Album · Roy Harper
HQ by Roy Harper
HQ is an album by Roy Harper, released in 1975. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease”, on 1 list with a best position of #47.
HQ, Roy Harper's eighth studio album, came out on Harvest in 1975 with Peter Jenner producing, and it finds the English troubadour in expansive form. Harper's songs never did know when to quit, and that's the point: long, knotty pieces built on his intricate fingerpicking, reaching for the sweep of jazz and the romance of Keats while the folk rock underneath keeps swelling into something grander.
The record's best-loved track, "When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease", is so central that American buyers got the whole album under that title instead. It's a quintessentially English piece of work from a writer whose influence Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Pete Townshend, Kate Bush and Ian Anderson have all acknowledged, and the cricketer song is the one that made the countdowns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from HQ on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease | 1 | #47 | – | 1976 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.