In 1973, Procol Harum released its seventh album, Grand Hotel. This was the same year Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon hit the record shops. Because of this, ...

Keith Reid, who cowrote the lyrics for most of Procol Harum’s original songs, died March 23 of cancer, his wife confirmed. No details on location were provided. Reid was a writer on Procol Harum’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

He went on to make three studio albums with Procol Harum: 1972’s Grand Hotel, which hit #21 on Billboard’s album charts, as well as 1974’s Exotic Birds and Fruit and 1975’s Procol’s Ninth (which ...

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Alan Cartwright, Procol Harum's bassist from 1971 to 1976, died on March 4 at age 75. The musician, born Oct. 10, 1945, first met Procol Harum singer-keyboardist Gary Brooker in 1966, having grown up ...

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