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Gary Brooker's vinyl gift to fans, June 2025

Results of the auction and the competition • sum raised for charity


Below, the high bids from the signed vinyl legacy auction, also the tally of votes for 'most popular item in Gary Brooker's estimation'

Competition comments


Congratulations to Svein Erik Opřien (Norway), Lester Feldman (USA), and Gun Dahlquist (Sweden) ...
all of whom managed to think their way into the quirky Brooker mindset.
For an explanation, watch this short film

In the eBay auction itself

The lowest price paid for a single lot was 66.31 GBP
The highest was 1020 GBP

5 buyers in the UK won 7 items between them
3 buyers in the USA won 4 items between them
3 buyers in Germany won 4 items between them
2 buyers in Switzerland won 2 items between them
1 buyer in Sweden won 2 items

Upshot

Procol Harum fans who read 'Beyond the Pale' have raised 1642.93 GBP
for the Royal Marsden Cancer Research Charity

Well done everyone, and thank you!
It's also heartening to hear from people who, having lost their bid, pledged the amount
they'd planned to spend on vinyl to their own, chosen local cancer charities instead

The prices paid ...

A Rock Roots factory sample LP (‘not for sale’) with typed insert. Signed in black.

Sold for 124.43 GBP to a buyer in Sweden

4 people
judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 
 

Pictures and particulars A

 

B Home test pressing on a surprising label ‘Noted for quality and Service’.

Sold for 197.58 GBP to a buyer in the USA

5
people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 
 

Pictures and particulars B

 

C Broken Barricades on A&M, white label promo
ingeniously signed with a missing 'o'

Sold for 106.00 GBP to a buyer in
Switzerland

8 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars C

 

D Procol Harum Lives, highly desirable and rare promo box set
packed with goodies and discs

Sold for 1020.00 GBP to a buyer in the UK

76 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars D

 

E

Prime Cuts (Chrysalis box set sampler from 1973 [incomplete, but including a signed Robin Trower album] bundled by way of compensation
with The A&M Bootleg Album)

Sold for 215.84 GBP to a buyer in the UK

10 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars E

 

F Grand Hotel 603 7511, signed pressing of overseas manufacture

Sold for  107.08 GBP to a buyer in Germany

3 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars F

 

G Exotic Birds and Fruit, signed in green

Sold for 107.08 GBP to a buyer in the UK

1 person judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars G

 

H Exotic Birds and Fruit, side one, 21 February 1974

Sold for 125.35 GBP to a buyer in the UK

0 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars H

 

I Exotic Birds and Fruit, one side, dated 22 February 1974 (one day later)
and endorsed with an ornithological exclamation

Sold for 156.00 GBP to a buyer in the USA

1 person judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars I

 

J Exotic Birds and Fruit, sent to a woman by a man involved with the recording

Sold for
123.00 GBP to a buyer in the USA

2 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'

 

Pictures and particulars J

 

K Procol’s Ninth CHR1080 signed

Sold for
123.00 GBP to a buyer in the UK

0 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars K

 

L Procol’s Ninth white label, signed with a curious use of Roman numerals

Sold for 107.08 GBP to a buyer in
Germany

0 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars L

 

M Procol’s Ninth (signed with curious Schubertian gag) white label

Sold for 166.86 GBP to a buyer in the USA

1 person judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars M 

 

N Something Magic 6307 593, signed pressing of overseas manufacture

Sold for 66.31 GBP to a buyer in the UK

0 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars N

 

O Something Magic heavy acetate with typing on surprising label, signed in red

Sold for 186.00 GBP to a buyer in Sweden

1 person judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars O

 

P Something Magic test pressing on a surprising label 24 January 1977

Sold for 234.00 GBP to a buyer in Switzerland

0 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars P

 

Q Something Magic test pressing, also on a surprising label, 24 January 1977

Sold for 99.42 GBP to a buyer in the UK

0 people judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars Q

 

R Something Magic white label A-side updated to 7 February 1977
signed with an ominous quotation


Sent for 0.00 GBP to a competition-winner in Sweden

3 people correctly judged this Gary's 'most popular item'

 

Pictures and particulars R

 

S Something Magic Worm and the Tree, signed with a riddling question

Sold for 164.00 GBP to a buyer in Germany

1 person judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars S

 

T Something Magic white label, TWatT, signed in red plus reference tone A-side

Sold for 145.54 GBP to a buyer in Germany

1 person judged this Gary's 'most popular item'
 

 

Pictures and particulars T

 


Instruction page about this auction and competition

Gary Brooker's page at BtP

 

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