Bloomsbury Group down to London. In 1905 Vanessa began the "Friday Club" and Thoby ran "Thursday Evenings", which became the basis for the Bloomsbury Group, which to some was really "Cambridge in London". Thoby's premature death in 1906 brought them more firmly together and they became what is now known as the "Old Bloomsbury" group who met in earnest beginning in 1912. In the 1920s and 1930s the group shifted when the original members died and the next generation had reached adulthood. The Bloomsbury Group, mostly from upper middle-class professional families, formed part of "an intellectual aristocracy which could trace itself back
The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel album, and "The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel" was released in November 1980. It was the band's first compilation to be released in the UK. The compilation features twelve tracks spanning from 1973 to 1978. Six are Cockney Rebel tracks from 1973-74, four are Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel tracks from 1975-76, and two are from Harley's solo career, which were 1974's "Big Big Deal" and 1978's "Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)". Of the chosen inclusions, "Cavaliers" and "Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)" were never released as singles. In effort to promote the compilation, EMI re-issued