Tony Hooper: Singer and guitarist for the Strawbs, the leading folk rock band that fell out over whether they should be more folk or more rock

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From Bob Dylan to Marc Bolan, acoustic folk musicians have plugged in and “gone electric” to become rock stars, but the very idea was anathema to Tony Hooper.

By 1972 he had been the angelic-voiced singer and acoustic guitarist with the Strawbs on half a dozen albums that had established the band as one of the finest products of the English folk revival, rivalled only by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.

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__.From Bob Dylan to Marc Bolan, acoustic folk musicians have plugged in and “gone electric” to become rock stars, but the very idea was anathema to Tony Hooper. By 1972 he had been the angelic-voiced singer and acoustic guitarist with the Strawbs on half a dozen albums that had established the band as one of the finest products of the English folk revival, rivalled only by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.