◇ image via WikipediaSteve Harley
Steve Harley is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bob Dylan and Big Country. Those roots explain a lot about how Steve Harley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Mott the Hoople, Slade, Sweet and Mud, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Rod Stewart, Patricia Paay, The Alan Parsons Project, T. Rex and Kate Bush, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Steve Harley, reaching back through Bob Dylan and forward to Rod Stewart. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice, known by his stage name Steve Harley, was an English singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel. The band achieved five UK hit albums, including The Psychomodo (1974) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1975), and six UK hit singles in the mid-1970s, including "Judy Teen", "Mr. Soft", and the number one "Make Me Smile ". Harley later scored a further three UK hit singles as a solo artist, most notably with "The Phantom of the Opera", a duet with Sarah Brightman, in 1986.
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Steve Harley connections
Steve Harley grew out of Bob Dylan and Big Country, shares an orbit with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Mott the Hoople, Slade and Sweet, went on to shape Rod Stewart, Patricia Paay, The Alan Parsons Project and T. Rex. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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