"Once" is the sixteenth studio album by English rock/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper, released in 1990. David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Nick Harper and Nigel Mazlyn Jones appear on the album, with Gilmour and Bush both on the title track. Harper supported the release of the album by touring the UK. One of the concerts took place at the Dominion Theatre (a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road in the London Borough of Camden) and was filmed. The concert took place on the 22 November 1990, the same night Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as Prime Minister. The concert film was later released as Roy Harper Once - Live. "Once" is the sixteenth studio album by English rock/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper, released in 1990. David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Nick Harper and Nigel Mazlyn Jones appear on the album, with Gilmour and Bush both on the title track. Harper supported the release of the album by touring the UK. One of the concerts took place at the Dominion Theatre (a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road in the London Borough of Camden) and was filmed. The concert took place on the 22 November 1990, the same night Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as Prime Minister. The concert film was later released as Roy Harper Once - Live. false 2024-02-03 22:43:04 Once 1990 1990-01-01 1990-01-01 42 Progressive Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter 127893 2201404 7c7933a8-9a97-473a-a63f-004a2285ea5e 8fc0c1d2-9be0-464f-98ee-ae7ae5b0086b 961e5352-aefc-3997-a661-709e67523c10 /media/data/media4/Music/Roy Harper/Once (1990)/folder.jpg Roy Harper AlbumArtist Roy Harper Artist Roy Harper Roy Harper 1 Once 08:11 2 Once in the Middle of Nowhere 00:57 3 Nowhere to Run To 04:54 4 The Black Cloud of Islam 03:00 5 If 03:19 6 Winds of Change 01:29 7 Berliners 07:18 8 Sleeping at the Wheel 04:17 9 For Longer Than It Takes 04:19 10 Ghost Dance 03:52 Roy Harper (born 12 June 1941) is an English folk rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has released 22 studio albums (and 10 live ones) across a career that stretches back to 1966. As a musician, Harper is known for his distinctive fingerstyle playing and lengthy, lyrical, complex compositions, reflecting his love of jazz and the poet John Keats. He was the lead vocalist on Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar.” Harper's influence has been acknowledged by Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, and Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull, who said Harper was his "primary influence as an acoustic guitarist and songwriter." Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph described him as "one of Britain's most complex and eloquent lyricists and genuinely original songwriters... much admired by his peers". Across the Atlantic, his influence has been acknowledged by Seattle-based acoustic band Fleet Foxes, American musician and producer Jonathan Wilson, and Californian harpist Joanna Newsom, with whom he has also toured. In 2005, Harper was awarded the MOJO Hero Award, and in 2013 a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. His most recent album, Man and Myth, was released in 2013. In 2016, Harper celebrated his 75th birthday by performing concerts in Clonakilty, Birmingham, Manchester, London, and Edinburgh.