Description
Label Review.
69 tracks drawn from every Procol Harum album along with two previously unreleased concerts from the Hollywood Bowl in September 1973 with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra & Bournemouth Winter Gardens in March 1976. Also includes 3DVDs spanning over three & a half hours of previously unreleased footage taken from BBC TV & German TV appearances between 1967 & 1977 featuring unbroadcast footage & the entire Musikladen recording from October 1973. Plus 68pp book. Also available as a 2CD set featuring highlights.
Our Overview.
Procol Harum are best known for their massive 1967 smash “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” which today is a standard. Despite the follow-up single “Homburg” making the Top 10 later that year, few people are aware that the band had a long career with a string of albums as they became a ‘progressive’ act. The band which features mainstay Gary Brooker continues performing today and this eight disc set (5CDs and 3DVDs) should help inform the casual fan of their wider catalogue of which the first three discs draw upon the key tracks from Procol Harum’s illustrious career. Disc four features the band’s legendary concert at the Hollywood Bowl on 21 September 1973 (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Roger Wagner Chorale), whilst disc five features a previously unreleased concert at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens on 17 March 1976.
The DVD content (NTSC – Region Free) features over three and a half hours of footage, mostly previously unreleased. Disc six begins with a performance of ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ on the BBC TV show Top of the Pops from December 1967 before moving to the archives of the German Beat Club series. All of the band’s surviving performances for the show are here, including the entire un-broadcast raw video footage of the band’s Beat Club Workshop studio concert from 1971, shorn of the visual gimmickry of the actual broadcast, revealing the pure performance on DVD for the first time. Disc seven features the entire sixty-five minute recording session of a performance for the German Musikladen series in October 1973, most of which was never shown on television. Disc eight features more BBC TV performances, including a rendition of ‘Pandora’s Box’ from Top of the Pops in September 1975 and the band’s set for the Sight and Sound In Concert series in March 1977.
This lavish re-mastered set also features a sixty-eight page hard backed book with an essay by Patrick Humphries and a lengthy in depth commentary on the performances featured by respected Procol Harum authority Roland Clare. The book also includes many previously unseen photographs and memorabilia from Gary Brooker’s private collection. ‘Still There’ll Be More’ also includes a 60cm x 40 cm reproduction poster from a Procol Harum concert (featuring support from Vivian Stanshall) in 1976.