Gary Brooker didn’t want Procol Harum’s 50th anniversary album to be an exercise in nostalgia, so he brought as many new elements to bear on the project as he could – and the results surprised and ...

Reid found the title of the song after overhearing someone use the phrase at a party when he heard a woman say “You’ve turned a whiter shade of pale,” and it remained the band’s biggest hit, topping ...

Gary Brooker isn't sure if "A Whiter Shade of Pale" will last forever, but he's willing to stick around a while longer to try and find out. "When I'm 90, then I'll start to believe it," Brooker said ...

Producer Guy Stevens (Mott The Hoople, The Clash) is the sort of character rock ‘n’ roll mythology offers up. In fact, his sense of music and management led to the pairing of lyricist Keith Reid and ...

It’s a song with almost incomprehensible lyrics, it’s been the subject of drawn-out legal proceedings, and it’s the most played record by British broadcasters over the past six decades. “Keith had ...