In their original incarnation from 1966 until their split into two separate bands in 1998, Barclay James Harvest followed their own career trajectory. Snubbing the obvious route to success – and managing to upset several other artists as they went – they refused to embrace the idea of being part of a scene. In 2016 co-founder Les Holroyd told Prog that, despite all that, they’d achieved the form of success they’d been chasing.
