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"Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" is a song by British rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released as the lead single from the band's album ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' in 1975. Written by Harley, it reached the number one spot on the UK chart, spending nine weeks in the top 50. The song received a UK Silver certification in February 1975〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Certified Awards )〕 and has sold around 1.5 million copies worldwide as of February 2015. More than 120 cover versions of the song have been recorded by other artists, most notably by Duran Duran and Erasure, although Harley has stated his favourite cover version is by The Wedding Present.〔 ==Writing and composition== The song was the first release under the band name "Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel", as opposed to simply "Cockney Rebel". In 1974 the original lineup of Cockney Rebel split, and Harley then revived the name by assembling a new line-up. The song itself described Harley's feelings on the split of the original line-up, after three band members walked out on him. For many years, it was believed that Harley purposely chose to disband the original line-up and start on a new career path. However years later Harley began to reveal the truth behind the band's split. In 1973 EMI Records had signed the band to record three albums, and with Harley being the sole songwriter for the group, he reaped the majority of the financial rewards. After a UK tour promoting the second album ''The Psychomodo'', three of the band members, led by Milton Reame-James, approached Harley insisting they too were going to write songs for the third album. However Harley felt this was unfair as he had been the one to originally hire the musicians for his group, and explained the deal to them at the time. The band split as a result, with only drummer Stuart Elliott joining Harley's second lineup of the group. In a television interview recorded in 2002, Harley described how the lyrics were vindictively directed at the former band members who, he felt, had abandoned him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Songfacts )〕 On ''The One Show'' in October 2010, Harley called the lyric "a finger-pointing piece of vengeful poetry. It's getting off my chest how I felt about the guys splitting up a perfectly workable machine." When revealing the story behind the song he explained: "Three of them came to me in a little posse with several ultimatums. They wanted to write songs for the third Cockney Rebel album, and I said 'Well you know I started the band, and I auditioned you, and I told you the deal at the time. We're not moving the goal posts here.' They knew this, and they came to me demanding that they could write songs too, and just said 'Well go and do it then'." When describing the meaning behind the song title he revealed: "I wrote it saying 'Look you'll learn how well we're doing here, we're doing well, why are you doing this?' Harley began work on the song only days after the band split, and in January 2012 he told ''Uncut'' magazine that the first verse was probably written at four in the morning after a bottle of brandy, feeling sorry for himself. On ''The One Show'' Harley added, "I was in distress, there's no doubt at all, out of adversity I had to talk about it, I had to write about it. I had to say these things, I had to get it off my chest."〔 In ''One Thousand UK Number One Hits'' by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, Harley recalled the end of Cockney Rebel version 1: "We split up because they wanted to take my leadership away. They wanted to dilute it and "Make Me Smile" is saying 'Come back one day and I'll laugh.' It was arrogant but I knew they were wrong - they didn't understand the group like I did."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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