Stormcock was a masterpiece. Comprising just four songs, most featuring only Harper and his dizzying skill on acoustic and 12-string guitar, it was emotionally fierce and highly inventive.

For much of a career that began on the London folk scene in the mid-1960s, singer/songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper has been an underground cult figure and symbol of the counterculture, playing the ...

In the early oughts, Alexi Murdoch’s syrupy folk songs soundtracked The O.C. and cult-indie film Garden State - the tranquil beauty of “Orange Sky” will live on forever.

ROY Harper has come to a realisation: Having reached the age of 75, he is now likely to be around when he’s 80. He’s finally going to become a pensioner. “I could actually put in for my old ...

The well-shot DVD of the concert features the same songs as the CD but has the added bonus of preserving Harper's between-song musings. Harper's shared thoughts have been known in the past to take ...

Harper, who has released more than 30 albums, provided vocals for the Pink Floyd track Have a Cigar and inspired the Led Zeppelin song Hats Off to (Roy) Harper.

It is Harper's main asset, especially in songs that can sound similar (following one number, after a welter of vocal echo and guitar-hammering, he admitted "at the end there I could have gone into ...