Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

Super comment but... that England isn't as vanished as people think - we're all still here. Also, the brass arrangement is way beyond Roy so "Hat's of to David Bedford"!

Ex pat lancashire lad is deeply moved. I grew up in the seventies in Burnley and I was lucky that my older brothers had lots of Roy. Find him also on the first Dave Gilmour album. I Forget the song. Colliery brass bands embody the 'old Lancashire' for me. Gilmour also plays lead on 'The Game'.

ah great stuff never tire hearing this

Still brilliant after all these years. First saw Roy in 1968. You cannot listen without being moved.

I bet it drives this guy crazy that he's best known for singing the song "Have a Cigar".

I remember the 70s but I've never heard this or any other song done by him (other than..... you know)

Or being name checked in a Led Zep title.

I heard it on Radio 2, driving home from work (Sounds of the Seventies I think). It's been one of my favourites every since.

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I heard this with an English friend in the North-West of Western Australia in a mining camp.
I do not understand the gormless comment attributed to this song by the person whom designated 'gayy'. Does he/she like Led Zepplin? There is a song Hats off to Roy Harper on LZ 3--yes THAT Roy Harper! And, by the way: Who did Pink Floyd invite to provide the vocals on Have a Cigar, recorded on Wish You Were Here?

Roy Harper.

What a beautiful, evocative, sad song. Went to a funeral where this was played as the coffin was carried out - not a dry eye in the house (especially as the cricketer wasn't so very old). Thanks so much for posting this - am off to buy the album now.

This is gayy