Despite a career that was plagued by misunderstanding, confusion and line-up changes, Nektar made some of the most innovative progressive rock records of the 1970s.
A common misapprehension was that they were a German band, a belief that stemmed from the fact that the group’s unmistakably English core of guitarist/vocalist Roye Albrighton, keyboard player Allan ‘Taff’ Freeman, bassist Derek ‘Mo’ Moore and drummer Ron Howden met at the Star Club in Hamburg in 1969, and went on to sign to German label Bellaphon Records.
