What was new at 'Beyond the Pale'

Enjoy the seventh instalment of this year's Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... and keep one eye on the prizes

Download Gary Brooker's new song ... here's the page ... this ends on 5 January!

Here is the sixth instalment of the annual Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... do keep an eye on the fab prizes

Add your name and town to the Procol fans' world atlas ... now showing 140 names and counting

Enjoy the fifth instalment of this year's Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... and keep one eye on the prizes

Download Gary Brooker's newly-recorded song, on which he sings and plays all instruments ... here's the page!  And there's jewel-case artwork from a fan (thanks, Evan) if you're planning to burn it to CD for your private enjoyment: click on the thumbnail.

Here is the fourth instalment of the annual Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... do keep an eye on the fab prizes

Add your name and town to the Procol fans' world atlas ... now showing one hundred names and counting

Enjoy the third instalment of this year's Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... and keep one eye on the prizes

Download Gary Brooker's newly-recorded song ... here's the page!

Here is the second instalment of the annual Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... do keep an eye on the fab prizes

Add your name and town to the Procol fans' world atlas ... now showing one hundred names and counting

Enjoy the first instalment of this year's Christmas puzzles (thanks, John) ... and keep one eye on the prizes

Here's how to play. To answer a recent question, 'a' does count as a separate word.

Download Gary Brooker's newly-recorded song, on which he sings and plays all instruments ... here's the page!

Here's the roster of fab prizes for BtP's annual Christmas Quiz ... have a browse and see which you most desire!

Added a report from the 'Mick Brownlee and Friends' gig on Sunday, featuring Procolers Brooker, Bronze, and Copping (thanks, One-Eye)

For the next few days, while the BtP webmasters are in Southend for the Paramounts reunion, we are delighted to leave you in the very capable hands of Jonas Söderström in Stockholm, our Replacement Cook. To find his updates, read on! (thanks, Jonas)

Added a newspaper report about the recent Shades reunion in Southend (thanks, John)

Waitress!
Could this kitchen be complete without a waitress? Of course not; but luckily the long-lost Waitress Who Served Procol Harum During The Recording of Procol's Ninth has been found: yes, have a look at "Following a free spirit" from Citytimes / St Peterburg Times.

Does Procol cling to a rocking Moss?
Procol Harum was not inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" this year either, causing some fans to rather call it a Hall of Shame (and others to say "don't bother").

But this year, besides artists (well, sort of) Black Sabbath and Blondie, a lifetime achievement award was also given to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M records in Los Angeles in 1962.

But wait! Have you seen how The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes Alpert's and Moss' credentials?

"Alpert and Moss built one of the most successful independent record labels in the world and signed artists such as Procol Harum, Supertramp, Peter Frampton, the Police, Joe Jackson and John Hiatt."
Press release, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 28 November 2005

I'll agree that signing Procol is worth a lifetime achievement award – but what about the stuff then?

Added the first date – a great festival – to Procol Harum's 2006 live performance schedule   (thanks Chris, thanks Andree)

Procol fans' world atlas ... who will be the first fan to declare from the city of Procol Harum's first announced concert in 2006 ?

  '... a mature artist and fantastic record producer at the peak of his powers... '

Added a third page of screenshots from a British television programme about A Whiter Shade of Pale  (thanks, Larry)

Have you visited the tour of the Procol Fans' Atlas ? This will be of interest to fans of the Beatles and the Stones as well as of Procol Harum. Read through it then explore the world of PH fans ... and add your town / state / country. 

The rumours are now confirmed: the line-up in Southend-on-Sea next Saturday will be Gary Brooker, Chris Copping, Robin Trower and Mick Brownlee ... namely, the original line-up. The gig has been sold out a long time and BtP has now disposed of six extra tickets to people who applied to us for assistance.

To satisfy popular request, added a tour of the Procol Fans' Atlas. This will be of interest to fans of the Beatles and the Stones as well as of Procol Harum. Read through it then explore the world of PH fans ... and add your town / state / country. 

Christmas shopping reminder: all those books, DVDs, CDs, electronic and computer items, and so forth that you will be buying in the next few weeks ... if you're shopping at Amazon, please enter their site via these links –  Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon Canada, Amazon USA – and your purchases will earn a cent or two for BtP.

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December 9:

Added a second page of screenshots from a British television programme about A Whiter Shade of Pale (thanks, Larry)

Nice to see former members of Procol Harum starting to show up on the Procol fans' world atlas! You can read subscribers' messages by clicking on their map-pins.

Added another piece of press speculation about the line-up for next week's Paramounts reunion (thanks, John).  

Added a piece of press speculation about the line-up for next week's Paramounts reunion (thanks, Dave). "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished" (thanks, Hamlet) ...

Here's another, longer version of the same piece from a related newspaper (thanks, John)

Procol fans' world atlas ... will there prove to be a PH fan in every state of the USA?

Procol fans' atlas: it's a while since we took down the page recording the names and whereabouts of Procol fans who visit this site (some spammer had visited it). In its place, we've set up a world map to which you can add your name and town (with a photo and message, if you wish). It will be good fun to see where all the Procoholics are (and spammers can't reach you). Furthermore, a visible indication of the spread of the band's admirers might just be useful fuel for those who want to see Procol inaugurated in America's 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'.

If you visit the new map by clicking here (then clicking on the little map-viewer itself: it should be self-explanatory) you will also see a slide-show of pictures people have uploaded to the map site (provided by Frappr, the Friends' Mapper). Wot larks, eh? 

Added a report from the first Shades reunion in Southend-on-Sea (thanks, John)

What did it cost to hear the Paramounts in the Shades days? Added more Southend-related memoirs in the lead-up to the club's reunion (thanks, John)

Added a page of impressions from the excellent new Robin Trower release, his first DVD

Don't forget that BtP's updates (daily since October 1997) are archived on the site ... visit this page