Roy Harper: 'I fought like hell to stay alive'

Despite 33 albums of startlingly original music, and nods from Led Zeppelin and McCartney, the public failed to join Roy Harper's party – until five years ago. Alexis Petridis spoke to the songwriterIn a central London hotel bar, Roy Harper is explaining his grand theory to me. It is the premise, he says, on which all his work – including the early-1970s albums that made him the most original, and the most underrated of the singer-songwriters who followed the 60s folk boom – is predicated,...

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