10cc’s Graham Gouldman heads to Theatre Royal Winchester on Tuesday 17 October as part of his Heart Full of Songs tour.

Through a remarkable career that started in his teens he wrote hits for some of the country’s best known bands of the day, 10cc. As a founding member of the band Graham Gouldman still maintains that “a good song can always be performed acoustically”.

He’ll be doing just that, for only the third time in eight years, when Graham Gouldman’s Heart Full of Songs perform his music catalogue next week.

The concerts will feature 10cc classics such as I’m Not In Love, Dreadlock Holiday and The Things We Do For Love, Bus Stop – a hit for The Hollies, For Your Love (The Yardbirds) and Bridge To Your Heart (Wax), along with some new material.

Graham formed what became Heart Full of Songs six years ago, purely for the pleasure of playing his songs in their simplest form: acoustically. Then backed by his fellow 10cc band members, Graham began opening 10cc shows by performing a selection of the hits he’d written for other artistes. The format became so popular that it adopted the name Heart Full Of Songs, undertaking its first stand-alone concert tour in April-May 2013, and touring again the following year. The band is now a quartet featuring Iain Hornal, Ciaran Jeremiah and Dave Cobby.

Graham’s status as one of the world’s leading songwriters was acknowledged with his induction into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame – an arm of America’s National Academy of Music – at a special ceremony in New York. Previous inductees include Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, Burt Bacharach, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Leonard Cohen and Sting.

Tickets from theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk or 01962 840 440.