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Roy Harper: Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios, London

by Ian Patterson
June 8, 2013

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 length and breadth of England to fiercely loyal fans. Harper's best gigs have the intimacy of a confessional, the passion of a Speaker's Corner harangue and the madcap insights of a surrealist comedian--and that's just the banter between songs. Harper's love songs invite bittersweet tears and his ...