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December 6, 2015
Steve Harley is an English singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the band he founded in 1970s, the glam rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still occasionally tours.
The Human Menagerie is Cockney Rebel’s debut studio album. It was produced by Neil Harrison, and released by EMI Records in November 1973.
Tracks:
Hideaway
What Ruthy Said
Loretta’s Tale
Crazy Raver
Sebastian
Mirror Freak
My Only Vice
Muriel the Actor
Chameleon
Death Trip
All songs written and composed by Steve Harley
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals
Jean-Paul Crocker – electric violin, mandolin, guitar
Milton Reame-James – keyboards
Paul Jeffreys – bass
Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion
The Psychomodo is the second studio album by Cockney Rebel. Produced by Steve Harley and Alan Parsons, it was released by EMI Records in June 1974.
Tracks:
Sweet Dreams
Psychomodo
Mr. Soft
Singular Band
Ritz
Cavaliers
Bed in the Corner
Sling It!
Tumbling Down
All songs written and composed by Steve Harley
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals
Jean-Paul Crocker – electric violin, mandolin, guitar
Milton Reame-James – keyboards
Paul Jeffreys – bass
Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion
The Best Years of Our Lives is the third album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel released in March 1975. It was the first album that used Harley’s name ahead of the band (the band was previously known simply as Cockney Rebel). The album contains the band’s biggest hit, the million selling ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)’
Tracks:
Introducing The Best Years
The Mad, Mad Moonlight
Mr. Raffles (Man, It Was Mean)
It Wasn’t Me
Panorama
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
Back to the Farm
49th Parallel
The Best Years of Our Lives
All songs written and composed by Steve Harley
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals
Jim Cregan – guitars, backing vocals
George Ford – bass guitar, backing vocals
Duncan Mackay – synthesizer, keyboards, Hammond organ, electric piano, clavinet, elka, grand piano, violin
Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion, marimba
Timeless Flight is the fourth studio album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in 1976.
Tracks:
Red Is a Mean, Mean Colour – 4:29
White, White Dove – 5:37
Understand – 7:15
All Men Are Hungry – 4:51
Black or White (And Step on It) – 5:48
Everything Changes – 2:23
Nothing Is Sacred – 5:43
Don’t Go, Don’t Cry – 5:04
All songs written and composed by Steve Harley
Personnel:
Steve Harley – lead vocals, producer, liner notes
Jim Cregan – guitars, backing vocals
George Ford – bass guitar, backing vocals
Duncan Mackay – keyboards
Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion
Love’s a Prima Donna is an album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in October 1976. The album reached No. 28 in the UK Albums Chart in November 1976.
Tracks:
Seeking a Love
G.I. Valentine
Finally a Card Came
Too Much Tenderness
(Love) Compared with You
(I Believe) Love’s a Prima Donna
Sidetrack II
Seeking a Love, Pt. 2
If This Is Love (Give Me More)
Carry Me Again
Here Comes the Sun
Innocence and Guilt
Is It True What They Say
All songs written and composed by Steve Harley
except Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals, guitar, producer
Jim Cregan – guitar, backing vocals
Jo Partridge – guitar
George Ford – bass, backing vocals
Duncan Mackay – keyboards
Stuart Elliott – drums
Face to Face: A Live Recording is a live album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in 1977. Following the release of the 1976 studio album Love’s a Prima Donna, the band embarked on a UK tour to promote it. Harley recorded a number of concerts between December 1976 and January 1977 and the best tracks were then sorted for a live album.
Tracks:
Here Comes the Sun
(I Believe) Love’s a Prima Donna
The Mad, Mad Moonlight
Red is a Mean, Mean Colour
Sweet Dreams
Finally a Card Came
Psychomodo
If This Is Love (Give Me More)
The Best Years of Our Lives
(Love) Compared with You
Mr. Soft
Sebastian
Seeking a Love
Tumbling Down
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
All songs written and composed by Steve Harley
except Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals
Jo Partridge – guitar
George Ford – bass guitar
Duncan Mackay – keyboards
Stuart Elliott – drums
Hobo with a Grin is a debut solo album by Steve Harley. It was released in July 1979, eighteen months after Harley had disbanded Cockney Rebel.
Tracks:
Roll the Dice
Amerika the Brave
Living in a Rhapsody
I Wish It Would Rain
Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)
Someone’s Coming
Hot Youth
(I Don’t Believe) God is an Anarchist
Faith, Hope and Charity
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals
Jo Partridge – guitar
George Ford – bass guitar
Duncan Mackay – keyboards
Stuart Elliott – drums
The Candidate is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley released in 1979.
Tracks:
Audience With the Man
Woodchopper
Freedom’s Prisoner
Love on the Rocks
Who’s Afraid?
One More Time
How Good It Feels
From Here to Eternity
Young Hearts (The Candidate)
Personnel:
Steve Harley – Vocals, Producer (all tracks), Writer (all tracks)
Yvonne Keeley – Backing Vocals
Jo Partridge, Phil Palmer – Guitar
Nico Ramsden – Guitar, Backing Vocals
John Giblin – Bass
Joey Carbone – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Steve Gregory – Saxophone, Saxophone Arrangement
Stuart Elliott – Drums
Bryn Hawarth – Mandolin (track 1 only)
The English Chorale – Choir (track 3 only)
Robert Howes – Choir Director – Robert Howes (track 3 only)
Jimmy Horowitz – Producer (all tracks), Writer (track 3 only), Celesta (track 2 only)
Yes You Can is the third studio album by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released in 1992 within Europe and 1993 in the UK.
Tracks:
Irresistible
Victim of Love
Rain in Venice
Star for a Week (Dino)
Promises
Fire in the Night
The Alibi
New-Fashioned Way
The Lighthouse
Dancing on the Telephone
Personnel:
Steve Harley – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, harmonica, producer
Jim Cregan – acoustic guitar
Alan Darby – guitar
Rick Driscoll – guitar
Harvey Hinsley – guitar
Robin LeMesurier – guitar
Nick Pynn – acoustic guitar, guitar
Barry Wickens – acoustic guitar, violin, viola
Kevin Powell – bass
Adrian Lee – keyboards
Duncan Mackay – keyboards
Stuart Elliott – drums
Paul Francis – drums
Dave Mattacks – drums
Poetic Justice is the fourth studio album by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released in 1996.
Tracks:
That’s My Life in Your Hands
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?
Two Damn’d Lies
Loveless
Strange Communications
All in a Life’s Work
Love Minus Zero-No Limit
Safe
The Last Time I Saw You
Crazy Love
Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)
Personnel:
Steve Harley – lead vocals, producer
Paul Francis – drums
Andrew Brown – bass, double-bass
Thomas Arnold – Hammond organ, accordion, percussion, piano, keyboards
Ian Nice – piano, keyboards
Nick Pynn – acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, dulcimer, mando-cello
Phil Beer – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bottle-neck guitar, violin, vocals
Richard Durrant – classical guitar on ‘Crazy Love’
Mark Price – drums on ‘Strange Communications’ and ‘The Last Time I Saw You’
Herbie Flowers – double-bass on ‘Strange Communications’
Susan Harvey – vocals
Unplugged is a 1999 live acoustic album by English songwriter and musician Steve Harley.
Tracks:
My Only Vice (Is the Fantastic Prices I Charge for Being Eaten Alive)”
Star for a Week (Dino)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Judy Teen
The Last Time I Saw You
Mr. Soft
(Love) Compared with You
Tumbling Down
Only You
Bed in the Corner
Sling It!
Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)
Sebastian
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
Personnel:
Steve Harley – Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Compiler
Nick Pynn – Acoustic Lead Guitar, Dulcimer, Mando-cello, Violin
The Quality of Mercy is a studio album from English rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Led by Steve Harley, the band’s line-up consisted of new musicians compared to the last Cockney Rebel album. The album was released on CD in the UK and Norway only, through Gott Discs, whilst Pinnacle Records handled the album’s distribution within the UK.
Tracks:
The Last Goodbye
Journey’s End (A Father’s Promise)
Saturday Night at the Fair
No Rain on This Parade
The Coast of Amalfi
The Last Feast
Save Me (From Myself)
When the Halo Slips
A Friend for Life
Personnel:
Vocals, Guitar – Steve Harley
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – Robbie Gladwell
Acoustic Guitar, Violin, Backing Vocals – Barry Wickens
Keyboards – James Lascelles
Bass – Lincoln Anderson
Drums – Adam Houghton
Stranger Comes to Town is a studio album from English songwriter and musician Steve Harley. The album was released in 2010 and was Harley’s first studio album in five years, after the Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel album The Quality of Mercy.
Tracks:
Faith & Virtue
Take the Men & the Horses Away
For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.
Stranger Comes to Town
This Old Man
True Love Will Find You in the End
No Bleeding Hearts
Blinded with Tears
Before They Crash the Universe
2,000 Years from Now
Personnel:
Steve Harley – Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Stuart Elliott – Percussion, Drums, Hand Drums
Robbie Gladwell – 12 String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals
Barry Wickens – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Violin, Viola, Background Vocals
Lincoln Anderson – Bass, Double Bass
James Lascelles – Piano, Synthesizer, Percussion, Keyboards, Hammond B3, Synthesizer Strings, Mini Moog, Dulcimer (Hammer), Melodica, Drums
Kerr Nice – Piano
Katie Brine – Background Vocals
Marcus Greenwood, Sam Hewitson, Maisie Colquhoun, Grace Nickalls, Maya Hodgson, Joe Dobson – Choir, Chorus on “2,000 Years from Now” (from Spooner Row Primary School)
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