Songs

Legend (Roy Harper)

Studio version

Released on Sophisticated Beggar.

Live version (London 1990-05-31)

Released on Unhinged and Born In Captivity II.

Comment by Roy

"I wrote a song called 'Legend' once which has a direct reference to a T.S. Eliot poem called 'The Waste Land' which I really liked. I did write a poem called 'The Wilderness' which, I thought at the time, was heavily influenced by T.S. Eliot so I destroyed it. Well, I used it as a stepping stone I suppose. If I think that something is influenced by someone too heavily I will destroy it because I do like to think of things as being my own." (Acoustic Music, July 1980) "Legend was written in 1966 and is heavily influenced by an essay I read in prison, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was also influenced by T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'." (Hors d'Oeuvres #25)

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