Nothing but the truth
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Q10a
Apparently the band that recorded this album is called ‘Novum’, and
evidently it contains one or more Procol fan: the bonus track on it is a
Brooker/Reid song, the one that begins ‘It feels as clear like yesterday
…’
EBay’s listing doesn’t name the tracks on this double
CD bootleg, and doesn't even name Procol
Harum. But it does promise that all the
titles are different, and that 'each of this band’s Fiftieth Anniversary
concerts (except for XIV
September)' had contributed a different song.
Assuming this is true, a quick look at 2017's tour statistics page – and
some simple arithmetic – tell us
this recording cannot possibly feature Procol Harum.
Each of the four people pictured on the artwork of this splendid eBay
bargain is a well-known world-class musician and who, having guested on
countless platinum-selling albums, has presumably played or sung on this
one.
The X faces on the CD artwork are not
musicians, but each person’s surname contains a coded reference to a
member of the classic Procol line-up (MMXVII).
The key to who represents whom is easily found in the International
Dictionary of Biography (MMI
edition, Utrecht University Press). For each name, collect
III numbers: the page number, the
number of letters in the first noun in the second sentence of the
biographical entry, and the last pair of digits of the person’s younger
sister's death-date. Reverse these, compile them into a clump in such a
way that no even number is adjacent to any odd number, and vice versa;
jettison fractions or decimals, then translate them into Roman numerals, and Bingo! you have the initials of
the musician concerned! (eg 200 = CC
= Chris Copping).
This is Fake Music, Fake Music OK … bad music by bad dudes. How can it
be ‘live’ in MMXVII when we haven’t
had MMXVII yet? Losers!