Make Me Smil (Come Up to See Me)

STEVE HARLEY AND COCKNEY REBEL Scored Their Only No 1 Hit In The UK 50 Years Ago Today

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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‘.

R.I.P. Cockney Rebel STEVE HARLEY 1951-2024

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17 March 2024

Sad, sad news. STEVE HARLEY (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice 73 years ago
in Deptford, London. the former frontman of 70s glam rock legends Cockney Rebel
passed away yesterday, due to cancer.

His daughter Greta broke the news with this message.

Cockney Rebel formed in 1972 and were in the spotlights for 5 years with 5 longplayers, several hit singles and spectacular shows. Years later the band reunited for a while and released one last LP in 2005. Already from 1975 on the band was named Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.

3 top moments.

– SEBASTIAN –
Bombastic rock opera at its sublime best

– JUDY TEEN –
From their 1974 breakthrough LP The Psychomodo

– MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) –
More than 94 million streams on Spotify

Steve Harley: Instagram – Bio – Discography

(Image on top: from the cover of their 1974 LP ‘The Psychomodo’)