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New Musical Express, July 1970: 'Heading for No 1'

Rolling Stone, 3 September 1970

The Miami News, 20 July 1970 (an exceptional piece of writing)

John McFerrin, online

Home reviewed in 2006

The Regal Zonophone albums

BadCat (online)

Peter Bourne's 2017 reappraisal

Laura Nelson ... a must-read!

Trotsky

Transcript of the Rolling Stone advert (right)

ABOUT PROCOL HARUM'S HOME YOU SHOULD "DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS..." JUST AS THE OBSERVERS QUOTED BELOW HAVE DRAWN THEIRS:

"...I'm really convinced that this album...is just about as historic a landmark as Sgt. Pepper was. It's definitely one of the finest albums produced in the past few years. I think that HOME is better than either of the two Band albums, and there IS a basis for comparison: emotionally, Procol comes off well in front..." Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express
 
"...(Its) theme never coalesces into a unified statement, but it doesn't seem to be trying to. It is just some wildly imaginative visions placed in an equally imaginative musical setting of rock-hard rock and roll. And it all works to just short of perfection..." Richard Cromelin,
Show

"...I've been awaiting this LP as anxiously as I awaited A Salty Dog, which turned out to be the best album of 1969 as far as I was concerned...by the sixth time I'd played this album, I was convinced that HOME is to 1970 what A Salty Dog was to last year. At this point Procol Harum is only a bass line away from being the best rock band in existence..." Bud Scoppa, Rock

"...Procol Harum just keeps on getting better and better, tighter, more rhythmic and souful [sic]. They are probably the best song rock group around..." Circus

"...Robin Trower...unleashes an atmospheric, Hendrix-style wailing, screeching assault that successfully replaces the vanished organist (Matthew Fisher)...Gary Brooker... piano playing...as pounding, arpeggio-ridden and disturbingly melodic as ever...Keith Reid, whose lyrics are just as fine as ever...Master of the compact line in pop music..." Gary Von Tersch, Rolling Stone

AN EXTRAORDINARY ROCK AND ROLL EXPERIENCE PROVIDED BY PROCOL HARUM ON A&M RECORDS AND TAPES
Produced by Chris Thomas


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