{"id":6918,"date":"2015-11-09T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2015-11-09T19:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:18:22","slug":"charges-against-pink-floyd-guest-vocalist-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2015\/11\/charges-against-pink-floyd-guest-vocalist-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"All charges against Pink Floyd guest vocalist dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worcester Crown Court<\/strong> today dropped the remaining charges pending against singer-songwriter <strong>Roy Harper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, 74, best known to <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> fans as guest vocalist on the band&#8217;s &#8220;Have a Cigar,&#8221; had been acquitted by a jury of two sex crime charges earlier this year. The five remaining charges were dropped today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case should never have gone as far as this, or taken so long to resolve,&#8221; Harper told the <strong>Guardian<\/strong>. &#8220;The psychological and personal cost to my wife and myself has been enormous and the financial cost hugely unfair. I lost my livelihood and I spent my savings, and more, on my defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite coming out of this without a blemish on my name, I cannot recoup my costs and that\u2019s left me incredibly angry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worcester Crown Court today dropped the remaining charges pending against singer-songwriter Roy Harper. Harper, 74, best known to Pink Floyd fans as guest vocalist on the band&#8217;s &#8220;Have a Cigar,&#8221; had been acquitted by a jury of two sex crime charges earlier this year. The five remaining charges were dropped today. \u201cThis case should never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}