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It was only yesterday that I was looking at the "List of Stage Names" page on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stage_names - and I just happened to see a certain musician on that page who had the birth name of Stephen Nice on the list. It was indeed nice that he changed it and that he happened to take the familiar stage name of Steve Harley. He became famous as the main member of Cockney Rebel, had several hits including the number one hit "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" in which I heard recently while shopping in a local Tesco Express just a few weeks ago. Harley has died at the age of 73.
Just a few months before his number one victor, he also had the relatively minor hit "Mr Soft" which was written by Harley and was used to advertise Trebor Softmints in around 1987 - does anyone remember that advert which consisted of a man walking down a street, looking just as soft and padded as everything around him was (a bit like how the cardboard cutouts in the Paddington Bear series were seen on screen), in which everything else was all white and was otherwise just colourless, and soft such as the trees, buildings and even walks into the lamppost that he knocks himself out at the end? Even one of the kids at school used to interrupt the teacher during lessons and singing it, mostly because of the advert rather than the original 1974 hit.
Another big one gone.
Just a few months before his number one victor, he also had the relatively minor hit "Mr Soft" which was written by Harley and was used to advertise Trebor Softmints in around 1987 - does anyone remember that advert which consisted of a man walking down a street, looking just as soft and padded as everything around him was (a bit like how the cardboard cutouts in the Paddington Bear series were seen on screen), in which everything else was all white and was otherwise just colourless, and soft such as the trees, buildings and even walks into the lamppost that he knocks himself out at the end? Even one of the kids at school used to interrupt the teacher during lessons and singing it, mostly because of the advert rather than the original 1974 hit.
Another big one gone.
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