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Procol Harum's 40th Anniversary
A first miscellany of pictures from Jeremy Gilien
BtP presents • Procol Harum's 40th Birthday Celebrations • 20 / 21 July 2007 |
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This upended cable case outside Studio One at Southend's NightFly
Studio became the shop where
George Lovell sold and signed copies of his excellent Procol Harum memoir,
The Waiter Brought a Tray
NightFly studios: seated one day at the organ, Peter slips
a Bb cornet break
into The Milk of Human Kindness as Ian Hockley looks on
The Palers' Band rehearses Simple Sister with Dave Ball on
guitar (not pictured): this is the chattering pianos
build-up section in the middle of the song: pianists are Antonio, Don, Peter, Søren
and Roland
Son and father share a piano at the end of
Simple Sister: Ian looks on, as does
Benny Tworek, Hammond-player from Denmark's 'Procol Harum Project'
The Palers' Band coach is about to leave
Southend-on-Sea, after four days' rehearsal, for London. Claus Nielsen and Jeff
Levine
are shown as well as Roland and Jens from BtP. We board the vehicle,
supplied by BJS Travel, in Wilson Street
The fine Klais pipe-organ was the first
sound heard by the St John's Smith Square audience
at the 'Procol Rarum' show on 21 July: Ian Hockley
was
the recitalist. But here Jeremy Gilien,
also a church organist, samples the
instrument at Palers' Band sound-check time
Gary Brooker and Dave Ball play the
previously-unknown Brooker / Reid song,
Yours if you Want Me, at BtP's 'Procol Rarum' show on 21 July
Roland and Jens from 'Beyond the Pale'
with Gary Brooker
and Keith Reid at the end
of the 'Procol Rarum' evening: at this moment Roland is talking about pizza
Gary Brooker and Keith Reid at the end
of the 'Procol Rarum' evening: Gary is holding
one of the two
Bristol Blue glass trophies presented by BtP on behalf of fans of
the duo's songwriting worldwide
Post-show celebrations in the crypt at St John's, Smith Square:
Dave Ball,
Gary Brooker (in
Brooker/Reid
tee-shirt) and Juliette Leonhardt among others
More of the above!
More about the 40th anniversary celebrations | Friday aftershow party booking
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