Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is a song by the English rock band Procol Harum that was issued as their debut record on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks. [ 10 ]
"Homburg" is a song by the English rock band Procol Harum, released as the follow-up single to their initial 1967 hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Written by pianist Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid, "Homburg" reached number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, [1] number 15 in Canada, and number 34 in the United States. It went to number one in several ...
Procol Harum (/ ˈ p r oʊ k əl ˈ h ɑː r əm /) were an English rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, in 1967.Their best-known recording is the 1967 hit single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", one of the few singles to have sold more than 10 million copies. [4]
Gary Brooker, the frontman for Procol Harum, the long-running band most famous for 1967’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died Saturday at age 76. The cause of death was cancer. The surviving ...
Live at the Union Chapel is the second live album by Procol Harum, released in 2004.. It was the last Procol Harum album to feature Matthew Fisher on organ and the only time Procol Harum recorded "A Whiter Shade of Pale" with 3 verses (previous albums and single releases only contained 2 verses).
Trip the light fantastic has some info about the quite enigmatic beginning of those lyrics. I think there should be some here, too, or at least a wiki link. --84.114.185.2 23:20, 27 June 2019 (UTC) The "shade of pale" is also a description given of the Miller getting progressively drunk:
Procol Harum is the debut studio album by English rock band Procol Harum.It was released in September 1967 by record label Deram in the US, following their breakthrough and immensely popular single "A Whiter Shade of Pale".
Matthew Charles Fisher (born 7 March 1946) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his longtime association with the rock band Procol Harum, which included playing the Hammond organ on the 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", for which he subsequently won a songwriting credit.