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Roy Harper (born 12 June 1941) is an English folk rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has released 22 studio albums (and 10 live ones) across a career that stretches back to 1966. As a musician, Harper is known for his distinctive fingerstyle playing and lengthy, lyrical, complex compositions, reflecting his love of jazz and ...
That man is Roy Harper. Now officially ‘retired’, and living in a secluded corner of Ireland, Harper has recently been hailed as a key influence by a much younger generation of devoted starsailors who instinctively recognise his innovations, his refusal to compromise and his visionary world view.
Oct 21, 2022 · Folk stylist, protest singer, poet, rocker, rebel prophet… There hasn’t been anyone else quite like Roy Harper. His sheer plurality, lashed to a bloody-minded refusal to tailor his music for the commercial market, has made him special, and also consigned him to a career of eternal cultdom.
Roy Harper could reasonably be called “the most influential guitarist named Roy you’ve never heard of”, though he might have to fend off Roy Buchanan in a cage match for the title.
Roy Harper is one of the few surviving singer-songwriters from the counterculture of the 60’s who is still creatively engaged in new composition and in progressing a body of work that has...
Jun 12, 2024 · In 1971 revolutionary singer-songwriter Roy Harper was about to go deep into the world of concept rock – but his four-track opus got buried by his label. In 2011 Prog found out why.
Oct 25, 2021 · Beloved country music singer Roy Harper has died. Harper passed away in mid-October at the age of 96, the Tennessee Folklore Society confirmed. In a statement, the organization said, 'we are sad to mark the passing of singer and painter Roy Harper,' remembering him as 'an admired interpreter of [...]
