Procol Harum - Something Magic (1977) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 228 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 51 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Castle/Essential! Records (ESM CD 293)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 228 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 51 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Castle/Essential! Records (ESM CD 293)
When Procol Harum's ninth studio album, Something Magic, was released in March 1977, it sold poorly and was largely dismissed, with the group breaking up at the end of the promotional tour for it. After its previous album, Procol's Ninth, produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Procol Harum might have been expected to go back to a more conventional approach; instead, the group hired the hot studio of the day, Criteria in Miami, and its hot resident producers, Ron and Howie Albert. When the band arrived in Florida and played the songs intended for the album, the Albert brothers threw half of them out. That left half of an album to fill, which led singer/pianist/composer Gary Brooker to turn to a parable-like poem written years earlier by his lyric partner Keith Reid, "The Worm & the Tree," and - in a move anticipating This Is Spinal Tap - writing a musical suite around it to fill up side two…