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Album: Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel – The Best Years of our Lives
Whilst “The Psychomodo” may have been the album to break Cockney Rebel, “The Best Years of our Lives” was the one which catapulted Steve Harley into the pop pantheon, mainly for the inclusion of the massive hit single “Make … Continue reading
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February 18th 1975
“Viv came round in evening + listened to some records. Was at work all day” Yes really. We spent the evening sat on my bed listening to records. I probably wanted to ‘mess about’ a bit but was reserved due … Continue reading
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December 27th 1973
“Bort Brain Salad Surgery – not very good but alright” Wha?? Doubtless buoyed by “christmas money” I went out and bought Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s new opus – released a mere month earlier – only to get it home and … Continue reading
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August 10th 1973
“Went up Dicks, back into E.Leigh & got hair done. Sent off radio quiz. After work went got Nigs h.phones for him” I was thinking about headphones the other day. Whilst I now spend a proportion of each day (at the … Continue reading
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August 3rd 1973
“Roger came for me at 10 – said Ward wanted me to work all day – did so. Swapped my Scalextric for Bernard’s organ” I will now pause whilst the more juvenile amongst you make up your own jokes………… Done? … Continue reading
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May 16th 1973
“Recorded Trilogy and Emerson, Lake & Palmer for Bruce in Evng” No it didn’t. As I am currently (i.e. 2009) discovering in the fantastic book “Appetite for Self-Destruction (The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age)” by … Continue reading
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January 28th 1973
“Dave came up in the morning and borrowed Pictures and lent me Roxy Music” I was almost dreading the debut mention of Roxy Music in this blog. Why? Because it is extremely difficult to explain the impact that the band … Continue reading
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