Cockney Rebel: The Mellowing Of Mr Harley
Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, 9 November 1974
STEVE HARLEY just sits there a-glowering, looking, if one can, defiantly mellow. The suggestion that the arrogant ol' sour puss has softened up a bit doesn't please him at all – but it's true all the same. Didn't I just catch him being inordinately polite to a photographer?
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