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a b c "Rolf Harris". State Library of Western Australia. 25 October 2011. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013 . Retrieved 10 May 2015. As a musician, singer and songwriter, I have had No 1 hits and taken pop festivals by storm; as a television presenter, I have been awarded the MBE and voted TV personality of the year; and as an artist I have had pictures exhibited by the Royal Academy. People who are now parents and grandparents grew up watching me on TV singing Jake the Peg, doing vast drawings with a fat felt-tip pen, blowing the didgeridoo and wobbling a piece of hardboard. Children today know me as the man who worries about cats with broken legs, and ferrets with flu, on the BBC’s Animal Hospital. Touching so many people’s lives has been a huge thrill.” Operation Yewtree: Rolf Harris charged with 13 offences". CPS.gov. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014 . Retrieved 5 July 2014. Aged 84, he was sentenced to five years and nine months in jail in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults on four young women and girls between 1968 and 1986 (one conviction was later quashed). Sentencing Harris, Mr Justice Sweeney said: “Your reputation now lies in ruins. you have been stripped of your honours, but you have no one to blame but yourself.” Bowcott, Owen (30 July 2014). "Rolf Harris's prison sentence will not be increased despite complaints". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 July 2014.

Longridge, Chris (30 June 2014). "How Rolf Harris became famous". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 2 August 2014. Brooks, Richard (19 October 2008). "Rolf Harris unearths own family's tale of 'two little boys' in Somme cemetery". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 4 February 2010.

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Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time – June 2008". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008 . Retrieved 10 February 2009. After several delays in the trial, in which the judge's summing-up took three days, the jury retired to consider its verdict on 19 June 2014. On 30 June, Harris was found guilty of all 12 counts of indecent assault. [118] [119] [120] [121] Rolf Harris, the 5th Beatle". Gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com. 27 October 2010. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011 . Retrieved 17 January 2011. In 1993, his version of Stairway to Heaven found him fame with a younger generation of fans. In 2010, aged 80, he made his fifth appearance at the Glastonbury festival, performing on the Pyramid stage before a crowd of 30,000. Italian single certifications – Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 9 September 2019. Select "2019" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Stairway to Heaven" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".

Miller, Barbara (28 June 2014). "Rolf Harris trial: Jurors ask for letters to be sent to employers as trial continues". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 29 June 2014. Pop CD of the week: Kate Bush, Aerial". The Guardian. 18 February 2017 . Retrieved 29 October 2005. The Little Convict (1979)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 27 May 2023 . Retrieved 23 May 2023.

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BBC One – Coming Home, Series 2, Rolf Harris". Bbc.co.uk. 9 February 2011 . Retrieved 19 April 2013. Edgar, James (19 April 2013). "Rolf Harris: A household name for 50 years". The Independent . Retrieved 11 January 2020. Rolf Harris profile". Rolfharrisentertainer.com. 30 March 1930. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010 . Retrieved 19 April 2013.

Topping, Alexandra; Waterson, Jim (23 May 2023). "Rolf Harris, convicted sex offender and entertainer, dies aged 93". The Guardian. Speculation over Harris's health has built in recent weeks and it is unclear at this stage when he died. Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven verdict appealed". BBC News. 27 July 2016 . Retrieved 17 October 2016. No evidence' Rolf Harris was at scene of alleged assaults". The Guardian. 23 May 2014 . Retrieved 7 July 2014. The inaugural public performance of the song took place at Belfast's Ulster Hall on 5 March 1971. [21] Bassist John Paul Jones recalls that the crowd was unimpressed: "They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew." [25] Harris is credited with inventing a simple homemade instrument called the wobble board. [87] As well as his beatboxing, similar to eefing, Harris went on to use an array of unusual instruments in his music, including the didgeridoo (the sound of which was imitated on " Sun Arise" by four double basses), the Jew's harp and later, the Stylophone (for which he also lent his name and likeness for advertising). [88]

Allie and Rolf Harris!" (video upload). Allie Ho Chee on YouTube. youtube.com. 21 February 2011 . Retrieved 7 June 2014. and early 1980s: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992: 23 years of hit singles & albums from the top 100 charts. St Ives, N.S.W, Australia: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Madonna, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee". Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 April 2023. In 2014, Vanessa Feltz alleged that Harris sexually assaulted her while she interviewed him live on the bed during an edition of Channel 4 morning programme The Big Breakfast, [139] and Linda Nolan alleged that he groped her when she was 15 when the Nolan Sisters were his support act in South Africa. [140] Walsh, Rourke (11 July 2014). "Vote on Harris' honour". The Kimberley Echo. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014 . Retrieved 30 July 2014.

In September 2016, it was reported that Harris, who had been serving his prison sentence at the time, had been hospitalised with suspected sepsis. [160] Harris also released 30 studio albums and found success with novelty songs such as Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, Two Little Boys and a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven. He appeared at the Glastonbury festival several times. Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book (1940–1969). Turramurra, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book, 2005. ISBN 0-646-44439-5. Rolf Harris performing with his wobbleboard at the Glastonbury festival, 2010. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/ReutersBy 1975, the song had a regular place as the finale of every Led Zeppelin concert. However, after their concert tour of the United States in 1977, Plant began to tire of "Stairway to Heaven": "There's only so many times you can sing it and mean it ... It just became sanctimonious." [27] A household name from the 1960s onwards, Harris’s reputation as an entertainer and artist was shattered when he was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal. At Southwark Crown Court on 4 July 2014, Mr Justice Sweeney sentenced Harris to a total of five years and nine months in prison. [122] When passing sentence, the judge said to Harris: "You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all. Your reputation now lies in ruins, you have been stripped of your honours but you have no one to blame but yourself." [123] [124] Some sentences were expected to run consecutively, and Harris was expected to serve half of his sentence in prison. He was told he must pay prosecution costs, though not compensation to the victims. [125] The sentence was referred to the Attorney General Dominic Grieve after complaints that it was too lenient. [126] On 30 July 2014, the new Attorney General, Jeremy Wright, announced that he would not be referring the sentence to the Court of Appeal for review "as he did not think they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it. The sentencing judge was bound by the maximum sentence in force at the time of the offending." [127] Rolf Harris receives Honorary Doctorate of the University of East London". University of East London. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010 . Retrieved 30 June 2014.