"You'll cry out for mercy, but still there'll be more..." So proclaimed English prog rockers Procol Harum on their fourth album, 1970's Home. Three years before, the group burst onto the scene with the baroque-inspired "A Whiter Shade of Pale," an international hit that topped the British charts and reached No. 5 in America. And the group presses on, having released their 12th album, Novum, in April - a month shy of 50 years since "Pale" first landed in U.K. shops.
To celebrate this half-century mark, Cherry Red's Esoteric imprint will release a deluxe, eight-disc set capturing the best of the band on record and on video. Still There'll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 features three discs of highlights from the band's albums two live concert debuts (a legendary 1973 date at The Hollywood Bowl with The Los Angeles Philharmonic and a 1976 set at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens in England) and three DVDs spanning the band's European TV appearances during their first decade. Footage from Top of The Pops, Beat Club and Sight and Sound is featured, with particular highlights including unaired footage from Musikladen and raw camera footage from Beat Club that omits the psychedelic camera effects added in post-production.
The deluxe package features a 68-page hardcover book that includes liner notes by Patrick Humphries, live performance notes by Procol Harum authority Roland Clare and rare and unseen personal photographs from the personal archive of the band's founder and lead singer, Gary Brooker. A reproduction of a 60 cm x 40 cm show flier from 1976 rounds out the set. Still There'll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 is available March 23; pre-order it below!
Still There'll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 (Esoteric Recordings ECLEC82610 (U.K.), 2018)
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CD 1
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
- Homburg
- Cerdes (Outside the Gates of)
- Salad Days (Are Here Again)
- Kaleidoscope
- Repent Walpurgis
- Understandably Blue
- Shine On Brightly
- Quite Rightly So
- Skip Softly My Moonbeams
- A Salty Dog
- The Devil Came from Kansas
- Pilgrim's Progress
- The Milk of Human Kindness
- Long Gone Geek
- Whisky Train
- Barnyard Story
- Still There'll Be More
- Whaling Stories
CD 2
- Simple Sister
- Broken Barricades
- Luskus Delph
- Memorial Drive
- Conquistador
- In Held 'Twas in I (Glimpses of Nirvana/'Twas Tea Time At the Circus/In the Autumn of My Madness/Look to Your Soul/Grand Finale)
- Grand Hotel
- Robert's Box
- For Liquorice John
- Souvenir of London
- Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)
- Nothing But the Truth
- The Idol
- The Thin End of the Wedge
CD 3
- Beyond the Pale
- As Strong As Samson
- Pandora's Box
- The Unquiet Zone
- Fool's Gold
- Typewriter Torment
- Something Magic
- Skating on Thin Ice
- Strangers in Space
- Perpetual Motion
- Holding On
- An Old English Dream
- This World is Rich (For Stephen Maboe)
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- Can't Say That
- The Only One
CD 4: Live At The Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra & the Roger Wagner Chorale - 9/21/1973 (previously unreleased)
- Sanctus
- Broken Barricades
- Simple Sister
- A Christmas Camel
- Toujours L'Amour
- Grand Hotel
- Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)
- A Salty Dog
- Conquistador
- Grand Finale
- TV Ceasar/Rule Britannia
CD 5: Live At Bournemouth Winter Gardens - 3/17/1976 (previously unreleased)
- The Unquiet Zone
- Beyond the Pale
- Whaling Stories
- All This and More
- A Salty Dog
- I Keep Forgetting
- The Blue Danube
- I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)/Nothing But the Truth
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
DVD 1
- A Whiter Shade of Pale (Top of the Pops, BBC - 12/26/1967)
- Homburg (Beat Club, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/30/1967)
- Quite Rightly So (Beat Club, Radio Bremen, Germany - 6/22/1968)
- A Salty Dog (Beat Club, Radio Bremen, Germany - 6/28/1969)
- The Devil Came from Kansas (Beat Club, Radio Bremen, Germany - 8/30/1969)
- Long Gone Geek (Beat Club, Radio Bremen, Germany - 8/30/1969)
- Shine on Brightly (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Still There'll Be More (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Pilgrim's Progress (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Quite Rightly So (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Magdalene My Regal Zonophone (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Power Failure (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- A Salty Dog (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Simple Sister (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- In the Autumn of My Madness (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Look to Your Soul (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
- Grand Finale (Beat Club Workshop, Radio Bremen, Germany - 12/27/1971)
DVD 2: Musikladen, Radio Bremen, Germany - 10/25/1973
- Drunk Again
- Grand Hotel
- Conquistador
- Bringing Home the Bacon
- Too Much Between Us
- Toujours L'Amour
- Whaling Stories
- Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)
- Kaleidoscope
DVD 3: Sight & Sound In Concert, The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London - 3/12/1977 (except Track 1)
- Pandora's Box (Top of the Pops, BBC - 9/4/1975)
- Something Magic
- Conquistador
- Nothing But the Truth
- Strangers in Space
- Grand Hotel
- Pandora's Box
- Skating on Thin Ice
- The Mark of the Claw
- Wizard Man
- This Old Dog
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
Disc 1, Track 1 from Deram single DM-126, 1967
Disc 1, Track 2 from Regal Zonophone single RZ 3003, 1967
Disc 1, Tracks 3-6 from Procol Harum (Regal Zonophone LRZ 1001, 1967)
Disc 1, Track 7 from Procol Harum: 40th Anniversary Edition (Salvo/Fly Records SALVOCD016, 2009)
Disc 1, Tracks 8-10 from Shine On Brightly (Regal Zonophone LRZ 1004, 1968)
Disc 1, Tracks 11-14 from A Salty Dog (Regal Zonophone SLRZ 1009, 1969)
Disc 1, Track 15 from "A Salty Dog" single - Regal Zonophone RZ 3019, 1969
Disc 1, Tracks 16-19 from Home (Regal Zonophone SLRZ 1014, 1970)
Disc 2, Tracks 1-4 from Broken Barricades (Chrysalis ILPS 9158, 1971)
Disc 2, Tracks 5-6 from Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (Chrysalis CHR 1004, 1972)
Disc 2, Tracks 7-11 from Grand Hotel (Chrysalis CHR 1037, 1973)
Disc 2, Tracks 12-14 and Disc 3, Tracks 1-2 from Exotic Birds and Fruit (Chrysalis CHR 1058, 1974)
Disc 3, Tracks 3-6 from Procol's Ninth (Chrysalis CHR 1080, 1975)
Disc 3, Tracks 7-9 from Something Magic (Chrysalis CHR 1130, 1977)
Disc 3, Tracks 10-11 from The Prodigal Stranger (Zoo Entertainment 74321 13888-2. 1991)
Disc 3, Tracks 12-14 from The Well's On Fire (Eagle Records EAGCD209, 2003)
Disc 3, Tracks 15-16 from Novum (Eagle Records EAGCD659, 2017)
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