Singer-songwriter Gary Brooker, best known for the 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale" as part of British rock band Procol Harum, has died at the age of 76, his representative confirmed to CNN ...

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 ...

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"Ninety-nine out of 100 of those Procol Harum songs were written the words first and then were set to music," recalled Keith Reid.

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, ...

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 February 19 of ...

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 ...

LONDON — The lead singer of British band Procol Harum is appealing a judgment awarding the group’s former organist 40% of the royalties from their iconic hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Gary Brooker ...

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Gary Brooker, best known for the 1967 single “A Whiter Shade of Pale” as part of British rock band Procol Harum, has died at the age of 76, his representative confirmed to CNN ...

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 ...