What Now For Roy Harper?
Tony Stewart, NME, 16 April 1977
IT'S UNLIKELY that Roy Harper would be admitted to a health and happiness club. Because of his seemingly chronic illness he is facing a real possibility that the curtain will prematurely close on his career yet another cruel body blow on top of all the misfortune he's experienced in the past.
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