All This and More, a four-disc Procol Harum compendium has been announced by Salvo Records as part of their 40th anniversary reissue campaign.To me, just from the scant information at my fingertips, it looks to be a dead cert for the Christmas list.As I said, details at the moment are sketchy aside from the promise [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum 4-disc Anthology on the wayRelated...
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Former Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher has been awarded future royalties on recordings of the song A Whiter Shade of Pale.Fisher originally brought suit to receive royalties for the song, saying that he was never credited with writing the opening organ solo. Singer Gary Brooker argued that he had originally suggested the Bach theme for the record and that Fisher was not entitled to a shar...
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“Gary Brooker and Keith Reid of Procol Harum are the only people we could ever compare ourselves to!” - Elton John and Bernie TaupinProcol Harum’s fourth album, Home , was released in June 1970 and was a much darker offering than what had gone before. This is depite the band perhaps being at their most [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum - Home (2009 Reissue)
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In 1977, ten years on from ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale‘, Procol Harum delivered what was to be their last album for 14 years. Only lead vocalist, pianist and songwriter Gary Brooker remained from that original ‘AWSoP’ line-up, along with the lyricist Keith Reid (BJ Wilson joining on drums after the hit was recorded).Something Magic [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum – Something Ma
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“Is it on, Tommy?”So begins Procol Harum’s seventh studio album, Exotic Birds and Fruit. Words that give way to the 1974 opener ‘Nothing But the Truth’, a belter of a tune whose intent, and indeed top billing, is to address any concerns that seven years into the band’s lifespan, Procol Harum had become a spent [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum – Exotic Birds and Fruit (20
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(but that hat is NOT timeless...)Ok, Procol Harum had one monster hit, "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", around '67 or so and that's what most people remember. They exploded in popularity right out of the box and went through a long period of decline in that popularity from '67 -' 77, when they broke up, only to occassionally re-form and release new material in '91 and '03.But, popularity aside, I thin...
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I was listening to marketplace on NPR and heard a story about the organist who played that haunting solo on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale":http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77625&si=rhino that dropped in 1967 and has sold 10 million singles since...now the keyboardist wants some of those bucks but he won't get a red cent because the solo was (wait for it) heavily ba...
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A Whiter Shade of Pale A Salty Dog In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence Homburg Shine on Brightly Conquistador
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Does anyone remember the latest Procol Harum CD that emerged in 2003, This Well's On Fire? Even though I own all of their releases, I had no idea this thing came out until I saw it on Amazon a year or two ago. With all of the music mags I read, I don't remember a single review. Procol Harum is a group that, for me, never gets old. Their sound is an evergreen.
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Before Procol Harum went psychedelic with "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", they were an R&B band called The Paramounts.Surviving that era is an LP that was released years ago and now out of print.This is one of my favorites from that LP. They are covering a song by The Impressions, of which Curtis Mayfield (SuperFly) was a huge part. I've never heard the original, so if someone out there in MOG land h...
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When we were young, we saw the world through young eyes. Musicians were no different.The music they produced as wide eyed star gazers was true in form and function, but not always in heart.When we reached middle age, we started to see the wisdom of those gone before us. The music makers who had survived thus far also were learning from the various schools they were going through, and their musi...
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(but that hat is NOT timeless...)Ok, Procol Harum had one monster hit, "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", around '67 or so and that's what most people remember. They exploded in popularity right out of the box and went through a long period of decline in that popularity from '67 -' 77, when they broke up, only to occassionally re-form and release new material in '91 and '03.But, popularity aside, I thin...
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