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Each year at Christmas, following the Scandinavian custom, BtP sets twelve days of Procol puzzles which great numbers of the band's adherents follow with much interest and merriment ... at the end of the trail is typically a tiny answer, which you send in by e-mail to the webmasters, to win one (or more?) of the prizes below. The puzzles start on Christmas Day – some would say that they grow more and more straightforward year by year, while the prizes get more and more desirable.
This year's fine freebies are, we trust you'll agree, every bit as desirable as 1997's, 1998's, 1999's, 2000's, 2001's, 2002's, 2003's, 2004's, 2005's, 2006's, 2007, 2008's, 2009's, 2010's or 2011's: special thanks to Chris Cooke, Procol Harum and Yumi Matsutoya. Click here, in due time, to view the schedule of winners!
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Yumi & Procol Harum 2102 Japan tour – pink, printed hand-towel signed by Gary Brooker, Geoff Whitehorn, Matt Pegg, Josh Phillips, Geoff Dunn and big Japanese star Yumi Matsutoya. |
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A delightful small chunky metal Procol Harum lapel badge, of the very popular ‘lifebelt’ A Salty Dog design originally commissioned by Kellogs. Supplies were thought to have been exhausted long ago, but this spanking new specimen – found in a drawer in his own studio – was kindly donated by Gary Brooker. |
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White Yumi & PH tour t-shirt signed by Gary Brooker, Geoff Whitehorn, Matt Pegg, Josh Phillips, Geoff Dunn and Yumi Matsutoya. |
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A Procol Harum ‘vuvuzela’, the recreational instrument issued to each member of the audience to promote participation in Procol’s orchestral concerts in Denmark, January 2011. Fashioned from cardboard and plastic, it is decorated with images of the band, and uses a single reed to produce one comically-strident note when blown. (story here) |
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A hardback book, the recently-published The Ghosts of A Whiter Shade of Pale by Henry Scott Irvine, signed by the author and by longest-standing Procolers, Gary Brooker and Geoff Whitehorn, with a Christmas dedication. |
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Yumi Matsutoya & Procol Harum 2102 Japan tour – blue-grey, printed hand-towel signed by signed by Gary Brooker, Geoff Whitehorn, Matt Pegg, Josh Phillips, Geoff Dunn and Yumi Matsutoya. |
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White metal / enamel A Whiter Shade of Pale 30 years badge: see illustration here |
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A Procol Rarum tee-shirt, in a size of your choice, depicting Gary Brooker and Keith Reid |
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Yumi & PH tour grey hoodie XL signed by Gary Brooker, Geoff Whitehorn, Matt Pegg, Josh Phillips, Geoff Dunn and Yumi Matsutoya. |
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Procol Anglo/Japanese flag Shine on Brightly variant tee-shirt (black, XL) signed by Gary Brooker, Geoff Whitehorn, Matt Pegg, Josh Phillips, Geoff Dunn and Yumi Matsutoya. |
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Black metal / enamel A Whiter Shade of Pale 30 years badge: see illustration here |
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Yumi & Procol Harum tour book signed once by Gary
Brooker, Geoff Whitehorn, Geoff Dunn, Yumi
Matsutoya, and twice by each of Matt Pegg and Josh Phillips. It has
very high Procol content over its 36 glossy-full-colour pages; about
50 pictures not counting thumbnails of albums; it's perfect-bound;
it contains a discography; it contains an interview with Gary
Brooker; it reveals two new and hitherto-unpublished Brooker
song-lyrics; it contains photographs from many eras of Procol Harum's
existence down the decades. It's a thoroughly desirable Procol
souvenir!
(thanks, Chris)
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Competitors should rank the above prizes in the order they favour them, and send in their preference – all twelve letters, please! – with the solution to the puzzles. Your message will look something like: "The brief answer is [x] and my prize preferences are AGBHCIDJEKFL" We shall allot the first three prizes on a beat-the-clock basis, where the earliest correct response earns its first choice of prize and so on; after that all subsequent correct entries received in the next 48 hours will be placed in the BtP Homburg and the remaining prize-winners will be drawn by a suitably Glamorous Assistant, all being well. In the somewhat unlikely event of there being fewer than twelve winners, the first people to submit correct answers will get more than their fair share of the prizes! The quiz starts on Christmas Day and runs through to Twelfth Night. You can join in at any time, if you have a pencil and an internet connection! |
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