After more than 50 years with the group, drummer Paul Burgess has announced he is leaving 10cc.

Burgess made the announcement after the group completed it’s recent tour of the U.S.

“Having enjoyed many years with 10cc, I’m sorry to say that for me the rigours of touring have become incommensurate with age, and it’s time to put excessive hours spent waiting in airports and sitting on tour buses behind me,” Burgess said in a statement to LouderSound.

“I have no intention of retiring and will continue to play, but at a more agreeable pace, working with past associates and a new band of like-minded musicians, The Guilty Men,” he said.

Burgess has been a member of the group since 1973, when he replaced founding members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. He appears on several of the band’s albums,

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