Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 1966, Southend-based group The Paramounts split. They’d scored a hit single in 1964 with their version of Poison Ivy while ...

The contested origins of Procol Harum's "A White Shade of Pale" is a testament to its lyrical depth, according to the songwriter.

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Gary Brooker wrote and sang the band's biggest hit, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, who co-wrote and sang the band's biggest hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale," has died. He was ...

Keith Reid, who wrote the lyrics for "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and about 100 subsequent songs by the British band Procol Harum, died March 23 at a hospital in London. He was 76. The cause was colon ...

Keith Reid, founding member of Procol Harum and the songwriter behind the band’s biggest hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” has died. He was 76. Reid died on March 23, 2023, at a hospital in London, ...

According to the book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul heard Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” for the first time the night he met Linda and he was taken with its lyrics. “It was the ...

LONDON — Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s’ most enduring hits, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” has died. He was 76. The English rock band said Brooker died at his home on ...

Keith Reid, who cowrote the lyrics for most of Procol Harum’s original songs, died March 23 of cancer, his wife confirmed. No details on location were provided. Reid was a writer on Procol Harum’s ...

“His lyrics were one of a kind and helped to shape the music created by the band,” the English rock band said. Songwriter Keith Reid, the lyricist for the 1960s rock legends Procol Harum, who co-wrote ...

Keith Reid, lyricist for the British group Procol Harum and co-writer of the iconic 1960s hit “Whiter Shade of Pale,” died on March 23 after a battle with cancer, according to a post on the band’s ...