When Gary Brooker reappeared for the second half of Procol Harum’s recent Royal Festival Hall show, bandaged but unbowed after a stumble, it was almost a metaphor for the defiant way in which the ...
In the mid-1970s, Robin Trower easily filled the San Diego Sports Arena with cheering fans. At the time, he seemed to be channeling the ghost of Jimi Hendrix, with fiery wah-wah guitar solos and ...
This is an archival release by one of the celebrated prog outfits that is still relatively active, Procol Harum, that is remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, featuring fully restored artwork and ...
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 ...
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Cream songwriter Pete Brown wound up stepping in for Reid. Brooker chalked up Reid’s departure to the natural evolution of collaborators, even longtime ones, growing apart. “I haven’t seen Keith Reid ...
Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s' most enduring hits, "A Whiter Shade of Pale," has died. He was 76. The English rock band said Brooker died at his home on Saturday.
The London-born Brooker was singer and keyboard player with the band, which had a huge hit with its first single, "A Whiter Shade of Pale." By The Associated Press Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum ...
Singer-songwriter and pianist Gary Brooker, who fronted the English proto-prog band Procol Harum and co-wrote their 1967 hit “A Whiter Shade Of Pale,” has died of cancer, Rolling Stone reports. He was ...
LONDON (AP) — Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s’ most enduring hits, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” has died. He was 76. The English rock band said Brooker died at his home ...