Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) RIP

[felser]

He was the voice you know from "A Whiter Shade of Pale", a truly transcendant event in pop music history.   And there was much more worthwhile from Procol Harum beyond that song.  He was 76, passed on Saturday.

[Milestones]

R.I.P, Mr. Brooker. 

I never followed the group much, though I liked what I heard.   I hadn't realized "Whiter Shade" went that far back--around the time of Sgt. Pepper.

 

[T.D.]

R.I.P.

Also liked what I heard. I caught an interesting (though short) radio program about Procol Harum a year or so ago, including some interview segments with Gary Brooker.  "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was the subject of a significant litigation and award [which the program discussed and I hadn't known].

[JSngry]

Was Bach suing?

[T.D.]

An organist, but not J. S.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jul/30/lords-ruling-whiter-shade-pale

[JSngry]

15 minutes ago, T.D. said:

An organist, but not J. S.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jul/30/lords-ruling-whiter-shade-pale

Not sure I get the logic of that one.

Always good to see people getting paid, but still...

[Milestones]

Anyone with even a slight knowledge of old J.S. can hear the "borrowing."

 

[felser]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Not sure I get the logic of that one.

I don't either.   Matthew Fisher playing a Bach riff on a Brooker-Reid composition.  How does that rate a composer credit?   Does Al Kooper (who snuck into the session and wasn't even supposed to be playing on the cut) now get composer co-credit on "Like a Rolling Stone" for his organ part?  Does Gene Frenkle get composer co-credit on "Don't Fear the Reaper"?