{"id":3777,"date":"2013-11-15T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/15\/roy-harper-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-a-child\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:49:48","slug":"roy-harper-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/15\/roy-harper-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Harper Charged With Sexually Assaulting a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets-s3.rollingstone.com\/assets\/images\/story\/roy-harper-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-a-child-20131115\/1000x600\/roy-600-1384524786.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"146\" \/><br \/>Folk singer faces nine counts of abusing a girl in the Seventies. Roy Harper, the English folk singer who sang with Pink Floyd and influenced Led Zeppelin, has been charged with sexual assault in connection with a case dating back to the mid-Seventies. According to the BBC, British authorities have charged Harper, 72, with nine counts of sexually abusing a girl in Herefordshire, England, between 1975-77, starting when she was 12.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Police interviewed Harper, who lives in Ireland, in February at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport, and issued him a summons last month. He is due to appear in court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Harper sang lead vocals on Pink Floyd&#8217;s song &#8220;Have a Cigar,&#8221; from their 1975 album Wish You Were Here, and the singer was the subject of &#8220;Hats Off to (Roy) Harper&#8221; on Led Zeppelin III in 1970. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull once cited Harper as a primary influence on his songwriting, and younger bands including Fleet Foxes have mentioned Harper as a musical inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>The singer has released more than 20 studio albums since his 1966 debut, Sophisticated Beggar, including the 1985 album Whatever Happened to Jugula, recorded with Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Rolling Stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folk singer faces nine counts of abusing a girl in the Seventies. Roy Harper, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}