Watch Dave Grohl Cover 10cc’s ‘The Things We Do for Love’

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have shared their reside model of 10cc’s Top 5 1976 hit “The Things We Do for Love.”

It’s the most recent addition to the duo’s third annual Hanukkah Sessions collection, through which they pay tribute to Jewish musicians. Grohl and Kurstin have been joined by the latter’s bandmate in the Bird and the Bee, Inara George for the efficiency, which was recorded in entrance of a reside viewers on Dec. 5 in Los Angeles. The crowd was actively concerned within the rendition, repeating the refrain’ lyrics again to George as a part of the tune’s acquainted name and repeat.

You can watch the video under.

When 10cc shaped in Stockport, England in 1972, three of the band’s 4 members – Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme – have been Jewish, with Eric Stewart as their solely gentile. The group briefly joked about naming themselves “Three Yids and a Yok,” though Gouldman was fast to inform The Audiophile Man, “we never would have done it. It would have been offensive to Eric and it would have been offensive to us!”

After Godley and Creme left to type their very own extra experimental group in 1976, “The Things We Do for Love” was the primary single Gouldman, Stewart and drummer Paul Burgess launched after the break up.

The non-Jewish Grohl, who started the Hanukkah Sessions with Kurstin in 2020, has stated that the collection has grown far past their authentic supposed scope. “This project, which initially began as a silly idea, grew to represent something much more important to me,” he stated on the finish of 2020’s collection. “It showed me that the simple gesture of spreading joy and happiness goes a long way, and as we look forward, we should all make an effort to do so, no matter how many candles are left to light on the menorah.”

Watch 10cc Perform ‘The Things We Do for Love’