While there's a handful of '60s hits that are still getting plenty of radio play, not every song from the era kept making waves despite having initial popularity. Procol Harum's 1967 song "A Whiter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a song with almost incomprehensible lyrics, it's been the subject of drawn-out legal proceedings, and it's the most played ...

Several months after releasing their highest-charting hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” which went to No. 5 in the U.S., Procol Harum had more movement in the UK, peaking at No. 6 with their second single ...

"His lyrics were one of a kind and helped to shape the music created by the band," Procol Harum said in a statement. By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital Director, West Coast Songwriter Keith Reid — ...

Debuts don't come much more auspicious than "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." By Gary Graff Debut singles don’t come much more auspicious than Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.” Released 50 years ago ...

Paul McCartney wrote countless love songs for people all over the world to call their “special song” with their significant other, and in the late 1960s, Procol Harum returned the favor with their ...

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 ...

Gary Brooker, the singer who put '60s British rock group Procol Harum on the map with an iconic hit of the 'Summer of Love,' is skipping the light fandango in heaven now. Gary died Saturday after ...

Billy Joel paid tribute to Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker, who died Feb. 19 at the age of 76, with a rendition of the band’s classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” a song that Joel has frequently praised (and ...

While there's a handful of '60s hits that are still getting plenty of radio play, not every song from the era kept making waves despite having initial popularity. For instance, the publication Far Out ...

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 ...

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 ...