We seem to be witnessing a new wave of optimism lately. Happy, smiley faces of politicians doing chores, helping out, riding bikes, and marching in pride parades. The message is clear. The future ...

The White House is now home to umbrellas shipped from Mar-a-Lago that administration officials were quick to show off as the president's own playlist blared over the speakers during a recent tour.

A unique version of Procol Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ featuring late singer Gary Brooker is among the songs on new charity album ‘Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s’. The LP was put together by esteemed ...

In May 1967, the band’s debut single changed the musical world. Nearly six decades later it’s developed a long and protracted legacy When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

“It’s hard not to feel invisible as a Palestinian-American. Our trauma and pain feel unseen and ignored by both parties. One party uses our identity as a slur, and the other refuses to hear from us.” ...

Back in 1966, Southend-based group The Paramounts split. They’d scored a hit single in 1964 with their version of Poison Ivy while they were still all teenagers, but time was showing that was likely ...

At the height of the psychedelic movement, songs didn’t really have to mean anything anymore. For every great rock band with something to say about society or the fellowship of humanity, there were ...

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 ...

The first “simple story” Keith Reid gave to the world took some strange and wonderful turns. According to Beyond the Pale, Procol Harum’s rich, many-leveled website, “A Whiter Shade of Pale” sold more ...

KEITH Reid, who has died at the age of 76, was the co-founder and non-performing lyricist of Procol Harum, a highly-regarded British band whose best-known hit was A Whiter Shade of Pale, which topped ...