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Psychomodo
"Psychomodo" is a song by the British rock band Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harley. It was released in 1974 as the lead single from their second studio album ''The Psychomodo''. "Psychomodo" was written by Harley, and produced by Harley and Alan Parsons. Background "Psychomodo" was recorded during sessions for ''The Psychomodo'' in February–March 1974. The song was inspired by the album's overall theme which was described by Harley in 1974 as "very much a concept: psychomodal – stream of consciousness". On ''The Psychomodo'', the song is preceded by the opening track "Sweet Dreams", which segues into "Psychomodo". Release EMI originally intended to release "Psychomodo" as a single in the UK, with a release date of 17 May 1974. Although copies were pressed, EMI cancelled the single's release when the band's preceding single "Judy Teen", which was released in March 1974, began to climb the UK Singles Chart. It made its debut on 11 May and reached its peak at number 5 on 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Psychomodo
''The Psychomodo'' is the second studio album by Cockney Rebel, which was released by EMI in 1974. It was produced by Steve Harley and Alan Parsons. Background Cockney Rebel's debut album, ''The Human Menagerie'', was released in 1973 and failed to make an appearance in the UK Albums Chart. The single " Sebastian" was also a failure in the UK, but did achieve success in Continental Europe.Booklet of 2012 compilation album Cavaliers: An Anthology 1973-1974 The lack of UK success for Cockney Rebel left their label, EMI, feeling the band had yet to record a potential hit single. In response, Harley went away and reworked his unrecorded song "Judy Teen", which was released in March 1974 and became a UK Top 5 hit. By the time the single was released, Cockney Rebel were already in the process of recording their second album, ''The Psychomodo''. From 25 May to 7 July 1974, Cockney Rebel embarked on a major British tour to promote ''The Psychomodo''. Due to the success of "Judy Teen", wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cockney Rebel
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are a British glam rock band from the early 1970s from London. Their music covers a range of styles from pop to progressive rock. Over the years they have had five albums in the UK Albums Chart and twelve singles in the UK Singles Chart. Career Steve Harley grew up in London's New Cross area and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' School. His musical career began in the late 1960s when he was busking (with John Crocker aka Jean-Paul Crocker) and performing his own songs, some of which were later recorded by him and the band. The original Cockney Rebel After an initial stint as a music journalist, the original Cockney Rebel was formed when Harley hooked up with his former folk music partner, Crocker (fiddle / mandolin / guitar) in 1972. Crocker had just finished a short stint with Trees and they advertised and auditioned drummer Stuart Elliott, bassist Paul Jeffreys, and guitarist Nick Jones. This line-up played one of the band's first g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Harley
Steve Harley (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice; 27 February 1951) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still tours, albeit with frequent and significant personnel changes. Early life Harley was born in 1951 in Deptford, London, the second of five children. His father was a milkman and his mother a semi-professional jazz singer. During the summer of 1953, Harley contracted polio, causing him to spend four years in hospital between the ages of three and 16. He underwent two major surgeries in 1963 and 1966. After recovering from the first operation at the age of 12, Harley was introduced to the poetry of T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, the prose of John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway, and the music of Bob Dylan, which inspired him to a career of words and music. From the age of nine, Harley began taking classical violin lessons and would later play as part of his grammar school orchestra. Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Teen
"Judy Teen" is a song by the British rock band Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harley. It was released as a non-album single in 1974, and became the band's first UK hit, after their debut single, " Sebastian", was only a hit in continental Europe. "Judy Teen" was written by Harley, and produced by Harley and Alan Parsons. Writing While Cockney Rebel's debut single "Sebastian" became a big hit across continental Europe in 1973–74, it failed to enter the UK charts, as did the band's debut album, ''The Human Menagerie'', when it was released in November 1973. The lack of UK success for "Sebastian" and the album left Cockney Rebel's label, EMI Records, feeling the band had yet to record a potential hit single. In response, Harley went away to re-work an unfinished song titled "Judy Teen", with the objective of making a single with commercial potential. Harley later recalled, Cockney Rebel had originally recorded "Judy Teen" as a demo in 1972, but it was not recorded for ''The Hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Parsons was involved with the production of several notable albums, including the Beatles' ''Abbey Road'' (1969) and ''Let It Be'' (1970), Pink Floyd's ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons's own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for '' Eye in the Sky'' (35th Anniversary Edition). Music career In October 1967, at the age of 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios. He was a tape operator during the Beatles' Get Back sessions, and he earned his first credit on the LP ''Abbey Road''. He became a regular there, engineering such projects as Wings' '' Wild Life'' and ''Red Rose Speedway'', f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideaway (Cockney Rebel Song)
"Hideaway" is a song by the British rock band Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harley. Released as the opening track on the band's 1973 debut album ''The Human Menagerie'', "Hideaway" was released in 1974 as a single in Denmark only. It was written by Harley and produced by Neil Harrison. Background Following the commercial success of the band's debut single "Sebastian" on the European continent, as well as the band's 1974 follow-up "Judy Teen", EMI Records decided to release "Hideaway" as a single in Denmark only. Neither Harley or Cockney Rebel had any input regarding the release of the single. "Hideaway" was first performed by Harley during his days of busking in the early 1970s, before Cockney Rebel were formed in late 1972. Having trained as a journalist for three years, Harley embarked on his musical career through "floor-spotting" within London folk clubs in 1971-72. In 1972, Harley began busking in London, in subways and walkways under and in such places as Hyde Park Corne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The BBC (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Album)
''Live at the BBC'' is a live compilation album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released by Windsong International Records in 1995. The compilation features three different sessions by the band for the BBC: two in 1974 and one in 1992. Background Released in 1995, ''Live at the BBC'' features fourteen tracks, consisting of three separate performances by the band. The two 1974 performances feature the original Cockney Rebel line-up that split in July 1974. The first five tracks make up the first session, which was recorded for John Peel on 28 May 1974. The second set of four tracks were recorded 'Live in Concert' on 22 January 1974. The final five tracks were recorded for Nicky Campbell in 1992. The session features Harley and three of the existing Cockney Rebel line-up of that time. Of the five 1992 tracks, two are abridged versions of "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" and "Riding the Waves". In the compilation's liner notes, Harley commented of the 1974 sessions: "The tracks h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scars (band)
Scars (originally known as The Scars) were a Scottish post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland, and were a part of that city's music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. History Fronted by Robert King and featuring Paul Research on lead guitar, John Mackie on bass, and Calumn Mackay on drums, the band's first single was in 1979 on Fast Product; "Horrorshow"/"Adult/ery". The band's song "Your Attention Please" appeared as a free gold flexi-disc in the first issue of the London-based style magazine '' i-D''. This song was later included in the band's 1981 (and sole) album '' Author! Author!'' ''The Scotsman'' ranked the album number 75 in the list of the top 100 Scottish rock and pop albums of all time. John Peel invited the band to record two of his Sessions, once in February 1980 and another in May 1981. The group was part of a literary art-punk scene that centred on a pub called the "Tap o' Lauriston" at 80 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh (near Edinburgh College of Art), along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Thompson (author)
David Thompson (born 4 January 1960, aka Dave Thomas) is an English writer who is the author of more than 100 books, largely dealing with rock and pop music, but also covering film, sports, philately, numismatics and erotica. He wrote regularly for ''Melody Maker'' and ''Record Collector'' in the 1980s, and has since contributed to magazines such as ''Mojo'', '' Q'', ''Rolling Stone'' and '' Goldmine''."Dave Thompson" Rock's Backpages. Retrieved 14 April 2021. Thompson was born in in Devon. In the late 1970s, he wrote and published a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMI Records Singles
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth largest business group and record label conglomerate in the music industry, and was one of the "Big Four" record companies (now the " Big Three"). Its labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records, and Capitol Records, which are now owned by other companies. EMI was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was also once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but faced financial problems and US$4 billion in debt, leading to its acquisition by Citigroup in February 2011. Citigroup's ownership was temporary, as EMI announced in November 2011 that it would sell its music arm to Vivendi's Universal Music Group for $1.9 billion and its publishing business to a Sony/ATV consortium for around $2.2 billi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Harley Songs
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1974 Singles
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. Events January–February * January 26 – Bülent Ecevit of CHP forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
