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PROCOL HARUM ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG
Scot t Meze

ISBN 978-1-78952-315-7

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Publication: 28 MARCH 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523157
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789522570 Nektar On Track

• Pioneers of blues-inflected progressive rock,
but best known for one of the biggest singles
of all time ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ from 1967
• Other hits include ‘Homburg’ and
Conquistador
• Hits albums include A Salty Dog and Procols
Ninth

Few artists have had as great an impact with their debut
single as Procol Harum. Mesmerising and perplexing in
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ equal measure, ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ remains the
perfect distillation of the possibilities of psychedelia in that
Scott Meze is a psychedelic music obsessive born in Britain but brief period when British pop seemed to promise a summer
based in Tokyo, the music connoisseur's capital of the world. Scott of love that would last forever.
Meze has never knowingly tripped the light fandango. However, he
did once successfully chat up a girl by reciting The Miller’s Tale to But as this book reveals, from the start Procol Harum
her. envisioned a post-psychedelic landscape of the heartsick
and bewildered. Through Gary Brooker’s classically
inspired melodies and soaring, soulful vocals, lyricist Keith
Reid told harrowing stories of voyages into the darkness of
the soul, through graveyards of the damned, and to the
depths of madness.

Sales: Star Book Sales LLP Aided by musicians of the calibre of Matthew Fisher and
T: 01404 515050 Robin Trower, Procol Harum invented and mapped out the
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com interplay of organ and electric guitar soon to explode into

Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. prog rock’s epic structures, and pioneered the integration of
Email: orders@combook.co.uk band and orchestra that broke the boundaries separating
Phone: 01892 837171 young musicians and the establishment. It’s all here in Scott
Meze’s guide, from the first note to the last of a legacy that
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change
without notice. 16/10/2023 cries out to be heard.