Rolling Stone ranked “A Whiter Shade of Pale” one of the greatest songs of all time. Describing the song as “a somber hymn supported by an organ theme straight out of Bach... Procol Harum’s 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' was unlike anything else on the radio in 1967.”
Not only is it one of the commercially successful singles in history, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, “A Whiter Shade of Pale” has been covered by more than 1,000 artists over the years, per American songwriter.
“I had the phrase ‘a whiter shade of pale.’ That was the start, and I knew it was a song,” he shared in the interview. “It’s like a jigsaw where you’ve got one piece, then you make up all the others to fit in. I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene…I wasn’t trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative.”
Amazingly, the hit single did not appear on Procol Harum’s debut album when it was originally released in the UK in 1967.
“I think anybody would be happy to have such a success,” he said of the band’s No. 1 UK and sole U.S. Top 10 single.
A live version of the song was released 40 years later
The music website The Music Man noted, “Procol Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ is said by many to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written, but when the band played it alongside the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir, it somehow became even more powerful.”
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