Procol Back On The Pedestal
Penny Valentine, Sounds, 8 April 1972
PROCOL HARUMS new album — not the extravaganza that comes out this week with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra but the one Gary Brooker and Keith Reid have just finished three tracks for — is probably going to be their most important yet. The album that could finally push them back on the highly-acclaimed pedestal they mysteriously tumbled from four years ago.
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