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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 17, 2024 18:56:23 GMT
Lost to us, aged 73. RIP, Steve - and thanks for this...
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Post by gazz on Mar 18, 2024 8:35:14 GMT
An all-time classic, Maccy, not least for the story behind it.
RIP, Steve.
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Post by gazz on Mar 18, 2024 8:55:32 GMT
Here's something I didn't know. Paul Jeffreys, one of the original band members that walked out on Harley, was killed along with his wife on Pan Am Flight 103. Harley in a 2017 interview with The Guardian: "I saw a lot of the original bass-player, Paul Jeffreys, after the split. I think he regretted leaving until the day he died. He was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, going on his honeymoon." It's included in the following interview about how the song came about: www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/feb/27/how-we-made-cockney-rebel-make-me-smile-come-up-and-see-me |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Mar 18, 2024 9:11:17 GMT
One of our favourite go-to songs at guitar club.
Legendary. RIP Mr Cockney Rebel
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 18, 2024 10:14:03 GMT
You'll know more about the technicalities than me, Lennie, but I've heard somewhere that the acoustic guitar middle-eight solo is an especially difficult piece to play?
After Jim Cregan (who is playing it in the clip I posted) left the band two or three years later, his successor Cockney Rebels experienced all manner of problems getting it right.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Mar 18, 2024 10:32:41 GMT
The middle eight is one that we definitely by-pass, as we do the intricate intro !!
Our fingers are not fast enough, and neither is the brain.
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