Procol Harum's first year in the NME

Franky Braun : 4 May 1968

These excerpts from New Musical Express, kindly selected for 'Beyond the Pale' by Yan Friis, show news of an important Procol engagement!

Front page: full page advertisement for Scott Walker's Joanna(Philips)

Headlines:

TOM bumps for SCREAMS! by Andy Gray 

Here is the most amazing article EVER-WRITTEN about a MONKEE

MIKE NESMITH WANTED ME TO EXPOSE HOW RUDE HE WAS by Ann Moses

 A SLEEPY GENE RAVES OVER TOUR by Nick Logan

 Going home made Raparata so sad by Richard Green

 Before Honey I had almost given up hope, says Bobby by Richard Green

Tipped for the charts by Derek Johnson:

Beach Boys, Friends
Seekers, Days Of My Life
Tremeloes, Helule, Helule

NME Top 5

1 (1) What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong
2 (3) Simon Says, 1910 Fruitgum Co.
3 (8) Lazy Sunday, Small Faces
4 (4) If I Only Had Time, John Rowles
5 (2) Congratulations, Cliff Richard

Tail-pieces by the Alley Cat

... Procol Harum's lead singer Gary Brooker engaged to Swiss Miss Françoise Braun ...

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