PROCOL HARUM - All This And More: Includes DVD + 3CD-BOX

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This unique retrospective - three audio CDs and a DVD - documents the sound and vision of Keith Reid and Gary Brooker’s epoch-making British band. Complementing early smash hits, flipsides and choice studio cuts, its concert audio includes legendary west-coast American performances and Procol’s lost epic, Last Train to Niagara; video footage spans sophisticated European orchestral outings and a storming Isle of Wight Festival. A 72-page book contains rare photographs, chronological context from Patrick Humphries and detailed song-notes by Roland Clare. All this, and more, comprises the ultimate Procol Harum compendium - the first forty years.

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Beautifully packaged four-disc career overview with live cuts, single B-sides and DVD footage

The roccoco, Bach-influenced brilliance of the 1967 Procol benchmark hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale - andthe recent acrimonious court case with former member Matthew Fisher over its songwriting credit - should not be allowed to overshadow the magisterial nature of the work that followed.

The aptly titled All This And More... featuring 68 of the the group’s 110 original compositions, goes a long way to enshrining their position as one of the treasures to emerge from the 60s.

The piano/organ combination so compellingly utilised on Whiter Shade... was possibly the most progressive rock development of its era (see Dylan and The Band). Particularly over Procol’s first three albums, such innovation gave them a broad and lavish sonic template. The devastating blues-laced, compositionally dazzling, guitar fire of Robin Trower (Cerdes) added another compelling voice to their armoury.

Keith Reid’s lyrics - blending English nonsense tradition (the carnivalesque In Held Twas In I), classical references (the epic Blue Danube) and a love for Dylanesque allusion - would also prove to be a compelling element throughout the band’s lengthy career. Thus the sense of mystery inherent in Whiter Shade... would remain a Procol Harum constant.

But far from obscurantism for its own sake, Reid’s words elide masterfully with the full range of emotion and ambition in their - particularly post-Trower - often symphonic sound. It’s small wonderThe Who’s Tommy and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody can be traced to Procol’s influence.

The live cuts on the third audio CD and the package-completing DVD, featuring performances between 1974 and 2006, show how the unfailingly soulful Gary Brooker and ever-changing Procol Harum line-up (19 musicians have so far passed through their ranks) were able to take his club jazz, R&B and gospel beginnings in Southend bar band The Paramounts into uncharted territories.

With this bounty of riches and a brand new albumscheduled for next year, that enjoyable process continues
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