A very cheery image of the early line-up, Knights, Brooker, Fisher, Harrison and Royer
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A very cheery image of the early line-up, Knights, Brooker, Fisher, Harrison and Royer |
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A particularly odd presentation of the classic six-man line-up from the early days ... it seems as though BJ is holding Matthew's hand, while Gary hides at the back and Keith cowers behind Robin's unusually large headpiece. Despite the whimsy, no-one's smiling ... |
Those same clothes again (sans hat), thanks to
Classic Rock (September 2007), whose cover asks ...  |
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| On the set of the UK's Top of the Pops,
judging from the liberal use of tinfoil:
Royer, Knights,
Brooker, Harrison and
Fisher. This was before the days of Matthew's monkish cowl, before the days of the 'mediaeval spacemen' clobber ... and before the days of a complete drum kit by the look of things: there's even a stand with no cymbal on it. Peculiar to place the drummer at the front, occluding the singer and the signature instrumentalist, but perhaps highlighting the difficulty of miming convincingly to a track played by someone else who had a full kit. |
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Wilson, Trower, Knights, Brooker and Fisher, photographed at a time when the psychedelic clobber seems still to be in favour with some members of the band, and not with others. Gary's shoes are worthy of particular attention.
(Thanks, Claes) |
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1967's Muziek Expres in Holland is responsible for this intriguing collage of the early line-up |
| Never mind a Robe of Silk ... how about 'a belt of string' for Bobby Harrison? Matthew's jacket is comically fastened too. |
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Procol Harum dominate the front page of the UK's Record Mirror on 10 June 1967 |
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Holland's Muziek Expres (1967) originally published this portrait
of the early line-up
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Here's an unusual 1968 Italian promo card showing the band at the beach, though not quite in recreational garb. Can anyone read what's written on BJ's shirt? |
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Psychedelic Harum at the Fillmore East in 1968. Note, from the way the guitars are being held, that this picture is not reversed ... very unusual to see the Hammond stage right; and what sort of piano is Gary Brooker playing? |
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John Emmett sends us 'what I believe is intended to be Gary B, from a
1967 Marshall leaflet.
'What a luxury to have a graphic artist it would be for today's leaflets!' |
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1969 ... a promo picture showing a variant pose from the famous medieval-spacemen-in-ruined-temple series |
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Yet another very early pose, complete with 'Chinese clobber' |
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Another pose from the same photo-shoot ... same clothes, different (presumably more authentic) background |
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Those same clothes again, thanks to
Classic Rock (September 2007), whose cover asks ... |
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Rummaging through one of my old scrapbooks, I came across this. Variations, I've seen (above, for instance), but I don't remember this one, offhand. (John O) Enjoy the different facial expressions! |
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Here are some individual shots of the early line-up in performance, from the cover of a 1968 Turkish magazine. Top row: BJ, David Knight, Matthew Fisher Lower: Gary Brooker, Robin Trower |
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Image from an Italian card from 1968 |
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Image from a Swedish card from 1967 |
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There were seemingly endless permutations of his pose ... this one appeared as a magazine poster in 1967 |
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Interesting LP-label for the well-known Procol interview |
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Procol Harum on the 'marquee' at the Fillmore East, June 1970 (thanks, Joan, for correcting the date) |
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