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The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was a slow-paced, vicious dirge about the band members who forsook and betrayed him which magically evolved into what appeared to be an optimistic love song, a radio staple that never stopped selling. David Hepworth and Mark Ellen remember its transformation.
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Hearing this song was a great memory from my childhood
Rest in peace,thanks Steve 💯🖤🎸
The song is one of my all-time favourites, and this is a great way to honour him.
Rest in peace Steve, you wrote one of the best songs of all time. 🎶
Last weekend we lost Eric Carmen and Kurt Wallinger, and now we've lost Steve Harley this weekend, another artist whose records evoke some great memories of growing up in the 70's.... My condolences to his family and friends...
Ditto. Just learning too about Kurt Wallinger and now Steve Harley whom I've always thought was overlooked here in the US. Loved the Cockney Rebel records....and at my age these guys aren't that old! Time waiting for none of us. Going to put their records on loud!
The 1970s were so very long ago, and getting more so every year.
RIP Steve what a brilliant song
Must be one of my earliest musical memories - early '75, i was 5 yrs old in Primary 1. Sometimes when i hear it now, it's just that tune i've heard 1000 times before but sometimes i'm right back there (along with a chart-mate of the time, Pilot's 'January')
We must be the same age? Because similar experience. 1975 College cafeteria jukebox and Make Me Smile was always playing. Whenever I hear it, I’m transported back there.
God bless you Steve. The first album 'The Human Menagerie' was breathtaking. Saw you on countless times live & met you many times & you were always charming, funny & a great human being. His songwriting was up there with Dylan & Bowie, an intelligent wordsmith. Bye Steve. 'Oh dear, look what they done to the blues, blues, blues'........
My fav song to do on karaoke...first time I did it, I couldn't believe i could carry it off...being doing it ever since
I’m so glad I saw him again last summer, playing live with his band,enjoying life and the pure love coming from his audience. When he finished playing Sebastian, the row I sat in were all in stunned tears. A beautiful man. 😢
One of the great Feel Good songs of the 70s. The tacets were such an integral part of the song. Working as a DJ in the clubs at the time it was one of those rare pop songs that although was more suitable for the juke boxes and radio I would often throw in the mix and everybody would be singing along, powerful song in that kind of environment.
Personally it was always Mr Raffles for methat remained my fave. 1975 was such a brilliant year for music😎👌
One of those special songs that *whenever* I hear it I’m transported back in time to being 10 years old, listening to my first ever transistor radio and discovering so many favourites. This is right up with the very very best. 📻 …thanks for telling the story here lads! 👍
RIP Steve. This record was good to you. I could never understand how Queen became superstars and eclipsed the superior Cockney Rebel. Bohemian Rhapsody was a piece of nonsense, but Sebastian was bursting with real passion and drama.
Totally agree
Judy Teen is great too and often overshadowed by Make Me Smile.
As is Mr. Soft....
Agreed, also…
-Sebastian
-Riding The Waves
This song sums up the 70's........
Real sad to hear about Steve Harley death. Great Artist who always gave 100%. First saw him in 1976 at W'hampton Civic - my first concert. Saw him at B'ham Odeon a few years later - Face to Face Tour, he really was the soundtrack to my youth.....saw him loads of times since at all sorts of venues and never got board of his music. He seemed a real nice person and loved his fans. He'll be really missed...
Fascinating! Thank you for the insight. Really does show how magic can happen between a song being written down on paper and the final recording which ends up pressed to vinyl, a kind of alchemy. I’m sure some songs do arrive fully-formed in the minds of the writers, but it’s not always the case.
RIP indeed Steve, good guy.
I saw Cockney Rebel in Strathclyde Uni, Glasgow c 1974
Rest in peace, Karl.
Karl Wallinger, surely one of Britain’s greatest musicians and songwriters, certainly up there with the best, but criminally underrated. Okay, that’s not everyone’s fault. Just five albums in 35 years (and of course, several stunning B-sides) hard to keep your name going, but he certainly could write a tune. I mean, number one with "She’s the One". Still, nobody seems to realise it was written by him. It would’ve been nice of Robbie to have mentioned him at the BRITs when he won best song.
Back in the 90s, me and my girl Jane saw World Party play live on several occasions. They were “our band” and our favourite song together was Love Street from the Goodbye Jumbo masterpiece.
That’s one of many moments since we spoke about when I first met Karl in February 2021. He was on holiday in Suffolk. I was doing a bit of work at a holiday village there and I looked up, and there was Karl with his family. His wife, Suzie and children, Louis and Nancy. I’d only just seen World Party a few months before at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It was certainly one of the best gigs I had seen him play. When Karl and the kids were out playing golf, Suzie and I chatted about Karl’s work and the Shepherd’s Bush concert and many other things. She also told me that Carl had recorded his version of the complete White album, using exactly the same microphones as the Beatles did. It was funny when Karl found out I was a World Party fan he said we should have you taken out and stuffed! Later that weekend on that very same holiday Karl famously suffered a massive brain aneurysm. I only found out several weeks later.
We know that he disappeared, into more even obscurity, and spent a few years recovering. Still making music, but none of us were able to listen to it. Fast forward a few years to 2012, and on November 2, my friend Nick and I walked round the back of the Royal Albert Hall, where World Party were playing their reunion spectacle in front of the packed house and cameras. Who is the first person we bumped into smoking a quick fag by the back door? Yes, it was Mr. Wallinger. We had a good chat with him. He offered me a fag. I presume he was trying to calm his nerves before going on stage to such a large audience. Then bizarrely, the comedian and talk-show host Clive Anderson turned up, and we were all standing around having a chat. Wished him luck and said our goodbyes.
The last time I saw Karl perform was in Cambridge at the Junction, I think it was the following year. Possibly April 2013. His son Louis was selling merchandise. Another stellar performance by his dad and the rest of the band, of course. And that was it. And I fell back alone.
What a beautiful soul. Taken away from us too soon, but when you’ve written a great song, it’s been written forever, it cannot be unwritten. Just like a film star, you are now immortal. You’ve left your legacy imprinted and recorded.
Thoughts go out to his friends and family. You’ll be greatly missed. You are a legend.
Stephen Dawson
My fave is still Sebastion.
R. I. P Steve Harley
great chat ❤
Released January 1975
Toptastick mate
I remember the late Steve Wright putting in comical sound affects during the gaps in that famous song when he played it on the radio. It does have a very contemptuous, Dylanesque sneer...
@philiphalpenny9761. You may already know this, Steve Harley’s (born Stephen Nice) friendship with Steve Wright goes right back to their early life in New Cross, London, where their families were close. Maybe only Steve W. could get away with the “interjections” because he was a mate.
@@markmiwurdz2248 It wasn't that long ago that Steve Harley had his own Radio 2 show. I just lost my dear mum to cancer at only 66 so I empathise with Steve's family...or any family...going through that heartache...
Very sad news today
Sad news about the Bard of Bradford Street
The Juke Box in the Angel was one of the last that played actual records.
I lived on Bradford Street for a brief time and the Angel was my local - fond memories! ~ Alex
another loss. I certainly agree with this being a song of its time. a pub people head to for it's musical output. very rare.. I know of one, relatively speaking, near by.... I'll have to watch Chelsea game later... farting about. man utd vs liverpool next. cheers...
Apparrently, God said "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)"