Hands like titan
Though exquisite and mannerist
A honed performer
Tickets for Hengelo jeder?
Dropped dressing up
Turn up atmospheric lighting
A honed performer
Hij hield van zijn kunst en koersterde die
Pablo Fanque follow that
Circus games - the skids
A honed performer
If he thought he could waltz...
Richard Coeur de Lion
Or Star For A Week (Dino)
A honed performer (the last street-song)
He saw a new day forming...
Expressionist defiant gesture
Dramatic harmonic string arrangements
A honed performer
The Scousers sang their hearts out
Sometimes intimate venues
Heightened surround sound experience
A honed performer
Woe betide eating after eight - in Pizza Express
Cheltenham Town Hall
One last surreal envelopment (mine)
A honed performer
Enter on Dali-esque crutch - we love Harley even more
What he did
No stranger could do - not in our town
A honed and dedicated performer
Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice
Jem H (2026)
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"We can go to a hop and do Suburban Hop, cool and sharply..."
Harley, 'What Ruthy Said' (1973)
P.S. This song was in my head when I awoke this morning.
Just take a look at my Solstice thread, in the questions part of the Forum, especially if you live in England...We should all care about this...all the best...hope to chat again, after a while...depending upon the status quo? X
Morning thoughts: Sitting in my armchair, looking at the bookshelves that we bought late last year and the books on the second shelf. L to R (the first seven...) 'The Blue Planet', Byatt et al, BBC (2001), 'The Planets', McNab and Younger, BBC (1999), 'Space', Gribben, BBC (2001), 'Universe', Couper and Henbest, Channel 4 (1999), 'Land Of The Tiger', Thapar, BBC (1997), 'Earth Story', Lamb and Sington, BBC (1998), 'Tell Me Why' Annual 1971 (IPC Magazines Ltd. 1970)...
...here, Harley entered my mind. I wasn't a teenager back then, that had yet to come. T Rex I knew because I had a friend whose older brother had 'Ride A White Swan', which I liked. I also remember Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4, but it was them slightly rockier than I was to know them, half a dozen years later. George also played 'Paranoid', by Black Sabbath (and Ozzy's death last year, the year after Steve's, also entered my mind and the surviving Osbornes at the Brits, only the other night). I didn't mind it, but preferred the first two.
When I was reading that annual for the first time, just before 1971 dawned, Steve Harley might have been thinking about performing, on his own as a busker and with other musicians, as part of Odin. In 1972, the excitement would build. In 1973, ..it [blew] my mind like you'll never know...1974 and 1975, still gathered pace...
