1. Roy Harper – Stormcock
2. Beatles – White Album
3. Captain Beefheart – Lick my Decals off
4. Bob Dylan – Bringing it all back home
5. Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
6. Love – Forever Changes
7. Doors – Strange Days
8. Mothers of Invention – We’re only in it for the money
9. Cream – Disraeli Gears
10. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
11. Pink Floyd – Wish you were here
12. Country Joe & the Fish – Electric Music for the Body & Mind
13. Neil Young – Harvest
14. Joni Mitchell – Blue
15. Bob Marley – Exodus
16. John Lennon – Imagine
17. Sex Pistols – Never mind the Bollocks
18. Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
19. Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard
20. Son House – Death Letter Blues
Top Ten Rock Bands
Here are the Top 10 Rock Bands of All Time (according to AI):
- The Beatles
- Led Zeppelin
- The Rolling Stones
- Pink Floyd
- Queen
- The Who
- Nirvana
- U2
- AC/DC
- Guns N’ Roses
Top six are all British. One is Irish. One is Australian and only 2 are American!
Of course, my choice would be a little different:
1.Beatles
2. Stones
3. Roy Harper
4. Captain Beefheart
5. Bob Dylan
6. Ian Dury
7. Pink Floyd
8. Who
9. Billy Bragg
10. Love
11. Doors
My BEST Gigs of all time!!
Difficult picking out best gigs. They are all so subjective and memory plays tricks. Here are the ones that come to mind:
- Roy Harper at St Pancreas Town Hall 1968
- Jimi Hendrix Bath Festival – 1970
- Son House – Hammersmith Odeon – 1968
- Captain Beefheart – Rainbow – 1973
- Cream – Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival – 1968
- Roy Harper – Les Cousins – 1969
- Fleetwood Mac – Toby Jug – 1968
- Pink Floyd – Fishmonger’s Arms – 1969
- Ian Dury – Bridlington -1980
- Elvis Costello – York – 1983
- Nick Harper – Sheffield 1990
- James Varda – Leeds 1996
- Bob Dylan – Sheffield 1998
- Incredible String Band – Roundhouse 1973
- Captain Beefheart – Middle Earth – 1968
- Magic Band – Leeds 2010
- Jimi Hendrix – Royal Albert Hall 1970
- Led Zeppelin – Toby Jug – 1970
- Who – Hull -2008
- Fall – Hull 2018
- North Mississippi Allstars – York 2020
- Wilko Johnson – Driffield – 2019
- White Stripes – Bridlington – 2010
- Stiff Little Fingers – Hull 2019
- Billy Bragg – Hull 1985
- Jimmy Reed – 1970
- Free – pub in London 1969
- Leon Rosselson – Beverley 1994
- Roy and Nick Harper – Beverley – 1996
- Skip James, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams – Hammersmith 1969
- Jackson C Frank – Ilford 1969
- Roy Harper – Ewell Tech – 1969
- Grateful Dead – San Francisco – 2011
- Love – York 2012
- Joan Baez – Baton Rouge – 2014
- Muddy Waters – London 1970
- Country Joe and Fish – Royal Albert Hall – 1970
- Rambling Jack Elliott – Leeds 2010
- Bert Jansch and John Renbourn – Les Cousins 1968
- Ron Geesin, Roy Harper, Ralph McTell – Royal Festival Hall 1971
- Pink Floyd – Hyde Park 1968
- Edgar Broughton Band – London 1969
- Nice – Croydon 1970
All those dates are guesswork!! I will have missed a lot out! I could have put no end of Roy Harper gigs in. Then there were all the festivals, the free concerts and stuff.