Steve Harley / Cockney Rebel - Best of2008 collection from the British rocker and his ever present band. Scoring a slew of hits in the '70's, Harley was popular with his fanatic audience but had a hate love hate relationship with the press which caused friction within the revolving Cockney Rebel line up. This album is packed with all of Steve Harley's biggest hits including 'Judy Teen', 'Mr. Soft', 'Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)', 'Mr. Raffels' and 'Here Comes the Sun'. 16 tracks.

In his notorious masterpiece THE GREAT DICTATOR

'Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)'

Together with his piano accompanist Gleb Koroleff

"As one of the best professional players in Italy on the lute and theorbo

Boo Wacka Boo

and his other Top 3 hits "Over The Rainbow"

all the energy and power of Britten's fifth opera

which pairs Steven Mackey's moving

Based on the James Patterson novel

and I found opportunities to embrace the intimacy possible in stripped-down solo versions

and very excited by the potential I could immediately hear as I listened to them with that in mind

from which the instrument travelled to America where it discovered it's promised land - executes the mellow melodies of the tango with a lightness