Roy Harper

Roy Harper ( Manchester , June 12 1941 ) is an English blues -, rock - and folk singer . Many British musicians have been inspired by him. ==[Biography  edit ] == After the death of his mother, he grew up in Blackpool with his father and stepmother, with whom he could not get along because of her faith ( Jehovah's Witnesses ). His anti-religious view was later a familiar theme in his music.

He sang the lead in Have a Cigar on the album Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd . He is also known for the song Hats Off to (Roy) Harper on the album Led Zeppelin III .Harper made more than twenty albums, eight for Harvest, the progressive EMI label. In that sense he was a colleague of, among others, Deep Purple and Pink Floyd. When he sang Have a Cigar for the album Wish You Were Here, he himself was busy with his album HQ.

In 1977 he had a hit with One of those days in England, with Paul and Linda McCartney on backing vocals.

Roy survived the eighties and nineties and made many records. Around 1986 for even weather EMI, with whom he has a love-hate relationship. After 2000, the flow stopped plates; it appeared in 2006, his first and only DVD.

In 1999 he was inducted into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame . ==[Discography  edit ] ==
 * Sophisticated Beggar (1967)
 * Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith (1967)
 * Folk Joke Opus (1969)
 * Flat Baroque And Berserk (1970)
 * Storm Cock (1971)
 * Life Mask (1973)
 * Valentine (1974)
 * Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion (1974, live)
 * HQ (1975, with Chris Spedding, Bill Bruford & Dave Cochrane)
 * Bullinamingvase (1977)
 * Harper 1970-1975 (1978)
 * The Unknown Soldier (1980, with Kate Bush)
 * Work Of Heart (1982)
 * Born In Captivity (1984)
 * Whatever Happened To Jugula? (1985, with Jimmy Page)
 * In Between Every Line (1986)
 * Descendants Of Smith / Garden Of Uranium (1988)
 * Loony On The Bus (1988)
 * Once (1990)
 * Burn The World (1990)
 * Death Or Glory? (1992)
 * Unhinged (1993)
 * Commercial Breaks (1994)
 * An Introduction To ... (1994)
 * Live At '69 Les Cousins ​​(1996)
 * The BBC Tapes, Volume I (1997)
 * The BBC Tapes, Volume II (1997)
 * The BBC Tapes, Volume III (1997)
 * The BBC Tapes, Volume IV (1997)
 * The BBC Tapes, Volume V (1997)
 * The BBC Tapes, Volume VI (1997)
 * Poems, Speeches, Thoughts & Doodles (1997)
 * The Dream Society (1998)
 * The Green Man (2000)
 * East Of The Sun (2000)
 * Royal Festival Hall London - June 10th 2001 (2001)
 * Today Is Yesterday (2002)
 * The Death Of God - CD single (April 2005)
 * Counter Culture - double compilation CD (May 2005)
 * Beyond The Door - DVD (December 2005)
 * Roy Harper - Songs Of Love And Loss - compilation (2011)
 * Man and Myth (2013)