Roy Harper - Forbidden Fruit

[polkad3v]

nowadays, politically, they would have been given a council house together,

that must really hurt, fckin politics.

[polkad3v]

he was 18 she was 15, both teenagers, he had his person/her person ripped apart by the politics of the time, of course he would want to write a song about it.

[NaJa0283]

stormcock. net/ node/ 405

I remember being 18. My girlfriend was 15. We made athletic love for

hours on end. I loved every inch of her. I'd never seen anything as

beautiful as that. I was deeply in love... and then some. She became

pregnant. We were torn from each other. She was operated upon. Cut open.

The child killed. The child of my love was killed against my wishes by a

surgeon's knife. I was accused of not knowing what love was.

[anonymous19841]

Unfortunately the PC brigade seem to have missed the humour in this wonderful work of heart

[mobyboy]

so pastoralic and beautiful

[thespiritof57]

This album reminds me of reading 'Lord of the Rings' when I was about 16. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!

[deafflylii1]

Nothing to be torn about, different era. Beautiful song.

[corsica290]

Completely torn about this song. It is one of the most beautiful tunes of contemporary folk but the lyrics are completely out of line.

[patsy1000]

Does anyone know if theres any tab for this beautiful tune, seems to me a tough one to sus out. Thanks Roy your a star

[ForestKid408]

His music creates in me nostalgia

[russthelegend57]

Look, if we assume that every song/poem/novel is autobiographical then we must surely believe that Robert Browning was a murderer, Nabakov was a paedophile, Lou Reed is a sex-crazed, drug-addicted serial killer and that the current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy is a perpetrator of knife-crime - clearly ludicrous! Great writers - including Roy Harper - tackle controversial and disturbing issues in their writing - or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

[passer59]

@russthelegend57

You may have missed the link I included in the header info of the track. It's worth a read.

[russthelegend57]

@passer59 read it! Thanks!

[nickhirst999]

@russthelegend57

No. You are definitely barking up the right tree.....that's why you have 5 thumbs up which I'm just about to make 6. You understand the point that RH was making. Well said.

[Heuri1]

@russthelegend57 Taboo is what it thinks it has a right to revile; just like the Catholic priest that beleives all children are gods to do with as they will, but as you infer...many know otherwise and Roy has never had that taint to my knowledge and as far as I'm concerned, never will have.

Thanks to all posters who have righted a wrong to Roy...it seems there's a helluva lot more Harper on THE TUBE now and rightly so. Cheers!

[finkployd4658]

Hats off to roy harper

[mobyboy]

realsed in 1974 - from his best Album "Valentine"

[CrucialSis]

I never will be able to feel those feelings you guys are talking about, it's sad if Roy Harper is/was a pedo. Still I I don't have to love the man - I just love the music!

[jimboid74]

dont be ridiculous! this is an album of love songs. and roy being the creative fellow is depicting all sorts of crushes/loves. there is nothing to suggest he has any kind of paedophillic tendencies. the nearest he has got to being sick has been his heart condition.

this is just a brilliantly written song

[passer59]

I've put a link in the info section discussing Roy's comments on the song.

[assdickass]

@CrucialSis You're thinking in a box. Come out of it and realize that sodomy laws are not infallible, as they are a product of man.

[nickhirst999]

Roy's comment from the lyric booklet which you could send for as mentioned on the back of the album cover:

Many a man was hung for picking the fruit from the tree. Disgusting. I would like to dedicate this to one of my favourite people, Lewis Carrol, who obviously had similar fantasies to my own. Sing it smiling.

[deafflylii1]

Guess he at least talked about it, there were fellow rock gods exploiting their fame a great deal more.

[mobyboy]

never ending ! touch every nurve.

[passer59]

Very true. I can't imagine that it would be released nowadays. I remember thinking it was quite "cheeky" at the time, but 30 years on and it wouldn't make it to the presses.

[mancsmoveseast]

Agree with both comments but what a beautifully crafted song,as said 30 tears ago 'cheeky' these days no go area.

[fuckdaisy]

Roy's comment on this nostalgic although admittedly nowadays risky number, from his book "The Passions of Great Fortune":

"We were all young once. Most of us still are. A song about a beautiful moment. Without complete and loving consent, and appropriate confines, all sexual contact is invasive, destructive and selfish."

[fuckdaisy]

Such a gorgeous song. But o so x-rated. Would have made a great children's tv theme. And made for some interesting deciphering of carnal metaphor.