A conversation overheard at a party helped Keith Reid compose Procol Harum's signature record, which went on to sell over 10 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The voice behind the 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale” has died. Gary Brooker, frontman for British prog-rockers Procol Harum, died at his home following a battle with cancer on Feb. 19, according ...