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Aerostat to Hooting Yard was published on 21 January at a terrific initial
discount (£4.00 + VAT, or 5 USD).
It’s an e-book sampler of the work of the UK’s Frank Key, bonkers
visionary and inheritor of mantles previously worn by Blake, Stern, Lear, Lennon
and
Edward Gorey. Frank – who comes, like Procol Harum, from Essex – is amazingly
widely-read but, amazingly, not yet widely read: we're hoping this publication
will change that.Roland from BtP was invited by the publisher to select an anthology of Key's work – which is weirdly hilarious and quintessentially English – and to write an introduction. His essay is being billed as 'the first major commentary on the Hooting Yard oeuvre', and it contains half-a-dozen references to Keith Reid / Procol Harum, one of them being Keith's hitherto-unpublished comment about AWSoP-and-LSD. There's also a quotation from the liner-notes to the LP version of Shine on Brightly in the introduction, as well as a story by Frank Key that quotes Conquistador extensively.