YMMV / Procol Harum

• Awesome Music: A lot of fans would pick the first three albums, probably along with a lot of the stuff on Broken Barricades.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Their popularity in the United Kingdom faded quickly after their first single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", and from then on they toured mostly in the United States (in the late 1960s) and continental Europe (from the 1970s onward).
• Tear Jerker:
  • A good number of them, but the saddest has to go to "In Held 'Twas in I", about a man realizing, far too late, that he has wasted his life.
  • "A Whiter Shade of Pale", which was used to great effect in Ken Burns' documentary about The Vietnam War.
  • "For Liquorice John", a track from Grand Hotel. It's a melancholy tribute to Dave Mundy, a devoted fan of the pre-Procol mid-60s band The Paramounts, which he'd hoped to rename Liquorice John Death and His All Stars. Mundy committed suicide shortly before the album was recorded. (On a related note, Procol actually released a Cover Album as Liquorice John Death and His All Stars in 1997.)

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