{"id":16183,"date":"2012-10-23T11:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2012-10-23T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:47:49","slug":"not-what-i-expected-steve-harley-cockney-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/not-what-i-expected-steve-harley-cockney-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Not What I Expected: Steve Harley &#038; Cockney Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know those artists whose albums you&#8217;ve seen sitting in used bins as long as you&#8217;ve been a music lover, bands like <strong>Bloodwyn Pig<\/strong>, <strong>The Strawbs<\/strong>, and <strong>Steve Harley &amp; Cockney Rebel<\/strong>? Well, Cockney Rebel just came up in the <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> biography I&#8217;m reading, and I thought it was time I check them out. This is the first clip I tried:<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dckdQHuDdcw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Not what I expected! I need <strong>Happiness Stan<\/strong> and our long, lost friend <strong>tonyola<\/strong> to put their heads together and explain this band. I know we&#8217;ve got some other Brits and maybe even some closet-prog fans (if, indeed, this is a genre in which this band was loosely categorized) on board. Maybe they can help me. Let&#8217;s try another song by these guys:<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPsIJrq30PI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Highly confusing!<\/p>\n<p>Surely one more song will help me piece together what this band was all about:<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LSgws2uMv2Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Yikes! I can imagine a young <strong>Andy Partridge<\/strong> and <strong>Colin Moulding<\/strong> digging this song. I regret having made this connection.<\/p>\n<p>UK friends, is this your buried 1970s, the part you leave out of documentaries and period pieces? Is this your <strong>Pablo Cruise<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TBHfWQHDDE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/not-what-i-expected-steve-harley-cockney-rebel\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/not-what-i-expected-steve-harley-cockney-rebel\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/not-what-i-expected-steve-harley-cockney-rebel\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know those artists whose albums you&#8217;ve seen sitting in used bins as long as you&#8217;ve been a music lover, bands like Bloodwyn Pig, The Strawbs, and Steve Harley &amp; Cockney Rebel? 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