h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just popped inrto your space (can't help feeing that somehow an invasion of privicy) but noted your ref to music Does Roy/Nick Harper mean anything to you or Nick Drake? By the way Spirit in The Sky has been killed NO MURDERED.

Hmmm.......The Harper part rings a bell...Could you throw me clue<?>

Spirit in the Sky has been crucified. I actually quite liked the original. At least, I liked the band's clothes
Apart from the hair

Sorry for the delay in responding I haven't been on line for a couple of days.

There is a Ben Harper who is popular but I only know this from looking under Harper in record shops.

Roy Harper is what can only be described as an old hippy. Acouplee of his better known songs are I hate the white man (he is white Ben is black) & One man rock and roll band. He plays Folksy/Rocky accoustic guiter music with poetical lyrics. Led Zep have a song called Hats off to Roy Harper.

Nick is his son and has a similar style but a bit more modern. I took a couple of friends to a Nick Gig, they had only previously heard Roy and were a bit lukewarm but to their own surprise loved Nick.

On the subjevt of spirit there was a version iin the sixties and then the one in the eighties. I can't remember the band in either case but
they were both one hit wonders. Shame the third one isn't.

I'll have to keep an eye out....I think I might have recognised it from a Led Zepplin album.....

Aaah....now the version I've heard was the 80s one by, I think it was, Doctor and the Medics. They had seriously big hair. You couldn't have backcombed it any more...

It is a shame. We can only hope the public will get bored of him eventually.