Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley went from cub reporter to rock star
Make Me Smile singer and Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley has died at home with his family around him at the age of 73.
The 70s rock star, who was born in Deptford, south London on February 27 1951, became famous for the band’s hit Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) but his work-life began in a newspaper office as an accountant.
As a child, Harley spent almost four years in hospital between the ages of three and 16 and underwent major surgery in 1963 and 1966.
At Christmas 1964, made a visit to the Mary’s Hospital for Children in Carshalton Beeches where he was being treated but he was to reminisce that most of the children were “interested in joking about the huge poster of The Beatles pinned to a wall”.
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