... Brooker's stately melody supports Reid's gorgeously decadent lyrics, and as with Liza Minnelli's Cabaret the previous year, there was something louche and slightly illicit about what Procol was promising here. Elsewhere, the poignant For Liquorice John, the wry A Souvenir of London (a single that was banned by the BBC as it concerned catching an STD, albeit none too obviously) and the
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