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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's a Prima Donna (1976)

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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's a Prima Donna (1976)

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's a Prima Donna (1976)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 291 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans included
Classic Rock, Glam Rock | Label: EMI | # 7243 8 57607 2 3 | Time: 00:45:39

Although he created a decadent glam rocker image through early albums like The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo, Steve Harley soon revealed a romantic heart beating beneath all the artsy sleaze on singles like "Judy Teen" and "Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me)." This 1976 album, the last studio outing Harley would record under the Cockney Rebel banner, allowed him to give full vent to his romantic thoughts via lushly crafted songs about the travails of love. Love Is a Prima Donna features two of Harley's finest songs in the title track, a bracing song that features the writer waxing comical about the pitfalls of love over a briskly paced pop tune that fleshes out its pub-piano melody with flamenco guitar and a choir, and "(Love) Compared With You," a delicately orchestrated love ballad that manages to be touching and heartfelt without lapsing into sappy sentimentality. This album also produced one of Harley's biggest hits with an arty, synthesizer-laced cover of the Beatles' classic "Here Comes the Sun".

Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie (1973) Expanded Reissue 2004

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Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie (1973) Expanded Reissue 2004

Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie (1973) Expanded Reissue 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 310 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans ~ 55 Mb
Classic Rock, Glam Rock | Label: BGO | # BGOCD616 | Time: 00:51:06

Indulging for the first time in Cockney Rebel's debut album – and one uses the word "indulging" deliberately, for like so much else that's this delicious, you cannot help but feel faintly sinful when it's over – is like waking up from a really weird dream, and discovering that reality is weirder still. A handful of Human Menagerie's songs are slight, even forced, and certainly indicative of the group's inexperience. But others – the labyrinthine "Sebastian," the loquacious "Death Trip" in particular – possess confidence, arrogance, and a doomed, decadent madness which astounds. Subject to ruthless dissection, Steve Harley's lyrics were essentially nonsense, a stream of disconnected images whose most gallant achievement is that they usually rhyme. But what could have been perceived as a weakness – or, more generously, an emotionally overwrought attempt to blend Byron with Burroughs – is actually their strength.

Steve Harley - The Cockney Rebel: A Steve Harley Anthology (2006) 3CD Set

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Steve Harley - The Cockney Rebel: A Steve Harley Anthology (2006) 3CD Set

Steve Harley - The Cockney Rebel: A Steve Harley Anthology (2006) 3CD Set
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.32 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 464 Mb | Scans ~ 34 Mb
Classic Rock, Glam Rock | Label: EMI | # 0946 370784 2 6 | Time: 03:22:19

The Cockney Rebel – A Steve Harley Anthology is a remastered three-disc box-set anthology by Steve Harley, released in 2006. The anthology features material from Cockney Rebel, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Harley's solo career. It covers all of Harley's albums, spanning over 33 years, from 1973's The Human Menagerie to 2005's The Quality of Mercy.

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo (1974) [Expanded Reissue 1991, Japanese Press]

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Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo (1974) [Expanded Reissue 1991, Japanese Press]

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo (1974) Expanded Reissue 1991, Japanese Press
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 304 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans ~ 59 Mb
Glam Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Toshiba EMI Ltd | # TOCP-6791 | Time: 00:50:16

If The Human Menagerie, Cockney Rebel's debut album, was a journey into the bowels of decadent cabaret, The Psychomodo, their second, is like a trip to the circus. Except the clowns were more sickly perverted than clowns normally are, and the fun house was filled with rattlesnakes and spiders. Such twists on innocent childhood imagery have transfixed authors from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, but Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel were the first band to set that same dread to music, and the only ones to make it work. The Psychomodo was also the band's breakthrough album. The Human Menagerie drew wild reviews and curious sales, but it existed as a cult album even after "Judy Teen" swung out of nowhere to give the band a hit single in spring 1974. Then "Mr Soft" rode his bloodied big top themes into town and Rebelmania erupted. The Psychomodo, still possessing one of the most elegantly threatening jackets of any album ever, had no alternative but to clean up. Harley's themes remained essentially the same as last time out – fey, fractured alienation; studied, splintered melancholia, and shattered shards of imagery which mean more in the mind than they ever could on paper.