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“To keep a standard up so long is an achievement. This album crowns that. Now people can play something other than A Whiter Shade Of Pale!” Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last

When Procol Harum released 50th anniversary album Novum in 2017, vocalist Gary Brooker and lyricist Pete Brown made it clear they weren’t expecting it to be their last

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Gary Brooker brought back to life on unique version of A Whiter Shade of Pale on Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s charity record

New charity album ‘Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s’ contains a unique version of Procol Harum’s 1967 number one ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ along with Leo Sayer’s cover of The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ set to the music of Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’.

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“A Rolls Royce appeared to pick me up for Top Of The Pops. I asked who booked it; the driver said, ‘Your manager.’ We sacked him and I took the bus”: The convoluted story of Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade Of Pale

In May 1967, the band’s debut single changed the musical world. Nearly six decades later it’s developed a long and protracted legacy

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Elton John on the keyboard geniuses who blew his mind: ‘With Zoot, you were in for a party’

Why do Britain’s guitar heroes become household names – yet its piano and organ players don’t? Let’s end this injustice, writes Elton John, as he pays tribute to all those thrilling showmen eternally confined to the wings

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“The world was all smiling beat bands. We were moodier. We were serious about it”: The limitations and strange decisions of Procol Harum’s landmark debut album

Gary Brooker called it modern blues – but however you tag it, the proto-prog follow-up to blockbuster single A Whiter Shade Of Pale was everything he’d wanted it to be, almost

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“A Whiter Shade Of Pale hit people’s ears and rang some sort of bell… it’s always been a great mystery why it did that”: The life and times of Gary Brooker

Procol Harum singer’s first-ever song was one of the biggest hits imaginable, but he enjoyed many more career highs with and without the band that made his name

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Watch Procol Harum play a majestic version of A Whiter Shade Of Pale in the Biba Department Store in London in 1973

The Midnight Special has delivered the goods again

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“As boldly baroque as anything The Moody Blues or The Nice had at that point constructed… but perhaps it hasn’t aged gracefully”: Procul Harum’s vinyl reissue of Shine On Brightly is still fascinating

Robin Trower’s dazzling contributions feel like they’re coming from another room on their second album, as they try to work out who they are

Louder

Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale

More than half a century ago Procol Harum recorded the unlikeliest, best-selling, most bitterly-contested drug anthem of all time

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Procul Harum lyricist Keith Reid dies after battling cancer for two years

The 76-year-old wrote the words for the classic chart-topper A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Wales Online

Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid dead at 76

The death of Keith Reid, who co-wrote Procol Harum's classic A Whiter Shade Of Pale, has been confirmed by the band

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Keith Reid, lyricist for Procol Harum, dies aged 76

Songwriter behind psychedelic 1960s masterpiece A Whiter Shade of Pale had been receiving cancer treatment for two years

The Guardian - UK

Gary Brooker obituary

Procol Harum singer and songwriter best known for the 60s single A Whiter Shade of Pale

The Guardian - UK

With A Whiter Shade of Pale, Gary Brooker accelerated pop’s future at warp-speed

Recorded in 1967 and instantly acknowledged as a classic, Procol Harum’s strange masterpiece was an unrepeatable piece of popular magic

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Gary Brooker, frontman of rock band Procol Harum, dies at 76

Gary Brooker of the English rock band Procol Harum has died at age 76

Tribune News Service

Procol Harem frontman Gary Brooker, who co-wrote Summer of Love anthem ‘Whiter Shade of Pale,’ dies at age 76

Gary Brooker, whose “Whiter Shade of Pale” launched the Summer of Love in 1967, has died, his bandmates in Procol Harem announced Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gary Brooker, lead singer of prog-rockers Procol Harum, dies at 76

In 2018, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the band’s ballad "A Whiter Shade of Pale" — which has spawned more than 1,000 cover versions — into its Singles category.

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Procol Harum singer Gary Brooker dies at 76

He was best known for A Whiter Shade of Pale

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The Independent UK

Gary Brooker death: Procol Harum frontman dies aged 76

Brooker co-wrote the quintessential song ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’

The Independent UK

Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker dies aged 76

The psychedelic rock band were best known for the 1967 hit single A Whiter Shade Of Pale.

Daily Mirror

Gary Brooker dead: Procol Harum frontman who sang A Whiter Shade of Pale dies at 76

Singer Gary Brooker, well known for singing Procol Harum's 1967 classic A Whiter Shade of Pale has sadly died at the age of 76

The Guardian - UK

Gary Brooker, lead singer of English band Procol Harum, dies, aged 76

Band pays tribute to musician ‘notable for his individuality, integrity, and occasionally stubborn eccentricity’

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