Steve Harley comes up and sees St Peter

[ajsmith2]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/steve-harley-death-cockney-rebel-make-me-smile-b2513960.html

[dontpaintyourteeth]

My main memory of this guy is the time he got a bad review in Q magazine so he wrote them a poem that included the line "why did you give it to the prejudiced Steve Lowe? Why did he castigate so?"

[Phoenix Lazarus]

His version of Here Comes the Sun knocks the Beatles' into a cocked hat.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

This is such a gorgeous song.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

To be fair the first two Cockney Rebel albums are quite good. I would have never actually listened to them if it wasn't for the Simon Reynolds book about Glam. Maybe now he's (Steve Harley, I mean, as far as I know Mr Reynolds is alive and well, unless he went in the night and they haven't told us yet) gone people will rediscover them.

_{am I the only one who always confuses them with Cockney Rejects}

[extraordinary walnuts]

Oh fuck no! I was *just* listening to Make Me Smile :(((

[sevendaughters]

make me die (come up and see me)

[Kankurette]

My main memory of this guy is the time he got a bad review in Q magazine so he wrote them a poem that included the line "why did you give it to the prejudiced Steve Lowe? Why did he castigate so?"

Same. 'How low?'

[Chicory]

Just how bad did your record have to be to get a bad review from Q Magazine?  RIP Softmints Guy.

[Keebleman]

I've always thought of him as a sort of Terence Trent D'Arby of the 70s, in that he seemed to be a guy who had everything necessary for a long career at the very top but let it slip away.

[Captain Z]

Oh fuck no! I was *just* listening to Make Me Smile :(((

Could you try putting on a Ladbaby track?

[Norton Canes]

Mr Soft

[extraordinary walnuts]

Could you try putting on a Ladbaby track?

The Ladbaby phenomenon had somehow completely passed me by but I will say that reading the Wikipedia page just now made me want to end my own life

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Mr Soft

Mr Rigor Mortis, by this point.

[Funcrusher]

_{am I the only one who always confuses them with Cockney Rejects}

Not a mistake you'd want to make when attending a live performance - I imagine they attract distinctly different audiences...

[Sebastian Cobb]

I don't know him beyond Come Up and See Me, but it's just an incredible banger.

Sorry if this has already been said; I'm half cut and haven't bothered reading the thread.

[lazyhour]

I keep meaning to check out his (pre-Sensational Band) late 60s stuff which is ridiculously rare and expensive and is in a more R'n'B/ blue-eyed soul style, as I understand it. Can anyone recommend any early nuggets?

[pupshaw]

I keep meaning to check out his (pre-Sensational Band) late 60s stuff which is ridiculously rare and expensive and is in a more R'n'B/ blue-eyed soul style, as I understand it. Can anyone recommend any early nuggets?

Are you talking about the Sensational Steve Harley Band?

[Mr Banlon]

I reckon he wore a rug in later life

[lazyhour]

Are you talking about the Sensational Steve Harley Band?

Aw fuck, I've gone mental.

[Senior Baiano]

Dead is a Mean, Mean Colour

[Norton Canes]

Mr Rigor Mortis, by this point.

Fair enough.

Mr Snuffed.

[gilbertharding]

Cockney Rebel (it's a band, it's not just Steve Harley!) for me are the specific band a guy who ends up teaching history at a comprehensive school in the early 80s liked when he was at college. That's it, it's what they are.

[gilbertharding]

Oh fuck no! I was *just* listening to Make Me Smile :(((

We were in the car listening to 6 Music when it was announced as the first and also the last item on the hourly news bulletin. And right after the news they went straight into playing The Human Menagerie Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me)

[how do you like apples]

This one

[SteveDave]

I used to really love "Mr Soft" until I heard "Velvet Goldmine" and realised Steve just ripped off Dave's chorus.

[Head Gardener]

Going through some 7" earlier I came across one which was perhaps not his finest 45 but I remembered he did kindly sign the sleeve for me.