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Main instrument Piano, Organ, (Synths on the Something Magic album)
Albums Something Magic
Rejoined Procol Harum at Redhill in 1997, and Gary Brooker and Friends at Guildford in 2004
Procol HarumBeyond
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19 October 1948
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Main instrument Piano, Organ, (Synths on the Something Magic album) Albums Something Magic Rejoined Procol Harum at Redhill in 1997, and Gary Brooker and Friends at Guildford in 2004 |
Previous bands
Worked with Chris Farlowe, Paladin (same instrumentation as PH), the Terry
Reid Trio, and SNAFU
before joining Procol Harum.
Other work
Since Procol Harum Pete has performed on albums by Eric Clapton, Whitesnake
and numerous others. Has produced several Gold and Platinum albums by artists as
diverse as Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton, the Romantics, Mountain and Motorhead.
Has received Grammy nominations for best album in various categories. Peter has played in jazz settings with some of the greatest players of all time, and has written a number one song on the Billboard charts. Has conducted the New York Philharmonic strings on sessions that he has scored.
Plays with several bands in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, including the five-piece blues band 'Nickel and Dime' – which Gary Brooker jammed with during his and Franky's Florida holiday, May 1998.
Is now running Peter Solley Productions, a company producing MIDI files: visit their website
1997 interview with Pete Solley for this website, by Ronald L Smith
How Eddie Jobson might have joined Procol Harum in Peter Solley's place
Sessions list: all non-PH and non-Paramounts records (up to 1986) to which Procol Harum members contributed
A snippet about a close encounter between Peter and Procol Harum in 1967 before AWSoP
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