procol harum the idol

[@patreid100]

RIP Alan Cartwright +. Brilliant bass line, brilliant everything.

[@theesbband]

Fantastic song from a brilliant band. Possibly Mick Grabham's finest hour with PH, and, as always, superb drums from the much-missed Barry Wilson, RIP. Saw them in Prague November 2010 - ******* wonderful, and my kids loved it too.

[@Fernandocatan]

I agree with you. Mich Grabham plays wonderfully here! B.J. Wilson was not possible to replace in my opinion. He was the Zeus of the drummers!

[@theesbband]

@@Fernandocatan Well said!

[@keithpittell3944]

I saw PH with Trower at RAH in '70, Dave Ball twice in about '71 and in '72, and once with Mick Grabham in about '74. Procol Harum was great whomever the axe man was... RIP Gary Brooker and BJ Wilson. U took me places musically like no one else could...

[@theesbband]

@@keithpittell3944 Completely agree.😀

[@samuelthompson9274]

My Favorite Progressive Rock Band of all times.

[@rufus_mcdufus]

I just love this song, and the addition of the animation here is just masterful. One of my favourite music videos ever! I love the Mick Grabham solo towards the end as well, but just wish they'd mixed it a tiny bit louder.

[@Keith2296]

When things get bad... there's always Procol Harum...

[@musicplateau1]

The only band that can stop someone at the gate and send them back from whence they came. There are only a few bands who have ever had this kind of enigmatic, planetary pull.

[@keithpittell3944]

Saw them 5 times. They were the greatest

[@loupasternak]

There's Procol....... and then there's the rest.

[@shaunsk]

The best song on a great album,by one of the best bands,when these things still mattered.

[@ronmacdonald4134]

One amazing piece of visual sequencing ever! I draw these …I’ve been listening to this since it came out….yip I’m an old guy! Procol…❤️🐇😵‍💫

[@chris_cerf]

Absolutely marvelous! You did my favorite band ever proud. Thank you!!!!

[@knownfact4905]

Great song, perfect performance and so stunningly prophetic.

[@GIT_ARMAN]

This is a special song, and it has meaning behind it

[@peterbaker8369]

I never, ever get bored with listening to Procol Harum. A vastly under-rated band, and still touring!

[@DemianPanello]

I agree.

[@mcraygb]

Just saw them in Atlanta, Georgia on July 20th. Gary's voice still in tact. Great show !! No other group has ever sounded like them. What a great, and, under-rated songwriter !

[@cityzen2717]

W/o bj wilson, they cannot b the same.

[@randypotter7379]

Gary was the brain of the band, but Barrie was the heart .

[@patricklemeur6360]

G BROOKER !!toujours la grande classe ...titre magnifique !organ C COOPIN !!

[@PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE]

I'm sure I saw this video on T.V. before the era of MTV. (Mid "70's") I was so jazzed. I saw P.H. at Claremont Men's College in "73". They played "NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" before this album was released. Like surviving a beautiful relationship, I've been spoiled by this tasteful quality tune smithing.

[@frankiez3652]

Might just be my favorite lead solo of all time. Perfection.

[@lorenapasquetti8627]

Grandi Procol Harum💟grande video...🙆‍♂️

[@patricklemeur6360]

encore magique ! BROOKER avec la classe !un bon album!...un fan!

[@lorenapasquetti8627]

@@patricklemeur6360 👍🙆‍♂️😍

[@ronmacdonald4134]

So freaking amazing! I love everything about this!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@purdueman2012]

Not sure how I got into this band in the 70's...but I have all their music..incredible band..Keith Reid's lyrics...and Gary's music...awesome...

[@ronmacdonald4134]

Yes….we did! Many of us!♥️♥️♥️

[@rustyshackleford9115]

Quanta dolcezza e nostalgia mi trasmette questa bella canzone dei Procol Harum!

[@hmol1955]

The compositions on this album is some of yhe finest in Rock history, and one of the finest produced almums as well - Exotic Birds and Fruit. The film here - also IF it involves a lot of quotes and "stealing - is a fine piece of work, I think. The song can bare the prolonged ending. Thank You.

[@annakelman6627]

What a magnificent video, a la Terry Gilliam, I felt .....

[@adamdabs]

The best song on the Exotic Birds and Fruit album - great video too

[@erichanze6113]

adamdabs and the rest for the cats ? Fresh fruits.... But i go with you, the idol is and rest one on my prefered, please let hear those music to youg people... Sorry for my poore english, i'am just a belgian, small country but large ears...

[@thomaspick4123]

What about, Strong As Samson?

[@kodredcud]

@@thomaspick4123 Yes!

[@ИринаЛарионова-ц8о]

@@kodredcud as strong as samson is best for me

[@PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE]

Thank you for bringing the "Rock of Julliard" to us mortals.

[@MegaCirse]

Cette musique se déplie comme un livre d'images plein d'étoiles, où viennent filer les oiseaux, tourner les farandoles, claquer les crécelles et danser les sorciers🌺 les arrangements étalent leur mystère, le chant se remplit de ferveur et les instruments ont la rondeur et le brillant des carillons 🦄

[@MrDaiohAzu]

Je vois vos commentaires sur tous les bons morceaux de rock/prog 70's vous, ahahah

[@MegaCirse]

Oui, il est vrai j'aime la poésie des mots ... et des notes ! D'ailleurs allez-y voir vous même si vous ne voulez pas me croire @@MrDaiohAzu

[@keithpittell3944]

I saw PH do this song in concert in the 70's. They take u to a place that's hard to fathom... Bethoven through Marshalls.

[@ИринаЛарионова-ц8о]

as strong as samson and the idol best songs on ebaf

[@ornjonasson8873]

One of many great tracks this one here by Procol Harum. The associated video is also great.

[@briandelion49]

Love it, love it!! Really captures the mood. Make more to other PH songs.

[@angelsy1975]

I know from reading the comments that this isn't the original video (if there was anything original to it), but man... whoever came up with this selection did the song right. That's all I can say.

[@KenoshiAkai]

Okay, the animation from this video is from a Russian animated short called "The Glass Harmonica" from 1968.

[@janemillerick9614]

excellent work. (another thing that seems underrated or just not well enough known; Russian avantgarde.)

[@williamk3702]

thanks

[@darganx]

Looks like something Terry Gilliam would have done.

[@johnthrelfall5]

Thankyou Patrick Bright , it's like it was made for the song!

[@froundfroude8654]

Patrick Bright by Sergey Krzhanovsky?

[@mc2mc277]

Great video. thanks!

[@peterbaker8369]

Gosh. Astonishing artwork manipulation and animation. Love this track as well. Well done. PH were so under-rated.

[@fredc.dobbsakarikdalton4616]

Saw them in “74” in Charleston, Illinois... Peter Frampton was the back up/ Gary Brooker and band played The exotic birds and fruit album and of course “whiter Shade of pale”

[@bigalb1913]

Absolute stand-out track from the album. Great vocals, superb musicianship and for me, that guitar crescendo is something else. Just looked at the lyrics posted below and how prophetic they are in the week after Brexit!!!

[@cityzen2717]

Feet of clay and hair coloured a sick shade of orange with a side of paranoid perversion.

[@themadcap1898]

city zen Donnie?

[@darganx]

This is dedicated to Johnson and Trump.

[@thechino]

The guilty underachiever in me definitely appreciates this one.

[@briandelion49]

Love it!! Fantastic interpretation. Captures the mood perfectly for me. Make more!

[@serz1971]

Анимация и музыка - блеск.

[@lorenasilvanapasquetti2906]

Splendida canzone come il video. La voce di Gary e' superlativa. Insomma tutto super!

[@manumoka]

amazing animation (fabulous song of course)

[@carelopes]

stunning

[@kkkk6996]

wonderful music & art.

[@АлексейПоляков-в1щ]

Видео ряд интересный, а музыка классно из детства из юности......

[@ploddolp]

fantastic!

[@KenoshiAkai]

Love this song. I wonder where the animation came from....so very beautiful and strange.

[@briguyhackins]

Great Hammond sound

[@marceloinustroza5795]

Played by Chris Copping...of course...

[@ashnoyatrushanyan6599]

An absolutely sweetest song!!!!!

[@faddy24]

The diamond in the dark corner of the closet.

[@karelnovak9282]

Fantastic song:) I don´t know why but it always makes me remember The Fionavar Tapestry (though the lyrics aren´t and simply can´t be related to it:) Strange...

[@eee-eee-clap-clap2367]

If I ever covered this song...I'd make this a slam toward "American Idol"....

[@ramanahuja20006]

Oh the idol, oh the idol They knew the monster's every trick They knew his secrets every stitch All of it had been a game Nothing but a charlatan Perhaps there was a chance of coming through It even seemed that he might think it too But he could see no point in diving in He knew that he would neither sink nor swim And so they found he'd nothing left to say Just another idol turned to clay It seemed to them he must know what to do They knew that only he could pull them through They thought that he would make a plan He'd work it out, he'd understand Like drowning men they clutched at every straw They knew that he had saved them all before But he could see no point in diving in He knew that he would neither sink nor swim

[@themadcap1898]

Varun Arora Thanks

[@BabbaZee1111]

I love the animation it is perfect

[@kronlof2]

Gonna have to ask them to play this one when I see them 11/12/10

[@dariuszreda3291]

Cudo wsrod Progresiv Rock a

[@kippwieland6464]

Definitely NOT AI. No, these people put in their 10,000 + hours. Nobody respects a robot and never will.

[@psyclonought22]

very surreal video

[@petermakieg4921]

Awsome😃

[@toyntanen]

There can be something deeply frustrating about Procal at times (the obvious clasics aside) - and this is one of those times. I can hear where it should go, but it never does quite go there!

[@Stigggs]

The song simply needed an ending instead of a fade-out.

[@keithpittell3944]

... never goes where, mate..?? It's perfect... I've seen them do this in the old days and it was thrilling for the whole audience... Procol Harum takes u somewhere... shows u their vision... this song is their vision...

[@keithpittell3944]

... live they do have an ending... this is a record... fade-out is more effective for it's mysterious, foreboding sound on a recording... IMO...

[@gmsingh100]

Usually when I hear stuff like this it's from people that don't realize Gary Brooker does an amazing job of showcasing some of the best lyrics in the history of rock music. This song is kind of a continuation of "Conquistador" and a couple of others that are about the huge disappointment we can see in our heroes and idols.

[@terrycoles5606]

Does anyone know the name of the graphic artist? Brilliant carry on gary!!!

[@msmaupin]

Who did these animations? It's fantastic!

[@LElayneSousaFHorn]

The animations are a part of a film called "The Glass Harmonica" in 1968. It was banned in the Soviet Union until the perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union.

[@PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE]

Let's put google plus through it's paces. And oh ya, This tune's old and rocks just like, well,...., "THE IDOL"

[@PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE]

Back to the top of the infinite scroll, look up my child.

[@yepheth]

wow! that video is full of real mastepieces ripped off

[@psyclonought22]

didnt realise it was duhrer homolgue didnt take long though

[@antoniomelillo6274]

good

[@vadVS1964]

Animation The Glass Harmonica (Стеклянная гармоника, 1968) by Andrei Khrzhanovsky , kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp7Li4Zqnddlnbc ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC)

[@serz1971]

Русская анимация forever.

[@chippy783]

ironic. liars they lie so badly it's almost sympathy

[@salmaca191262]

what album is this from?

[@seenoevo3497]

Exotic Birds and Fruit.

[@evrif]

Зачем было разрушать прекрасную "Стеклянную гармонику" Хржановского - Шнитке ? (при том, что Procol Harum - моя любовь с 70-х годов ) Существование в одном темпоритме двух превосходных составляющих - музыкальной фактуры и визуальной ткани - недостаточно для создания гармоничного целого: слишком разнится их природа. Тем не менее, автору клипа респект за смелый, хотя и не очень продуманный эксперимент.

[@darganx]

Dedicated to Johnson and Trump.

[@MrSonorplayer]

👌

[@bennyhansen5605]

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