Procol Harum Beyond the Pale										<script language="JAVASCRIPT" src="http://imgserv.adbutler.com/adserve/;ID=114157;size=468x60;setID=28742;aff=on;loc=0;type=js"></script><NOSCRIPT><a href="http://imgserv.adbutler.com/go2/;ID=114157;size=468x60;setID=28742;aff=on;loc=0"><img src="http://imgserv.adbutler.com/adserve/;ID=114157;size=468x60;setID=28742;aff=on;loc=0;type=img" border="0" width="468" height="60"></a></NOSCRIPT>
PH on stage \| PH on record \| PH in print \| BtP features \| What's new \| Interact with BtP \| For sale \| Site search \| Home

Procyl ... Procul ... Harem ... Haven

Some nasty typos and 'thinkos'

Jonny Moen writes to BtP (regarding this article)

I almost go mad every time people write 'Procol Harum'
wrong!

There's a lot of ways to do it ... I try to argue with "what about Rolling Stunes" or something like that, but I'm seldom heard!

Worst is when catalogues, pretending to be serious, do it the way this illustration shows!

It's taken from Music Master by John Humphries in 1984.

Claiming to be "The world's greatest record catalogue", it contains 860 enormous pages!

Nice - very nice!

Note the random oscillation between correctitude and impropriety

The UK's TV Times (mid-December 2000 ... see above) ought to know how to punctuate Jools's ... but in the light of that incompetence, perhaps the hilarious stupidity of 'Proul Haven' is understandable. Even by clicking on the illustration, it's too late to put anything right, and we fear for the sanity of Jonny Moen (see comment above).

Gary Brooker's comment (20 December) was simply, 'This one takes the biscuit.' Click here to see the pictorial response from Henry Spinetti.

All that BtP can say in favour of TV Times is that it's slightly less useless than the corresponding Radio Times which didn't even bother to mention Gary at all ...

We'd like to tip our collective Homburgs to the sound-alike artists' band 'Beyond the Fringe', who cover Conquistador, and whose mis-spelling of 'Procol Harum' is among the most ghastly we have ever seen.

Doubtless they are more accurate when it comes to music!

More Features at 'Beyond the Pale'