ROY HARPER INTERVIEW: HOW HE CAME TO SING 'HAVE A CIGAR' ON PINK FLOYD'S 'WISH YOU WERE HERE' ALBUM
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In 2011, I interviewed musician ROY HARPER about his surprising role in the making of Pink Floyd's album 'Wish You Were Here' .
Roy sang the song "Have A Cigar" on the album.
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Oh Roy lovely to see you again, I had the pleasure to see you live a great many times back in the day. Got all the albums you are a legend and a diamond thank you my old friend.
Thank you for reuploading this interview, it's one of my favourites in your Pink Floyd catalogue. Roy Harper appears to be a great guy. Once more his words confirm my impression about Roger Waters: he is a great preacher but at times incoherent with what he preaches. Have a cigar is a song about the record company manager not understanding the artist. In the Have a Cigar story, it's Roger (and the rest of the band) not understanding Roy, so doing to someone exactly what he was complaining about in his song.
The greatest fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter I've ever come across. True legend
I would take a full length documentary on this mythical man, wouldn't you be interested in this project? He has a stunning body of work.
Led Zeppelin was right: Hats Off To Roy Harper!
Your interviews are absolutely fantastic, Mr Edginton! And that is really what I think! Roy does a brilliant vocal on 'Cigar'!
Theres a pic of waters playing an acoustic with syd behind him sneering,could it be the time when waters played him wish you were here and syd quipped "it sounds a bit old"?
That's not how the story goes.
It wasn't WYWH
@@ryancalhoun2910 The band was listening to a playback of Shine On You Crazy Diamond when Syd supposedly made that comment.
Now David Gilmour, and Richard Wright (RIP) called "Wish You Were Here" their favourite Pink Floyd record. Go figure.
I thought Gilmour sang that song on the album.
Forget the key - it makes more dramatic sense for the evil record company guy to be someone outside of Pink Floyd and addressing them.
Ironically, Roy did it as a favour and was ripped off :/
Like Roy Harper and recognise his influence on Waters as a lyricist. For me though the extraction boot tape version, with Harper, Gilmour & Waters vocals on it is the better version. Yeah, yeah...
Ironically more people know of Roy due to Cigar. Payback to him there inestimable.
Well he's been up front about that as well as the Led Zeppelin and has always said he 'sort of' appreciates it but at the same time there ARE artists in the world perfectly happy to toil in relative obscurity so long as its THEIR created obscurity and not due to others.
@@mikearchibald744 Surely if an artist wants 'obscurity' then whatever they do will have or seek no audience or the prospect of one either? Just a private hobby or activity. I'd hardly put Roy Harper in that category. Once you decide to make a living doing it then an entrepreneurial choice is made
@@200405InVision There's a big difference between being Pink Floyd and playing to yourself in the shower. There's also a difference between building an audience and having your advertising done by somebody else. Either way, I'm simply repeating what Roy Harper said in an interview, so you can take it up with him.
@@mikearchibald744 He could have sung it Have A Cigar for free. I get it he missed out on some good royalty cheques. Saying that Floyd in my opinion made the wrong choice. The band should have attempted it with Harper as a guest backing vocalist. I think Waters now agrees. Anyway Roy got loads of kudos for it. He should stop moaning.
Amazing. Roger never did himself any favours, did he? Roy nailed the song and the character. That would have riled Roger further :/
Yeah, Roger sucked as usual.
Without Waters there would be no Pink Floyd. Just some nameless B grade rock band. To say he sucked is the mark of a very arrested opinion.
I wonder what, if anything you've achieved 😂
@@Swat-ed5bt FAR, FAR more than Roger! All Roger has done is made a bunch of cynical pricks like himself.
LOL, those arguments always come up. But it would be nice to hear Rogers view, every story has two sides. I find it absolutely bizarre to think that these guys are THIS rich and they seriously won't pay for a cricket seat for a guy who sang one of their songs? Thats just beyond weird. Its not like the other guys don't have free will or contact with their manager.
Roger Waters is 'adversarial' with EVERYONE. "Don't sweat it Roy, he's just a dick."