Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel frontman, dies aged 73

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Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel frontman, dies aged 73
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English singer and songwriter was best known for his song Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

The English singer and songwriter, best known for his 1975 song Make Me Smile , had been receiving treatment for cancer. He died at his Suffolk home on Sunday morning.

Patrick Freyne: 12 reasons why it hasn’t always been cool to be Irish - including Murder, She Wrote and BatmanHarley’s family said they knew the singer would be “desperately missed by people all over the world”. Harley was born in southeast London in 1951 and spent almost four years in hospital as a child after contracting polio. At the age of 17, he joined the Daily Express as a trainee accountant before working as a journalist for several regional newspapers including the East London Advertiser.

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