The familiar adage, oft-repeated by musicians who have had hits and those who long for one, says that if anyone knew what exactly constituted a hit single, that formula could be repeated every time.

Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman whose soaring vocals on the band’s 1967 proto-prog rock classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale” helped make the song a mainstay of 1970s FM radio, died February 19 of ...

A mournful lament with a teasing – even disturbing – lyric masquerading as a feel-good summer love song, AWSOP (as it is known by its devotees) was a conundrum from day one. Clearly inspired by other ...

Earlier this year, Mike Milosh released Blood, his sophomore album under the moniker of Rhye. It was the long-awaited follow-up to the project’s 2013 debut Woman, and immediately announced itself as ...

Keith Reid, founding member of Procol Harum and the songwriter behind the band’s biggest hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” has died. He was 76. Reid died on March 23, 2023, at a hospital in London, ...

LONDON – Two former 1960s rock stars appeared before a music-loving judge Monday for a showdown over authorship of one of the decade's most iconic songs. The organ strains of Procol Harum's "A Whiter ...

LONDON — The lead singer of British band Procol Harum is appealing a judgment awarding the group’s former organist 40% of the royalties from their iconic hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Gary Brooker ...

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 ...