ROY HARPER : “WHY I SANG 'HAVE A CIGAR' ON PINK FLOYD'S 'WISH YOU WERE HERE' ALBUM “

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@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES 8 ай бұрын

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@TheLucreziia 8 ай бұрын

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.

@gerardtuxen5069 8 ай бұрын

The greatest fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter I've ever come across. True legend

@sirgilmour 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Crinklechip-s 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@WolfgangWhyte 8 ай бұрын

Led Zeppelin was right: Hats Off To Roy Harper!

@rockista4195 8 ай бұрын

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.

@nickhirst999 8 ай бұрын

Your interviews are absolutely fantastic, Mr Edginton! And that is really what I think! Roy does a brilliant vocal on 'Cigar'!

@nickhirst999 7 ай бұрын

Dear Mr Edginton, I don't often smoke cigars but I have just lit a Hamlet (the mild cigar from Benson and Hedges). Now I'm going to listen to the song! Yours truly and sincerely, Nick Hirst

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Nick for describing the scene. I hope you enjoyed the cigar and the video. Here’s a longer version of the interview where Roy describes his trip to Cuba with a cigar at the end of the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6TQe6uOqtmShJI

@nickhirst999 7 ай бұрын

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Thanks for replying John! I remember seeing the BBC Omnibus programme about Syd Barrett and recorded it on VHS. I thought it was SO good that when the DVD came out, I bought it for the extras. When the double DVD came out, I bought it for the extra extras! I saw Pink Floyd at Knebworth though sadly Mr Harper and cigars were no longer part of the mix 15 years later! Clare was there, though! PS. Happy 83rd birthday to Roy!

@Sandwich13455 8 ай бұрын

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"?

@robertmartin8565 8 ай бұрын

That's not how the story goes.

@ryancalhoun2910 8 ай бұрын

It wasn't WYWH

@robertmartin8565 8 ай бұрын

@@ryancalhoun2910 The band was listening to a playback of Shine On You Crazy Diamond when Syd supposedly made that comment.

@papalaz4444244 8 ай бұрын

Forget the key - it makes more dramatic sense for the evil record company guy to be someone outside of Pink Floyd and addressing them.

@BillDollar777 8 ай бұрын

I thought Gilmour sang that song on the album.

@caryheuchert 7 ай бұрын

It’s brilliant how Roy sang the song in a Floydian way, quite different than his usual style.

@davedillon1372 3 ай бұрын

I suppose we're NOT to notice that he's Interviewed by Dave Gilmore‽ Asking for a lot.

@silaslangsyd 3 ай бұрын

Not Dave

@fluxfaze 4 ай бұрын

I remember listening to Have A Cigar over and over trying to figure out which band member was singing it and never certain.

@papalaz4444244 8 ай бұрын

Ironically, Roy did it as a favour and was ripped off :/

@philmathieu1017 3 ай бұрын

Sorry to burst any bubbles but, the first time I listened to the album I knew it was Roy singing 'cause I just looked at the sleeve notes and that's what it said. I therefore struggle to get worked up about anyone getting all touchy about who exactly the singer was, it said so from the start, it's not as if the Floyd pretended one of them was singing. For my money, Roy did a fab job because none of the Floyd members could really give it what it needed, moreover, it is entirely appropriate that it should be someone outside the band singing as it expresses the point of view of a music publishing executive.

@jjgillo 8 күн бұрын

from 4:51 Roy explains that it was 15 years before they credited him and goes on to say it was a shame it caused a rift.

@papalaz4444244 8 ай бұрын

Amazing. Roger never did himself any favours, did he? Roy nailed the song and the character. That would have riled Roger further :/

@200405InVision 8 ай бұрын

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.

@mikearchibald744 8 ай бұрын

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.

@200405InVision 8 ай бұрын

@@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

@mikearchibald744 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@200405InVision 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@joeking433 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, Roger sucked as usual.

@Swat-ed5bt 8 ай бұрын

I wonder what, if anything you've achieved 😂

@joeking433 8 ай бұрын

@@Swat-ed5bt FAR, FAR more than Roger! All Roger has done is made a bunch of cynical pricks like himself.

@mikearchibald744 8 ай бұрын

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.