Library Rock's Backpages

Twice Removed From Procol: Robin Trower

Steven Rosen, Los Angeles Free Press, November 1973

IT TAKES A LOT of gumption to leave a baseball team right after you’ve clinched the pennant, or to walk off the playing field dur-ing the middle of a Super Bowl game, or to quit a rock band as soon as you reach superstar status. Robin Trower made just such a move when he left Procol Harum after that group had completed a highly successful tour of the states and had just released a superb album dominated by the guitarist (Broken Barricades).

Total word count of piece: 961

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.