New Musical Express, July 1970: 'Heading for No 1'
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New Musical Express, July 1970: 'Heading for No 1'
Rolling Stone, 3 September 1970
The Miami News, 20 July 1970 (an exceptional piece of writing)
Peter Bourne's 2017 reappraisal
Laura Nelson ... a must-read!
Trotsky
Transcript of the Rolling Stone advert (right)
ABOUT PROCOL HARUM'S HOME YOU SHOULD "DRAW YOUR OWN
CONCLUSIONS..." JUST AS THE OBSERVERS QUOTED BELOW HAVE DRAWN THEIRS:
"...I'm really convinced that this album...is just about as
historic a landmark as Sgt. Pepper was. It's definitely one of the finest albums
produced in the past few years. I think that HOME is better than either
of the two Band albums, and there IS a basis for comparison: emotionally, Procol
comes off well in front..." Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express "...I've been awaiting this LP as anxiously as I awaited A
Salty Dog, which turned out to be the best album of 1969 as far as I was
concerned...by the sixth time I'd played this album, I was convinced that
HOME is to 1970 what A Salty Dog was to last year. At this point
Procol Harum is only a bass line away from being the best rock band in
existence..." Bud Scoppa, Rock
"...Procol Harum just keeps on getting better and better,
tighter, more rhythmic and souful [sic]. They are probably the best song rock
group around..." Circus
"...Robin Trower...unleashes an atmospheric, Hendrix-style
wailing, screeching assault that successfully replaces the vanished organist
(Matthew Fisher)...Gary Brooker... piano playing...as pounding, arpeggio-ridden
and disturbingly melodic as ever...Keith Reid, whose lyrics are just as fine as
ever...Master of the compact line in pop music..." Gary Von Tersch, Rolling
Stone
"...(Its) theme never coalesces into a unified statement, but it doesn't seem to
be trying to. It is just some wildly imaginative visions placed in an equally
imaginative musical setting of rock-hard rock and roll. And it all works to just
short of perfection..." Richard Cromelin, Show
AN EXTRAORDINARY ROCK AND ROLL EXPERIENCE PROVIDED BY PROCOL HARUM ON A&M
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