Roy Harper shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt, including working with Led Zeppelin, Paul Simon and Bert Jansch. First broadcast in 2013. Show more In a programme first broadcast in ...

Roy Harper is a hard one to pigeon hole. He appeared during the folk boom of the 60s and his career has spanned the time. He was semi-retired in rural Ireland when he was inspired to begin writing ...

This beautifully recorded CD/DVD will serve as a fine introduction for newcomers to Harper's music, and a worthwhile (if somewhat nostalgic) document of one of the great singer/songwriters in his 70th ...

The outsider no more - Harper's first album in 13 years is a magnificent, ambitious rejuvenation... Between 1967 and 1975, Roy Harper produced a series of albums of increasingly vaulting ambition ...

An outsider to the outsiders, a freak among the freaks, Harper nevertheless found himself signed to Columbia in 1967 for his second album, Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith, which is now being ...

The label took an instant dislike to Stormcock, while EMI’s American arm, Capitol, refused to release his 1975 album HQ because of its “blasphemous” sleeve depicting Harper walking on water.

IN 1977, just as punk rock was taking hold, self-styled folk rock “outsider” Roy Harper released Bullinamingvase, an album which, for all its melodic richness, was every bit as angry as those ...

Roy Harper could be prickly when crossed – he once sent me a 28-page letter angrily explaining why my review of one of his albums was wide of the mark – but he was the most thoughtful of late ...

ROY HARPERMan & Myth (Bella Union) ★★★★½ You cannot deny this guy’s capacity to conjure druid folk from the very elementary aspects of human folly. He is a bit like a truffle.