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Steve Harley
March 2024
Steve Harley obituary
Steve Harley – a life in pictures
Steve Harley: 1970s Cockney Rebel who took risks and wrote hits
Alexis Petridis
Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel frontman, dies aged 73
February 2017
How we made
How we made Cockney Rebel’s Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
Steve Harley: ‘No one knew it at the time, but the song is about the guys who walked out of the band’
May 2007
Harley on two new roads to success
Cockney Rebel singer looks forward to being a stud farmer - and is about to make his theatrical debut.
August 2005
Home entertainment
Making him smile
Steve Harley
started out as a journalist, and it was the words that first drew him to writing songs - by the likes of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
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