Steve Harley (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice 27 February 1951) is a British singer songwriter best known for his work with the 1970s rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still tours (albeit with many personnel changes through the years). Events 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English rock band from the early 1970s He was born in Deptford. Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London.
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As a child he suffered from polio, spending four years in hospital up to his sixteenth birthday. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via It was in hospital he first heard Bob Dylan, inspiring him to a career of words and music. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major At ten he received the gift of a guitar from his parents, and he played violin with the school orchestra. He left the Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College with no A levels. Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College is an Academy secondary school located in New Cross. The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales,
In 1968 he got a job as an accountant with the Daily Express from where he progressed to become a reporter in a number of local Essex newspapers for a duration of three years. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Daily Express is a conservative Middle-market British Tabloid Newspaper. Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common Later, he returned to London to work on the East London Advertiser. The East London Advertiser is a local newspaper in East London, England
He first started out playing in bars and clubs in the early seventies, mainly at folk venues on open-mike nights where he joined the band Odin. Odin (ˈoʊdɪn from Old Norse Óðinn) is considered the chief god in Norse paganism. He also busked around London on the Underground and Portobello Road. Performing with Odin he met Jean-Paul Crocker, with whom he formed Cockney Rebel in late 1972. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The band went on to release The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo before splitting in 74, supposedly due to fractures within the band due to Harley's personality clashes. The Human Menagerie was the first album released by 1970s art-rock group Cockney Rebel (later Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel) However, Harley carried on with drummer Stuart Elliot renaming the band to Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, with whom he had much more success. From the next album The Best Years Of Our Lives came the massive number one single "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" which is one of the most played records in British broadcasting history. A hit single is a recorded track or single that has become very popular "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me" is a song recorded by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel and released on the album The Best Years of Our Lives.
He had two more hits during the mid 1970s with "Mr Raffles" and "Here Comes The Sun" which were both top 20 hits, but he didn't have any further major successes and in the 1980s he all but faded from the public eye, relocating to America. He was set to star as the Phantom in the London premiere of The Phantom of the Opera, and recorded the promotional single of the title song, but was replaced close to rehearsals by Michael Crawford. The Phantom of the Opera (in French, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a French Novel by Gaston Leroux. Michael Crawford, OBE (born 19 January 1942) is an English Actor and Singer. He has stated in an interview that he would have done a better job than Crawford, though public opinion seems to doubt this. [1]
In the early 90s he released several albums as Steve Harley (without Cockney Rebel). His songs "Sebastian," "Tumbling Down," and "Make Me Smile" were included in the Todd Haynes' 1998 rock musical Velvet Goldmine. Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961, in Encino, California) is an award-winning American Film director. Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. In 2005 The Quality of Mercy was released under the Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel name, and Harley began touring more frequently.
In 1999 Harley began presenting a BBC 6 Music programme The Sounds of the Seventies. This moved to BBC Radio 2 in 2000, however the show has been dropped for the foreseeable future and the last programme was aired on 27 March 2008.
Harley lives in Suffolk, England. Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He has a wife, Dorothy and two children Kerr and Greta.
Discography
See also Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English rock band from the early 1970s
- Hobo with a Grin 1978
- The Candidate 1979
- Yes You Can 1992
- Poetic Justice 1996
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