Cockney Rebel: The Psychomodo (Capitol)
Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 11 November 1974
WITH A LOT more guts than sense, Steve Harley dissolved Cockney Rebel in late July, causing their second album, The Psychomodo, to fall like a corpse from the British charts where it had been hanging comfortably around number twenty.
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