The Psychomodo

Cockney Rebel’s album The Psychomodo was released in the UK on June 2, 1974.

According to Harley at the time of its upcoming release, the album generated approximately 12,000 advance sales. Preceding the album was the first single, the title track "Psychomodo". It was released in mid-May 1974, but was quickly withdrawn in the UK as "Judy Teen" continued to climb the charts. It was given a full release in Europe and entered the charts in Belgium. When it was released in June, The Psychomodo proved to be the band's breakthrough in the UK Albums Chart. It reached its peak at number 8 on September 14, 1974, by which time Cockney Rebel had split up. In late July 1974, EMI released "Mr. Soft" as the album's second single. It was a chart success, reaching number 8 in the UK Singles Chart. Harley had to form two impromptu line-ups of Cockney Rebel in order to perform the song on Top of the Pops.

EMI did not release The Psychomodo in the US until January 1975 (under the new band name, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel), with "Tumbling Down" also being issued there as a promotional single. Harley was frustrated by the length of time it took to release the album in the US and told Rock Scene in 1975, "There was over six months lag for Psychomodo. I don't know exactly why. There's no excuse for that really. Maybe someone didn't have faith in us over here until now."

The album received its first CD release by EMI in 1990. It included two bonus tracks, Harley's 1974 debut solo single "Big Big Deal", and the B-side of the "Psychomodo" and "Mr. Soft" singles, "Such a Dream". In 2001, BGO Records reissued the album in the UK, but without any bonus tracks.

In 2012, the album was included in its entirety on the remastered four-disc box-set anthology compilation album Cavaliers: An Anthology 1973–1974. The release also included previously unreleased 'early versions' of many of the debut album tracks, as well as B-sides and live tracks from the period.[23] On 24 November 2012, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, supported by an orchestra and chamber choir, performed The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo albums in their entirety live at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. The performance was released in 2013 as CD and DVD releases under the title Birmingham (Live with Orchestra & Choir). The same show was performed live four more times in 2014 at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Sage Gateshead, London's Royal Albert Hall, and again at the Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Info courtesy of Wikipedia