Cockney Rebel Archives - Phil Andrews

Glam, Retro-Glam and Disco – What a Wonderful Time to Have Been Young

January 2, 2022August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

To understand the unique place that 1976 holds in the annals of popular music and culture, it is first necessary to reflect awhile on what had gone immediately before. As the Summer of Love passed into the realms of ever more distant memory and the seemingly interminable 1960s – with its mods and rockers, beats […]

Steve Harley – ’70s Creative Legend, Ongoing Creative Legend and Good Bloke

October 2, 2019April 21, 2026Phil Andrews1 Comment

There was something else about 1974, and thereabouts, which deserves a mention. Those who, like me, first discovered pop music when it was at its glammiest, in my case during the peak Slade-Sweet-Glitter era of 1972-73, felt just a twinge of disconcertment when the genre seemed to tweak itself in the direction of 1950s nostalgia a year or so later.