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Released 1974. If you like your Roy Harper live then 'Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion' is a very good record. The boys from EMI, headed by John Leckie, turned up to gigs on a regular basis for about a year. They bustled away in the background with techno talk. Sometimes they were in the foreground, muttering and tittering.

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Roy Harper BBC Sessions. John Peel Session 1975 with Trigger. John Peel Session 1977 with Chips. John Peel Session 1978 with Andy Roberts.

Packaging redesign by Harry Pearce at Pentagram.

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Roy Harper BBC Sessions. In Concert 1978 with Andy Roberts.

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Released 1998. The Dream Society was written after a long self-imposed retreat from gigging, writing and recording. The record was made in Ireland where I now live. It was a good time for me. A complete renewal of spirit.

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I had an idea to keep this record purely acoustic. I succeeded in the main. The only non-acoustic instrument is Johnny Fitz's Fender Rhodes sound on 'The Monster'.

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Released 1995. Love songs are a great part of the emotional journal. Arrivals into consciousness of some past moment is a continuous experience. Sometimes the distance from reality to dream is too close and I read through a lyric in my mind to relive a time, a circumstance, a terror, a passion, a desire. A face, turned to the side, long flowing hair underneath a beret. A fleeting recollection of an attitude, a hope, a care... a secret longing..

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Released 2002. 'Today Is Yesterday' is a collection of some of my earliest songs. The first nine songs all date from 1964/5. From a time when I was trying things out as a songwriter. Previously I'd only been interested in writing poetry.

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This compilation is a powerful restatement of Harper's core talents, even though it only hints at his considerable versatility and his vaunting ambition. HIs songs are more than worthy of rediscovery - and it is wonderful that his compilation and the ensuing reissue programme may bring him to an entirely new audience within his own lifetime. - Music OMH

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