Peace, Love and a Punchup with Ginger Baker: The Saga of Roy Harper
Len Brown, NME, 23 June 1990
After 25 years on life's acoustic stage, ROY HARPER is undoubtedly King Of The Hippies. In a moment of good karma, NME let the man who once contacted anthrax by kissing an infected sheep spill the mung beans to LEN BROWN.
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