“It could have been a huge record, but they buried it… It was his time but the boat just sailed away”: Despite his label's disinterest, Roy Harper’s Stormcock refused to die

In 1971 revolutionary singer-songwriter Roy Harper was about to go deep into the world of concept rock – but his four-track opus got buried by his label. There are many ways to describe Roy Harper, but ‘conventional’ has never been one of them. With the same studio again available, and a searing new set of compositions, Harper began making Stormcock. It remains Harper’s own personal highlight of Stormcock. With Stormcock, Roy managed to make a record that embraced a lot of prog rock aspects within the context of the sort of music he wrote.”