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"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 ]
In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir, by Procol Harum, is a live album released 2009.It was recorded in Ledreborg Castle in Denmark.. This album is also noteworthy because it contains a song that Procol Harum have never released before - "Symphathy [sic] for the Hard of Hearing".
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]
In 1966, Brooker founded Procol Harum with his friend Keith Reid. [10] "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the worldwide hit for which Procol Harum is best known, but Brooker's melancholic vocals and emotive, eclectic piano playing were a key part of the band's musical mix. [11]
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 ...
Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman whose soaring vocals on the band’s 1967 proto-prog rock classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale” helped make the song a mainstay of 1970s FM radio, died ...
Gary Brooker, whose “Whiter Shade of Pale” launched the Summer of Love in 1967, has died, his bandmates in Procol Harum announced Tuesday. He was 76.
Two lineups of Procol Harum onstage in 1970, 2001 and 2018. Procol Harum were an English progressive rock band from Southend-on-Sea. Formed in April 1967, the group originally consisted of vocalist and pianist Gary Brooker, guitarist Ray Royer, bassist David Knights, keyboardist Matthew Fisher, drummer Bobby Harrison and lyricist Keith Reid. The band went through a number of lineup changes ...