Best- and mostly known for his tenure as lead guitarist in the 1970s progressive rock group Nektar, Roye Albrighton enjoys a small but devoted following, both in his native England and in Germany. After the demise of his group in the late ‘70s he laid very low. By 1999 he was warming up for a comeback and released his first solo album in 2002, synchronized with the reunion of his old band.
Albrighton was born in 1949 in Coventry, England. After a client had paid his TV repairman brother with a half-broken guitar, he began to learn by himself at the age of 10. Dropping out of ...