Pity Inanimate Objects
11. Freeze Frame
12. Clue
13. Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)
14. Mugshots
15. Get Well Soon

Disc 2: Ismism (Tracks 1-9, released as Polydor POLD 5043, 1981) and Birds of Prey (Tracks 10-17 and Disc 3, Track 1; released as Polydor POLD 5070, 1983)

1. Snack Attack
2. Under Your Thumb
3. Joey's Camel
4. The Problem
5. Ready for Ralph
6. Wedding Bells
7. Lonnie
8. Sale of the Century
9. The Party
10. My Body the Car
11. Worm and the Rattlesnake
12. Cats Eyes
13. Samson
14. Save a Mountain for Me
15. Madame Guillotine
16. Woodwork
17. Twisted Nerve

Disc 3: Birds of Prey continued, The History Mix Vol. 1 (Tracks 2-4, released as Polydor POLH 22, 1985) and additional tracks

1. Out in the Cold
2. Wet Rubber Soup
3. Cry
4. Expanding the Business/The "Dare You" Man/Hum Drum Boys in Paris/Mountain Tension
5. Cry (Single Edit)
6. Love Bombs
7. Snack Attack (Remix)
8. Wet Rubber Soup (Edit)
9. Golden Boy (Remix)
10. Light Me Up
11. Golden Boy (12" Mix)

Tracks 5-6 released as Polydor single POSP 732, 1985
Tracks 7-8 released as Polydor single POSP 875, 1987
Tracks 9-10 released as Polydor single POSP 760, 1985
Track 11 released on Polydor 12" single POSPX 760, 1985

Disc 4: Goodbye Blue Sky (originally released as Polydor POLH 40, 1988)

1. H.E.A.V.E.N./A Little Piece of Heaven
2. Don't Set Fire (to the One I Love)
3. Golden Rings
4. Crime & Punishment
5. The Big Bang
6. 10,000 Angels
7. Sweet Memory
8. Airforce One
9. The Last Page of History
10. Desperate Times

Disc 5: B-sides

1. Silent Running (B-side to "An Englishman In New York" - Polydor POSP 80, 1979)
2. Wide Boy (single A-side - Polydor POSP 145, 1980)
3. Submarine (single A-side - Polydor POSP 171, 1980)
4. Marciano (single B-side - Polydor POSP 171, 1980)
5. Babies (B-side to "Wedding Bells" - Polydor POSP 369, 1981)
6. Power Behind the Throne (B-side to "Under Your Thumb" - Polydor POSP 322, 1981)
7. Welcome to Breakfast Television (B-side to "Save a Mountain for Me" - Polydor POSP 490, 1982)
8. A Little Piece of Heaven (Extended Mix) (12" A-side - Polydor POSPX 901, 1988)
9. Bits of Blue Sky (B-side to "A Little Piece of Heaven" - Polydor POSP 901, 1988)
10. Rhino Rhino (12" B-side to "A Little Piece of Heaven" - Polydor POSPX 901, 1988)
11. Hidden Heartbeat (B-side to "10,000 Angels" - Polydor POSP 913, 1988)
12. Can't Sleep (12" B-side to "10,000 Angels" - Polydor POSPX 913, 1988)

Eric Stewart/10cc, Anthology (Lemon CDLEMD229, 2017)

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Disc 1

1. Age of Consent - 10cc
2. Code of Silence - 10cc
3. Everything is Not Enough - 10cc
4. Margo Wants the Mustard - 10cc
5. Night and Day
6. More and More Each Day (a.k.a. I Will Love You Tomorrow)
7. Les Noveaux Riche - 10cc
8. A Human, Being
9. Yvonne's the One - 10cc
10. You Are Not Me
11. A Friend In Need
12. You Can't Take It with You
13. This Must Be Heaven (a.k.a. The Gods Are Smiling)
14. Heaven Knows (a.k.a. Sleeping with the Ghosts)
15. Doris the Florist
16. Strictly Business

Disc 2

1. The Ritual Parts 1-2-3
2. Do the Books
3. Never Say I Told You So
4. Make the Pieces Fit
5. Girls
6. Viva La Difference
7. We're Not Alone
8. Word of the Mouth
9. Sleep At Night
10. Can't Get Enough
11. It's in the Blood
12. Friends Like These
13. Do Not Bend
14. No, No, Nettie
15. Guitaaaaaaaaaaargh's

Disc 1, Tracks 1-4 and 9 from MirrorMirror (ZYX Music, 1995)
Disc 1, Tracks 5, 15-16 and Disc 2, Tracks 1, 3-4 and 15 from Frooty Rooties (Mercury, 1982)
Disc 1, Tracks 6, 8 and 10-14 and Disc 2, Tracks 2 and 14 from Do Not Bend (Strawberry Soundtracks, 2003)
Disc 1, Track 7 from Ten Out of 10 (Mercury, 1981)
Disc 2, Track 5 from Girls (Polydor, 1980)
Disc 2, Tracks 6-13 from Viva La Difference (Strawberry Soundtracks, 2009)