LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• NEW GATEFOLD SLEEVE EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC 1968 ALBUM BY PROCOL HARUM.
• CUT AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS.

Released in the USA in September 1968 and in UK in December the same year, ‘Shine On Brightly’ followed on from the huge international success in 1967 of the band’s debut single ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ and the follow up single ‘Homburg’ and built on the creative path begun on Procol Harum’s self-titled debut album issued in January 1968.

Gary Brooker (voice, piano), Robin Trower (lead guitar), David Knights (bass guitar), B.J. Wilson (drums) and Matthew Fisher (Hammond organ) took the music of the band to new heights with their second album. Dominated by the 17-minute epic suite ‘In Held ‘Twas In I’, Procol Harum re-wrote the rule book of popular music with the material written and recorded for ‘Shine On Brightly’.

This new vinyl edition of this classic album has been cut at Abbey Road Studios and utilises the gatefold sleeve design of the September 1968 US release.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
• Quite Rightly So
• Shine On Brightly
• Skip Softly My Moonbeams
• Wish Me Well
• Rambling On
• Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)
SIDE TWO
• In Held Twas in I
• i) Glimpses of Nirvana
• ii) Twas Tea Time at the Circus
• iii) In the Autumn of My Madness
• iv) Look to Your Soul
• v) Grand Finale