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Procol Harum,
Still There’ll Be More: An Anthology 1967–2017 (Esoteric)
The dateline is not a typo: The first three CDs in this box – which
opens, inevitably, with the 1967 début single A Whiter Shade of Pale
– are an effective capsule history of this British progressive-rock
band, which is still in business under founding singer-pianist Gary
Brooker. There are two live CDs – from 1973 with the Los Angeles
Symphony Orchestra and a 1976 UK tour – that attest to the vitality of
Procol Harum’s Euro-classical twist on electric-Sixties Dylan, right to
the verge of punk. But the juicy core of this set is the three DVDs of
TV appearances from Procol Harum’s first decade, including an episode of
Germany’s Beat Club in which the 1971 line-up revisits the early
peak of the group’s psychedelic pomp: the Side Two suite from 1968’s
Shine on Brightly.
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