2021 |
Gary Brooker talks to
Goldmine
again
|
2020 |
Gary Brooker Q&A in the
UK's Daily Mail (!) |
2018 |
Gary Brooker interviewed
in Shindig! |
2018 |
Gary Brooker interviewed in
Prog |
2017 |
Bach to the future: why
A Whiter Shade of Pale has endured |
2017 |
Brief
Brooker
interview in Billboard |
2016 |
Gary Brooker
in Corriere della Sera (promising a new album) |
2016 |
Gary Brooker
interviewed about
his finances, in the UK's Sunday Telegraph
newspaper |
2014 |
Procol Harum seem poised to reclaim their
rightful place alongside Pink Floyd in the great British
progressive rock pantheon:
The
Independent |
2014 |
Gary Brooker interviewed in Rolling
Stone |
2014 |
2014 pre-show US
Brooker interview, particularly looking at AWSoP |
2014 |
Gary Brooker interview:
last man standing on the phantom ship |
2013 |
Record Collector
feature about Grand Hotel |
2012 |
The
Lefsetz Letter on Robin Trower |
2011 |
Good(ish)
AWSoP article in the Sydney Morning
Herald |
2010 |
A
survey of Procol Harum in Edmonton
|
2010 |
Gary Brooker talks to
Goldmine
|
2010 |
Gary Brooker talks to
The Examiner
|
2010 |
Gary Brooker:
significant interview with Songfacts about
songwriting and much more |
2010 |
Gary Brooker talks to
the
Edmonton Sun
|
2010 |
Gary
Brooker talks to Best Classic Bands |
2010 |
Gary Brooker talks to
Atlantic City Weekly
|
2010 |
May:
Keith Reid,
interviewed by Dmitry M Epstein |
2010 |
June: Gary Brooker on Kate Bush,
in
Uncut |
2009 |
Keith Reid:
significant interview with
Songfacts about songwriting and much more |
2009 |
May: Gary Brooker
question-and-answer session in
Record
Collector |
2009 |
May: Keith Reid
at
The Huffington Post |
2009 |
April: 'Talking lyrics with
Procol Harum's Keith Reid', from
Goldmine |
2009 |
April: A Whiter Shade of Pale
is most-played record of past 75 years:
here,
here and
here |
2009 |
Daily Express:
'a song that paled into significance': others similar
here,
here and
here |
2008 |
Keith Reid interviewed in The Argotist Online about songwriting |
2007 |
Swedish interview
about The
Keith Reid Project |
2007 |
'Get Bach
to where you once belonged':
Guardian Unlimited,
9 November 2007 |
2007 |
Gary Brooker
in the
UK's Word magazine |
2007 |
Crassly ineffectual
BBC
Radio Manchester interview with Gary Brooker |
2006 |
April: Procol
on the Mojo cover-disc |
2005 |
March,
Marcus Dunk in The Daily Express |
2005 |
May:
Procol Harum, the progenitors of prog-rock with their
orchestral dιbut single [sic] |
2005 |
The lawsuit regarding
authorship of A Whiter Shade of Pale ... many
articles |
2004 |
'Greatest psychedelic singles'
in Record Collector |
2004 |
Why Matthew Fisher left Procol Harum
from an Italian newspaper |
2004 |
December: the UK's
Radio Caroline interviews Gary Brooker about
his entire career |
2003 |
Article in
The Montreal Gazette the day Procol Harum plays
in the same city in their
2003 tour |
2003 |
Time Out (New
York edition)
just before the first Procol NY
gigs |
2003 |
Gary Brooker interviewed
in The Daily Record, Morris County, New Jersey |
2003 |
11 March:
Gary Brooker interviewed in Italy about the
new album |
2003 |
Gary Brooker interview
from Long Island Press |
2003 |
Gary Brooker interview
from Sweden's
Musikermagasinet |
2003 |
Gary Brooker interview
on Spanish Radio ... explains why R Trower is not on
The Well's on Fire |
2003 |
The script of the phone interview
for the Washington Times |
2003 |
The
July edition of Twentieth Century Guitar with
live pictures, Whitehorn and Brooker interviews |
2003 |
July: Italian news articles (translated into
English) from
Il Tempo and
Il Messagero |
2003 |
July: Arizona's
Acoustic Storm radio show interviews Gary Brooker |
2002 |
Keith Reid interview with uclaradio.com,
text and sound files |
2002 |
Gary Brooker interview
the day of the cancelled Newcastle concert |
2002 |
Matthew Fisher feature
from Croydon Council publication |
2002 |
Croydon Advertiser:
'Procol Harum are back' |
2002 |
Gary Brooker
briefly interviewed on Swedish TV: mentions
the The Well's on Fire album |
2001 |
Gary Brooker radio interview
from 17 April 2001 |
2001 |
Matthew Fisher on AWSoP and his career |
2001 |
Paler-power in action:
Procol Harum fans bewail perceived snub |
2001 |
Gary Brooker interview with uclaradio.com,
text and sound files |
2001 |
' ... time to reclaim PH as a great rock and
pop band ...' : a fascinating
website article |
2001 |
Substantial Matthew Fisher interview with
uclaradio.com, text and sound
files |
2001 |
Substantial Geoff Whitehorn interview with
uclaradio.com, text and sound
files |
2001 |
Procol bits, and stuff about Southend,
from the Vivian Stanshall biography,
Ginger Geezer |
2001 |
?
Substantial Robin Trower interview printed in
20th Century Guitar |
2000 |
March: good resumι of current interest in all
things Procol,
from Record Collector No 247 |
2000 |
BBC Radio 2 interviews Matthew Fisher
(broadcast 25 March) |
2000 |
Procol's first guitarist tells his story
in the Brechin Advertiser |
2000 |
Brooker and Fisher talk about AWSoP on
London Weekend Television |
2000 |
Brooker and Fisher talk about AWSoP on
the '100 Greatest Hits' programme
(broadcast 6 Jan 2001) |
1999 |
January:
Brooker in his own words, on German radio |
1998 |
Bud Scoppa on 'Trower's Travails' in
Guitar World |
1998 |
Radio Azzurra
talks to Chris Copping |
1998 |
A few sentences from Gary Brooker in this
pre-Guildford interview / feature |
1998 |
Rock in and Around Croydon
: some good bits about Matthew Fisher in particular |
1998 |
A telephonic Gary Brooker interview,
stylishly written by a lynch-pin of
The Homburg Society |
1997 |
Brooker piece in The
Daily Telegraph |
1997 |
Blundersome
Vox piece entitled 'Missing in Action',
with visual howler! |
1997 |
Shine On
interviews
with Keith Reid and
with Gary Brooker |
1997 |
Many fascinating bits of Procol History in
the Repertoire re-issues'
Liner-Notes |
1996 |
Progression
interviews with Gary Brooker and
Matt Pegg |
1996 |
Progression
assesses Procol Harum in the light of prog-rock |
1996 |
'Procol Harum takes the uncommercial road': a
Brooker
Radio Azzurra interview |
1996 |
Radio Azzurra interviews with
Kellogs,
Matthew Fisher, and
Nicholas Dodd |
1996 |
from
Kaleidoscope Eyes: Psychedelic Music From
the 1960s to the 1990s |
1995 |
Gary Brooker interview
from January's Record Collector |
1995 |
From Mojo: a substantial
Procol Harum feature and a piece about
Matthew Fisher |
1995 |
This young cat ...
the original bearer of the great name? |
1995 |
Newsday:
mini-interview with Matthew Fisher |
1995 |
Brief Gary Brooker interview
from the UK's Today newspaper |
1995 |
Gyldendal's Literary
Calendar: tiny, but
interesting: The Authors of Rock |
1994 |
Musician
magazine:
substantial guitarists' interview, with
Trower paragraphs |
1993 |
Guitar magazine:
substantial Robin Trower interview |
1992 |
Frank Fedeli talks
to Keith Reid, the band's lyricist, sage and historian |
1992 |
Rather silly feature
from Q magazine's Tom Hibbert |
1992 |
Gary Brooker at the Midfyn Festival
(transcript of interview) |
1992 |
Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher in the UK's
Daily Telegraph |
1992 |
Matthew Fisher talks to Keyboard Review:
Prodigal details and musicianly stuff |
1992 |
Matthew Fisher interviewed on BBC Radio
Merseyside |
1992 |
Substantial Procol feature:
intriguing statements from Brooker, Reid and Fisher |
1992 |
Procol talk to France's Rapido
(transcript of interview) |
1991 |
Brooker interviewed for UIT:
on Kate Bush, ballet, and the post-Prodigal album ... |
1991 |
Gary Brooker, KR, MF and RT interviews from
promotional CD for The Prodigal
Stranger |
1991 |
Keith Reid interview, Chicago Tribune:
comments on his own song-writing |
1991 |
Gary Brooker : Turning Points
from RCD |
1990 |
Intriguing multi-part Brooker interview
with Radio HSR, Copenhagen |
1990 |
Short snippets from Bill Wyman's
Stone Alone |
1987 |
Gary Brooker - Rock
star who made a country retreat
She magazine |
1985 |
Where are they now?
asks Rolling Stone |
1984 |
Creem mentions
PH as
'the Purple Horrors' |
1983 (about): |
excerpted Brooker interview
(journalist unknown) + Joan May's comments |
1983 |
Gary Brooker's
chapter from George Martin's book,
Making Music |
1982 |
Phonogram press-release
that heralded Brooker's Lead me to
the Water |
1980 (about) |
Gary
Brooker and the Parrot pub ... feature from
She |
1979 |
Brooker
on Reid: 'He could have been dumb for all I knew' from
Dutch radio. |
1979 |
Music Week, April 1979:
Brooker 'poleaxes' Poland |
1979 |
No More Fear Of Pale:
Gary Brooker promoting No More Fear
of Flying |
1978 |
Dave Ball, Procol Harum's 'vanished
pop-star'
according to the
Sunday Express |
1978 |
Home
Again: Mick Grabham interview
from Dιjΰ Vu |
1978 |
Gary
Brooker in Contemporary Keyboards (though Procol
had split 14 months ago!) |
1977 |
In Best magazine:
Gary Brooker interviewed in Paris: TWaTT is his favourite
composition so far |
1977 |
Circus:
PH have their tenth anniversary: will they have another? |
1977 |
Pop Group
Annual 1977 |
1977 |
Geoff Whitehorn, Player of the
Month in Beat Instrumental 1977 |
1977 |
Paul Kendall's
long
interview with Keith Reid (ZigZag, April edition) |
1977 |
Beat
Magazine: Gary Brooker foresees a post-Magic
double-album |
1977 |
Good
Times: a review of the last Old Testament Procol
album |
1976 |
New
Musical Express a feature linking to several more
Liquorice John Death pages |
1976 |
Good
Robin Trower feature from
Rolling Stone |
1976 |
Keith
Reid becomes manager of Frankie Miller: in the
NME |
1976 |
Procol
Chez Nous in Best Magazine, January 1976 |
1976 |
Extended
Robin Trower feature from
Street Life |
1975 |
Robin
Trower interview from Melody
Maker |
1975 |
Robin
Trower briefly mentions split with Brooker, working
with Fisher |
1975 |
Brief,
unintentionally funny Brooker / Reid piece from the
Daily Express |
1975 |
Pretty
inconsequential radio interview with Brooker / Reid by
Allison Steele |
1975 |
Scathing review of
Procol at the London Palladium from
The Times |
1975 |
'Hardy Annuals': Brooker and Reid talk to
the
Evening Standard |
1975 |
Interview
with B J Wilson from Melody
Maker |
1975 |
Alcohol
... is replacing blood in the group's veins: personal,
radical stuff from Best, October 1975 |
1974 |
Raves talks to
Procol's 'Mona-Lisa mouthed poet' about
Exotic Birds and Fruit |
1974 |
Sounds talks
to Chris Copping |
1974 |
Cashbox
superpraises Brooker,
Reid and Procol |
1974 |
Sounds talks to
Mick Grabham |
1974 |
Star-Phoenix,
from Saskatoon: feature / review of EBaF |
1974 |
Tour
dates: four autumnal British dates following a
Scandinavian tour |
1973 |
'Hotel
of the past and future' : Keith Reid interview from
Sounds |
1973 |
Brooker and Reid
about the Grand Hotel party and more, from
The Robesonian |
1973 |
Keith
Reid talks to ZigZag ... 'the slightly invisible
segment of PH' |
1973 |
Keith
Reid talks to BBC Radio 1 ... |
1973 |
Manchester
Evening News article about the
imminent
Grand Hotel |
1973 |
Melody Maker
talks to Keith Reid |
1973 |
Melody Maker's confused but
interesting
Band Breakdown ... six Procolers interviewed |
1973 |
Los
Angeles Free Press, November 1973
|
1973 |
Who
loves Procol Harum? |
1973 ? |
Mick Grabham article, possibly from
Sounds:
Procol's Quiet Man |
1973 |
Good
Grand Hotel article from the May edition of
Circus |
1973 |
Procol after Trower, Trower after Procol:
Grand Hotel
and Twice Removed
from Yesterday |
1973 |
Interview
with B J Wilson from Melody
Maker |
1973 |
Reid
and Wilson talk to Disc about European orchestral
tours etc |
1973 |
Brooker and Reid talk to ABC TV |
1973 |
Grand
Hotel foreseen, with some UK tour-dates : source
unknown |
1973 |
Procol
announce world tour (Sounds, 15 September) |
1973 |
Raves
review of Journey's End with revealing Fisher
insights |
1973 |
New York Times on
Robin Trower's
Twice Removed from Yesterday |
1973 |
A revealing
interview with Matthew Fisher in
NME |
1972 |
Return of Procol :
post-Edmonton feature in
Melody Maker |
1972 |
A
very misleading Press Release from Gibson and Stromberg |
1972 |
Procol
Harum, Swiss music, yodeling and the planned rock opera
... all in one snippet |
1972 |
Dave
Ball interview in Melody Maker |
1972 |
Creem
magazine talks to Reid and Brooker before the Santa
Monica gigs |
1972 |
Brooker and Reid talk to The Daily Planet, April/May 1972 |
1972-ish |
Pelo magazine, from Argentina. 'They are keeping
us buried,' Brooker says ... |
1972 |
Good
Hit Parader interview with Brooker, Copping and a
very revealing Reid |
1972 |
'Procol
back on the pedestal' : Procol interview in
Sounds |
1972 |
Los
Angeles Times:
'an album to respect, enjoy
from Harum' |
1972 |
Interview
with Mrs Violet Brooker about herself and her son |
1972 |
The
Boston Globe: first gold album
for Procol Harum |
1972 |
Jim Girard in
The Scene, Vol 3 No 57, |
1972 |
Good
Melody Maker interview with Brooker, 'The Harum
Globetrotter' |
1972 |
The
Great Speckled Bird: Edmonton review with
some good background comment |
1972 |
Procol
Harum and The Amateur Ork: from Rolling Stone #
116, 31 August |
1972 |
PH
tour dates '... their first-ever major British concert
tour later this month' |
1972 |
Procol
Harum Reconsidered from December's Rock ('Of
Changes, Pickles and the Grand Hotel') |
1971 |
The
Octopus and the Hot Bath: BJ Wilson and his wondrous
flailing limbs |
1971 |
BJ
Wilson interview with Melody
Maker |
1971 |
Keith
Reid interview with The Boston Globe |
1971 |
Keith
Reid interview with Melody
Maker |
1971 |
Article
from Rock in which the band speak of Reid, Dylan
and The Band |
1971 |
The
Problematic Career of Procol Harum from Circus,
August 1971 |
1971 |
French
Rock and Folk: long and fascinating piece on
'cursed' Procol |
1971 |
Three
leading songwriters: Sounds looks at Keith Reid,
Bernie Taupin and Robert Hunter |
1971 |
Very
substantial and entertaining interview with Brooker, Reid
and Wilson from 1971 |
1971 |
On
the Road with Procol Harum: UCLA
Daily Bruin |
1971 |
Gary
Brooker talks to NME about line-up changes,
festivals, venues ... |
1971 |
All
about Edmonton from Melody
Maker |
1971 |
Around
& About Procol Harum, the 'streetcorner prodigies':
from Rock |
1970 |
French
Rock and Folk: Reid on Fisher's departure, pre-Home
PH at 4 am |
1970 |
'An
English Music': from Australia's Go-Set music
paper: good on the words! |
1970 |
Tony
Norman talks to Keith Reid |
1970 |
An
assessment of the band's prowess and promise |
1970 |
'Procol
Harum, Band of Changes': from
Circus |
1970 |
Disc and Music
Echo, 11 April: Harum are home
again and wont stay in the shade |
1970 |
Brooker
talks to Record Mirror about arrival of Copping,
and about Reid the organist: 'Me and My Music' |
1970 |
Procol Harum about to play San Bernadino |
1970 |
'Where is Procol
Harum?' from the Oakland (CA) Tribune, 30 August |
1970 |
'Quite
Rightly So' or 'Coming to terms with PH': Bud Scoppa in
Crawdaddy Magazine |
1970 |
Melody
Maker: Ritchie Yorke reports that PH are 'best group
in the world right now' |
1970 |
Brooker
talks to Melody Maker after PH play at the Isle
of Wight Festival |
1970 |
BJ Wilson ...
'player of the month' in
Beat Instrumental |
1969 |
Bristol
Evening Post including brief words from Denny
Cordell |
1969 |
How much did Procol charge to play in 1969?
Read all about it |
1969 |
Article from Camden NJ ...
about the Brooker/Reid
Broadway musical |
1969 |
Psychedelic out!
Procol interview from Cincinnati ... 'plans are vague'! |
1969 |
Germany's Musik Express
on 'Procol Harum's comeback' ...
includes photo of Fisher on guitar |
1969 |
'AWSoP blots out those examination
blues':
Procol play to students in Manchester |
1969 |
'Shining
on Brightly' by John Mendelson in
Crawdaddy Magazine |
1969 |
Beat Instrumental on
Procol's return from USA to UK |
1969 |
Procol
Harum Set to Re-Conquer Britain: BJ Wilson interview
from Top Pops |
1969 |
Brooker
talks to Melody Maker just before A Salty Dog
comes out |
1969 |
Brooker
talks to the Daily Mail just before A Salty
Dog comes out |
1969 |
An
article about Procol Harum in
Jersey City from 1969 |
1969 |
Brooker
talks to Rome's Off-Side about returning to
England from America |
1968 |
Bravo magazine
... Procol Harum's likes and dislikes |
1968 |
San Antonio:
Procol ... should stay with their own
'thing' |
1968 |
Procol subverts
press for
high-minded US university festival investigating origins
of rock |
1968 |
Procol Harum Rocketed to Top of Music World
according to the Ottawa Journal |
1968 |
'Sound of Harum is Sophisticated', says
Tampa Tribune |
1968 |
Much
pleasure, some pain and a can of paraffin:
Procol play free in Croydon |
1968 |
Bizarre Procol 'revelations' about sex,
drugs, and jurisprudence from
Norway's
Popnytt publication |
1968 |
Disc
and Music Echo with Nielson's ice-cream: a card
neatly summarising the PH predicament |
1968 |
Gary Brooker in Beat Instrumental about religion, co-writing with Fisher, and image |
1968 |
Daily Mirror
article about Procol Harum's split
from Tony Secunda's management |
1968 |
Matthew
Fisher gives a somewhat downbeat interview to
Melody Maker |
1968 |
Robin
Trower in Beat Instrumental on his early impressions
of joining Procol Harum |
1967 |
'The Harum Shuffle':
the UK's Rave
writes about the second Procol line-up |
1967 |
'Procol Split Up ... ': the UK's Melody Maker
announces the second Procol line-up |
1967 |
A
very early piece plugging A
Whiter Shade of Pale |
1967 |
Reid
and Brooker ('strange, dreamy' / 'robust and stocky') talk
to the UK's Rave |
1967 |
Interview
with Robin Trower and B J Wilson from
New Musical Express |
1967 |
'Procol Harum: They
Improvise' Record World, 11 November 1967 |
1967 |
Five
pieces about the first public performance of the Trower /
Wilson line-up |
1967 |
Pictures
and text from Holland's Muziek
Express |
1967 |
Procol
Harum briefly mentioned in Rolling Stone #1 |
1967 |
Two brief
encounters of Procol Harum and 'King Jimi'
Hendrix |
1967 |
Three
snippet-reviews of
Homburg |
1967 |
Disc
and Music Echo: front-page AWSoP success for
Procol Harum, with colour picture |
1967 |
Disc
and Music Echo: front-page Homburg news for
Procol Harum, with colour picture |
1967 |
Is Homburg like AWSoP?
Melody Maker's band comments, sauf Gary |
1967 |
Hit
Parader takes seriously the band's tongue-in-cheek self-assessment |
1967 |
Disc ...
revealing and
provocative article about Procol's putative second
single |
1967 |
Disc
and Music Echo: Fisher to make instrumental
solo-album |
1967 |
Record Mirror Procol Harum
(after the re-shuffle) |
1967 |
Record Mirror:
fascinating comments from the early Procol line-up |
1967 |
Keith Reid interview from
Record Mirror |
1967 |
Denny Cordell talks
about Procol Harum in Beat
Instrumental |
1967 |
The
Army's 'In-Show' finds out from Gary Brooker what Homburg
is all about |
1967 |
Harum scarum right to top!
Melody Maker, May
1967 |
1967 |
Paul Williams's
famous PH album feature from
Crawdaddy Magazine |