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Steve Harley death: Cockney Rebel singer dies at 73 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68590846

I always loved the “sneer” that I heard in his voice
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJTMmTBPv8&si=fOsnc1PARFNLAtXe

Bet Joe Cockers getting worried his time may be up soon!

Gutted. A real talent. Saw him live in Worthing in about 1990…he sang Sebastian as a tribute to someone he’d lost in the Lockerbie plane crash (either a friend or possibly one of the original Cockney Rebel)

Must have been the 90s when I saw him play in Petworth Park. Probably best known for ‘Make me smile’ but I will forever associate him with Trebor Softmints

he sang Sebastian as a tribute to someone he’d lost in the Lockerbie plane crash (either a friend or possibly one of the original Cockney Rebel)

Original band member, Paul Jeffreys, had got married the day before,they were going to the USA for their honeymoon. Steve Harley was also a mate of Steve Wright, they went to the same school in South London, albeit a few years difference between them.

Ah thanks for that….i wasn’t sure my memory was correct

Saw him at Reading festival back in 1983, superb, he even conducted the crowd during an inpromtued rendition of “Come round and see me”

I saw him in one of the free Heineken Big Top gigs in the early 90s, listened to a bit of his stuff over the years and saw him live again a few years ago. He was good, but always seemed a little put out that he wasn’t bigger. (I saw him at a folk festival, and he was grumbling that he wasn’t a folk act. He was standing solo on a stage with an acoustic guitar…)

No don’t worry he hasn’t died again. Just going through all our old tapes at work and digitising them before they go in the bin. Found not only a VHS retailer copy of his 1989 Come Back, All is Forgiven tour but the original U-Matic edit masters it came from. The old owner never forgets to remind me whenever his name comes up that we never got paid for the shoot or the edit. Not sure if the tape was ever released. I guess 35 years on and him being dead means we’ll have to write this one off.

Phew, thought it was another Joe Cocker.

 him being dead means we’ll have to write this one off.

Doesn’t the value increase as there’ll be no new footage from now on?

I guess nobody got the point of the all caps title then #anotherjokefallsflat

I guess nobody got the point of the all caps title then #anotherjokefallsflat

Well It didn’t make me smile so I guess I didn’t get it