- Format: CD
- Label: Musea
- Genre: Progressive
Digipack
1 - Bringing Home The Bacon (4'28)
2 - Shine On Brightly (3'55)
3 - Homburg (3'30)
4 - One More Time (4'38)
5 - Grand Hotel (6'35)
6 - Man With A Mission (4'50)
7 - The Devil Came From Kansas (5'52)
8 - Whiskey Train (7'20)
9 - The King Of Hearts (5'36)
10 - A Salty Dog (4'26)
11 - Whaling Stories (8'03)
12 - All Our Dreams Are Sold (5'32)
13 - Repent Walpurgis (7'40)
PROCOL HARUM, the fruit of the collaboration between lyricist Keith REID and singer Gary BROOKER, gained worldwide renown with their 1967 hit "A Whiter Shade Of Pale". The well-known BACH theme that comprised the music was played on organ by keyboardist Matthew FISHER. Robin TROWER's HENDRIX-like guitar was one of the distinguishing marks of the group until he left in 1971; after that, the group played a clever mixture of rock, Progressive and psychedelia. The self-titled album was released in 1967, while "Shine on Brightly" came out the year after. 1969 brought the maritime lament "A Salty Dog", with "Home" following a year later (by which time Matthew FISHER had departed) and "Broken Barricades" another year after that. "Grand Hotel" from 1973 is probably their masterpiece. "Exotic Birds and Fruit" followed in 1974 and "Procol's Ninth" in 1975, the latter showing a reorientation towards simpler and more accessible rock. "Something Magic" was released in 1977, two years before the group broke up... In the same collection, you can find 2 albums recorded with a twenty year gap between them - "Live - In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra" (1971) and "One more Time" (1992), the latter having been recorded in the Netherlands on the tour that followed the partial reunion at the beginning of the 90's, promoting the "Prodigal Stranger" album (1991). In 1995 came "Symphonic Music of Procol Harum", and now comes "The Well's on Fire", after an eight year break. Incidentally, the name is an oddly-spelled version of the Latin phrase "Procul horum", meaning "beyond the limits".
