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- He emerged from London’s boho folk circuit of the 60s as a singer-songwriter of alarming intensity, motored by a mistrust of authority and an inalienable belief in everyone’s basic right to individual freedom. While other folkies were protesting the Vietnam War, Harper was railing against deeper societal ills.
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Sep 30, 2013 · He was a brilliant businessman as well as an ogre who had a reputation for breaking people’s fingers for just looking at him in the wrong way. He was someone you did not cross in any...
After two years Harper rejected the rigid discipline and feigned madness to obtain a military discharge, as a result receiving an electroconvulsive therapy treatment at Princess Mary's RAF Hospital, Wendover. After being discharged from there, he spent one day inside the former Lancaster Moor Mental Institute before escaping.
Mar 4, 2019 · After over 30 solo albums and over 55 years in the music business, Roy Harper still has a lot to say. Although 77, he says, “I’ve never thought of myself as old yet”, but admits that this will be his last tour.
Oct 19, 2008 · In 1970, Led Zeppelin recorded the tribute “Hats Off to Roy Harper” and put it on the folk-leaning, III. Harper remembers how he heard about the song.
Jun 12, 2024 · There are many ways to describe Roy Harper, but ‘conventional’ has never been one of them. He emerged from London’s boho folk circuit of the 60s as a singer-songwriter of alarming intensity, motored by a mistrust of authority and an inalienable belief in everyone’s basic right to individual freedom. While other folkies were protesting ...
Mar 18, 2019 · Harper was unclassifiable, so much so that the music industry didn’t understand him or his art. CBS and Liberty had let him go in the late 60s, only for him to be picked up by EMI’s newly-minted progressive label, Harvest, at the turn of the following decade.
Oct 1, 2013 · Singer songwriter Roy Harper is a quietly understated luminary who has gently altered the English songbook over five decades with his lyrical integrity and masterful musicianship.
