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Performed by: 10cc
Written by: Lawrence (Lol) Creme; Kevin Godley; Graham Gouldman

Credits: Creme, Lawrence (Lol) (Songwriter); Godley, Kevin (Songwriter); Gouldman, Graham (Songwriter); MAN-KEN MUSIC, LTD. (Publisher)

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For the ammunition, see rubber bullet.
"Rubber Bullets"
Single by 10cc
from the album 10cc
B-side Waterfall
Released June 1973
Format 7"
Genre Rock, Pop
Length 5:19
Label UK Records
Writer(s) Kevin Godley, Lol Creme and Graham Gouldman
Producer Kevin Godley, Lol Creme and Graham Gouldman
10cc singles chronology
"Johnny Don't Do It"
(1972)		 "Rubber Bullets"
(1973)		 "The Dean and I"
(1974)
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"Rubber Bullets" was a song by 10cc from their debut self-titled album.

Written and produced by Kevin Godley, Lol Creme and Graham Gouldman and produced by 10cc, "Rubber Bullets" was the band's first number one single in the United Kingdom, spending a single week at the top in June 1973. It fared less well in the USA where it peaked at #73. A tongue in cheek homage to Jailhouse Rock with a Beach Boys influence, it attracted some controversy at the time because of the British Army's use of rubber bullets to quell rioting in Northern Ireland.

In a BBC Radio Wales interview, guitarist Eric Stewart explained:

“ That's a double track solo on that. It's, it's very, very high, of course, going through a Marshall stack, then I slowed the tape to half speed – seven and a half [inches per second] – and recorded it, you know, going [plays singles picked notes slowly] and when you speed it back up you've got an octave up, but there's a screaming fuzz on the top of it, that's an octave higher than it was recorded. So it's a very unusual sound done in that way, just an experiment. Because 10cc, we love to experiment, we used to love to waste time. And having the beauty of having our own studio, we didn't have a clock in there so we weren't restricted. ”

"Rubber Bullets" was used as the theme song to the pilot episode of American animated TV series Superjail!, which aired in May 2007.

"Rubber Bullets" can be heard on Finnish movie "Simpauttaja" made in 1973, based on the books by Heikki Turunen. It is played at a bar from jukebox.

Preceded by
"Can the Can" by Suzi Quatro		 UK number one single
June 23, 1973 for one week		 Succeeded by
"Skweeze Me Pleeze Me" by Slade
v • d • e
10cc
Graham Gouldman · Eric Stewart · Kevin Godley · Lol Creme · Paul Burgess · Rick Fenn · Stuart Tosh · Tony O'Malley
Studio albums
Live albums
Live And Let Live The Best of 10cc Live King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Alive
Compilations
Box Sets
Singles
"Donna" · "Rubber Bullets" · "The Dean and I" · "The Wall Street Shuffle" · "I'm Not in Love" · "Dreadlock Holiday"
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