Procol Harum's 40th Anniversary
London pictures from Roland at BtP (2)
BtP presents • Procol Harum's 40th Birthday Celebrations • 20 / 21 July 2007 |
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At BtP's aftershow party in the crypt below the auditorium, the
call went out from Procol Harum
that they wanted to have a word with Al 'One-Eye' Edelist ...
... who was duly given a certificate recognising his abnormally frequent attendance at Procol concerts worldwide
One-Eye duly thanked the band
Some of whom photographed him while he did so
George Lovell presented Gary Brooker with a copy of
his excellent Procol memoir (second
edition
now on
pre-order here).
Gary found it expedient to stow it in his trousers
Ian Hockley, Matt Pegg, Jeff Levine ... among many others in the crypt
It looks as though Matt Pegg is signing a cymbal ... maybe for
Jeff Levine?
That's his wife in the blue roll-neck. Jeff's, not Matt's.
Gary Brooker, Antonio Costa Barbé, Peter Justesen
Gary refers to Antonio as 'Costa Barbirolli', by the way
Roland has just told Mr Reid that Antonio's favourite Procol song
is
Dead Man's Dream – he knows that it's Keith's least favourite
Saturday night, and One-Eye's garb is notable: so, why the Pizza shirt? Because Jens and Roland presented
Keith
and Gary with two circular blue glass plaques, on behalf of Procol fans worldwide, and they came in square
presentation boxes. We asked One-Eye to bring them on
stage in this costume knowing that, if we didn't make the pizza
joke
first, it would
be swiftly pre-empted by one of the presentees, on first seeing the delivery
boxes.
Sunday, Ealing: Thomas and Karen taking a huge mound of
post-celebration gear out
of their van, which is going home
to
Denmark; Linda and Peter wonder how it is all going to fit into the
Bristol-bound Volvo. But
it did, eventually.
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