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has title
  • A Whiter Shade Of Pale
has format
  • CD single
  • Gramophone record
has language
  • eng
Subject
  • Number-one singles in New Zealand
  • Counterculture of the 1960s
  • Number-one singles in Australia
  • Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
  • Number-one singles in Germany
  • 1960s ballads
  • 1967 singles
  • 1967 songs
  • 1995 singles
  • Deram Records singles
  • Number-one debut singles
  • Rock ballads
  • UK Singles Chart number-one singles
  • Popular songs based on classical works
  • Psychedelic rock songs
  • Brit Award for British Single
  • Songs with lyrics by Keith Reid
  • Song recordings produced by Stephen Lipson
  • Bonnie Tyler
  • Annie Lennox songs
  • Procol Harum songs
  • Shorty Long songs
  • Song recordings produced by Denny Cordell
  • Songs written by Gary Brooker
abstract
  • %22A Whiter Shade of Pale%22 is the debut single by the English rock band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967. The record reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June 1967, and stayed there for six weeks. Without much promotion, it reached No. 5 on the US charts. One of the counterculture anthems of the 1967 Summer of Love, it is one of fewer than 30 singles to have sold over 10 million copies worldwide.With its Bach-derived instrumental melody, soulful vocals, and unusual lyrics, written by the song's co-authors Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, and organist Matthew Fisher, %22A Whiter Shade of Pale%22 reached No. 1 in several countries when released in 1967. In the years since, it has become an enduring classic. As of 2009, it was the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the United Kingdom, and the UK performing rights group Phonographic Performance Limited in 2004 recognised it as the most-played record by British broadcasting of the past 70 years. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone placed %22A Whiter Shade of Pale%22 No. 57 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.In 1977, the song was named joint winner (along with Queen's %22Bohemian Rhapsody%22) of the Best British Pop Single 1952–1977 at the Brit Awards. In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. More than 1000 recorded cover versions by other artists are known. The song has been included in many music compilations over the decades and has also been used in the soundtracks of numerous films, including The Big Chill, Purple Haze, Breaking the Waves, The Boat That Rocked, Oblivion, and in Martin Scorsese's segment of New York Stories. Cover versions of the song have also been featured in many films, for example by King Curtis in Withnail and I and by Annie Lennox in The Net.The original writing credits were for Brooker and Reid only. On 30 July 2009, Matthew Fisher won co-writing credit for adding the organ parts to the original music in a unanimous ruling from the Law Lords.
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  • Matthew Fisher
  • Keith Reid
  • Gary Brooker
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  • 0000-00-00
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  • 5714dec525ac0d8aee399bd6
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