Top singles from the past

22 February 2025

On this day 50 years ago STEVE HARLEY AND COCKNEY REBEL scored their
only No 1 hit in the UK with supreme pop pearl Make Me Smile (Come Up
To See Me).

The late great Steve Harley (1951-2024) wrote it after the band’s
original members, except the drummer, left him. He said the song
was “a finger-pointing piece of vengeful poetry. It’s getting off my chest
how I felt about the guys splitting up a perfectly workable machine.”

The song featured on their 1975
LP The Best Years Of Our Lives .

STEVE HARLEY: Facebook

Never understood why they didn’t also score a No 1 hit with their
1973 debut single, the brilliant symphonic ballad ‘SEBASTIAN‘.