Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 38 No. 22. September 11, 1975

The Best Years of our Lives — Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel — EMI EMC 3068

The Best Years of our Lives — Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

EMI EMC 3068

Steve Harley is yer actual tortured psychopath right out of London's East End — from Bromley on London's outer border, or to be more precise, from Beckenham, a Bromley constituent; whose own self-admitted closest affiliation to rock is Bob Dylan and who says he knows more about Coleridge, Shelley and Keats than the Rolling Stones. Could be just more pop star promo bullshit, for all I know, but on this, his group's third release, he provides articulately and credibly, sufficient evidence to prove that he really means it. Certainly The Best Years of Our Lives' is more than most a little bit intriguing.

— Patrick O'Dea