Useful resources
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Words of Procol songs |
eBay |
Utrecht University |
Setlists for Fiftieth Anniversary
Tour | 2017 tour stats |
Novum
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Tonight's topic is |
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An eBay bargain?
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The answer is |
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Nothing but the truth
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Choose the question below that is most applicable to
the answer above. Make a note of the Question Number
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Q10a
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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
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No Procol song starts with those
words, though it does sound a bit like 'Nothing But the Truth' |
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Q10b |
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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.
The 2017 Tour stats page tells
us that 29 different Procol Harum songs were performed at 34
Anniversary Tour concerts for which BtP has setlists. So this is
obviously the correct question ... it is 'nothing but the truth' |
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Q10c |
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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.
There are not four but five
people ... Chaplin, Kafka, Marx, Putin and Teller ... and
Chaplin would seem to be the only noted musician among them |
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Q10d |
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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).
Clearly twaddle from top to
bottom. How many Procolers' initials can be made from Roman
numerals? Is Chris Copping in fact the only example? |
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Q10e |
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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!
This statement is
characteristically ill-informed, boorishly phrased and contemptibly stupid |
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