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WHITER SHADE OF PALE: PROCOL HARUM SONGWRITER HAS DIED
Slipped Disc ^
| March 30, 2023
| Norman Lebrecht
Posted on 03/30/2023 8:04:45 AM PDT by nwrep
The death has been announced today of Keith Reid, the lyricist of every original song recorded by Procol Harum.
Keith was 76.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJxpKlTID2Q&t=3s
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:04:45 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: nwrep
We skipped the light fandago, and turned cartwheels across the floor.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:06:18 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: nwrep
HATED that morose song. I would shut it off as soon as I heard the organ intro.
To: nwrep
Any relation to Boko Haram?
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:07:33 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: BobL
Brothers from the same mother.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:08:28 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: nwrep
I liked the song, but never did understand it.
To: Kaiser8408a
I always appreciated the lyrics, but I agree with you about the song over all.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:20:17 AM PDT
by
cld51860
(We’re doomed.)
To: JonPreston
Some years ago a NYC radio DJ told an interesting anecdote about this song. Back in the days when John Lennon lived in New York, the DJ said he would occasionally see Lennon driving around the city in his classic Bentley. And
every time he saw the car, he could hear this song playing on the stereo.
The DJ said he was convinced that Lennon went to his grave wishing he had written “A Whiter Shade of Pale.”
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:20:21 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
To: nwrep
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:25:34 AM PDT
by
Irenic
To: nwrep
“WSoP” might be my all-time favorite song.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:25:44 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: JonPreston
Supposedly it’s about a guy getting very drunk and carelessly getting sexually involved with a girl and her physical response to her feelings of deep remorse...
....and so it was that later ..as the miller told his tale,
that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale...
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:25:57 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
To: nwrep
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:34:19 AM PDT
by
Babba Gi
To: Kaiser8408a
I guess you also hate Stairway to Heaven and the 1000 other older Rock songs with “morose” content.
To: nwrep
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:45:17 AM PDT
by
hercuroc
To: Irenic
To: COSIllinois
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:48:04 AM PDT
by
Irenic
To: Irenic
Great slow dance in College, RIP...
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:52:07 AM PDT
by
Shady
(The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
To: Kaiser8408a
The music for A Whiter Shade of Pale was lifted straight from a piece by JS Bach.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
Pelham
(Joe Biden, Brain of the American Left)
To: Irenic
“A Salty Dog” is a great album.. I may have toi listen to that in the car today.
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:52:53 AM PDT
by
Shady
(The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
To: Pelham
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posted on
03/30/2023 8:53:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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