Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ is a 1967 song from Procol Harum, credited to Gary Brooker, Keith Reid & Matthew Fisher. It has classical influences, as noted by its structural similarity to JS Bach’s ‘Air on the G String’. There are 2 other (rarely heard) versus to this song; however the original 2 verse version is already around 4 mins long, so this would probably make the long version problematic for radio airplay. At 74, Gary Brooker is still belting out this song in its original key of C Major; he is one of the great rock/blues voices, and no one can really sing this in the same soulful way that he does.
‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ is a 1967 song from Procol Harum, credited to Gary Brooker, Keith Reid & Matthew Fisher. It has classical influences, as noted by its structural similarity to JS Bach’s ‘Air on the G String’. There are 2 other (rarely heard) versus to this song; however the original 2 verse version is already around 4 mins long, so this would probably make the long version problematic for radio airplay. At 74, Gary Brooker is still belting out this song in its original key of C Major; he is one of the great rock/blues voices, and no one can really sing this in the same soulful way that he does.
