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ROCK legend Gary Brooker of band Procol Harum has died age 76. Here’s what we know about the band’s usual name. The group named their ban Procol Harum after a friend’s cat. The correct translation ...

Gary Brooker, lead singer of Procol Harum, is appealing a court judgment that awarded royalties from the group's hit A Whiter Shade of Pale to a former organist. Matthew Fisher, 60, sued Brooker and ...

The former organist for Procol Harum has won a 40 per cent share of the copyright to the rock group's 1967 hit song A Whiter Shade of Pale. Matthew Fisher's "contribution to the overall work was on ...

Fifty years into a legendary career, most bands are content to rest on their hits, releasing bland blues covers albums or bored-yet-pleasant regurgitations of their earliest work. Procol Harum is not ...

Fifty years ago this spring, a then unknown British rock group called Procol Harum released its very first single, “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.” The distinctive recording went to No. 1 in the United ...

Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, who led the band throughout their 55-year history and co-wrote and sang their 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home from cancer on Saturday, Feb.

April 15, 2009 • Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has just been named Britain's most-played song in public places over the past 75 years. The song's evocative organ melody lives on in music ...