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Gary Brooker, lead singer of English band Procol Harum, dies, aged 76.
The Guardian ^ | 2.22.22 | Harriet Sherwood

Posted on 02/22/2022 9:04:38 AM PST by Carriage Hill

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To: carriage_hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM


21 posted on 02/22/2022 9:16:08 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Also made a brief appearance in the movie “Evita” during “The Rainbow Tour”.


22 posted on 02/22/2022 9:17:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: carriage_hill

Oh damn, we are all getting old fast.

RIP Gary Brooker


23 posted on 02/22/2022 9:17:48 AM PST by The Mayor (“Love the Lord your God,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37–39))
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To: Rummyfan

Well said.
It was perhaps the greatest of all-time, IMO.


24 posted on 02/22/2022 9:18:00 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

I just heard “Conquistador” on the radio station the other day. Great song.


25 posted on 02/22/2022 9:18:51 AM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
“Trower endures.”

So underrated. “Bridge of Sighs” is one of my top 5 favorite albums ever.

26 posted on 02/22/2022 9:20:53 AM PST by circlecity
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To: carriage_hill

Saw them live back in the 70’s, Uriah Heep was the opening act IIRC.


27 posted on 02/22/2022 9:21:53 AM PST by dainbramaged (Use it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without.)
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To: gloryblaze

Here’s a bunch of skating routines to it:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=skating+to+”whiter+shade+of+pale”


28 posted on 02/22/2022 9:21:58 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Trower endures.

A guitar virtuoso. Bridge of Sighs still works.

29 posted on 02/22/2022 9:22:40 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Well trower is still alive and playing and hanging on


30 posted on 02/22/2022 9:23:42 AM PST by plain talk
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To: dainbramaged

Uriah Heep was the second band I ever saw live just a month or so after The Guess Who.

L


31 posted on 02/22/2022 9:23:50 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: carriage_hill
Procol Harum (/ˈproʊkəl ˈhɑːrəm/) are an English rock band formed in 1967. Their best-known recording is the 1967 hit single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies.[4]

Ten million copies?! That's not bad.

32 posted on 02/22/2022 9:26:29 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: carriage_hill

A Salty Dog.


33 posted on 02/22/2022 9:27:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Noumenon

Mine too.

“A Salty Dog”

‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry
‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’
Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly?
A twisted path, our tortured course, and no one left alive
We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships come home to die
No lofty peak, nor fortress bold, could match our captain’s eye
Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call
A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all
We fired the gun, and burnt the mast, and rowed from ship to shore
The captain cried, we sailors wept: our tears were tears of joy
Now many moons and many Junes have passed since we made land
A salty dog, this seaman’s log: your witness my own hand


34 posted on 02/22/2022 9:29:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: carriage_hill

I’ll be danged! Thank you kindly.


35 posted on 02/22/2022 9:31:02 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: carriage_hill

Thanks for posting. Another great memory.


36 posted on 02/22/2022 9:31:35 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: carriage_hill
Wow, just saw him and his band in a little bar in NYC about 3 years ago. Voice was as beautiful as ever. I recorded a couple of videos.

Whiter Shade of Pale

37 posted on 02/22/2022 9:32:14 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: carriage_hill

Bring another tray... I miss those days. The days before ‘craft’ beer when you ordered a tray of draught and it wasn’t this type, or that type... It was only one type. The type that came out of a no-name keg.


38 posted on 02/22/2022 9:33:58 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: carriage_hill

My fav PH song and version

“Conquistador” - LIVE with Danish orchestra - 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-zti_qAHsA


39 posted on 02/22/2022 9:37:32 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: carriage_hill

In 1992 my daughter was born while Whiter Shade of Pale was playing on the boom box in the delivery room.


40 posted on 02/22/2022 9:39:24 AM PST by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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