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This led Brooker into a partnership with lyricist Keith Reid b. By the spring of , they had a considerable body of songs prepared and began looking for a band to play them. June 28, , London on bass, and Bobby Harrison b. June 28, , London on drums. By the time this recording was ready for release, the Pinewoods had been rechristened Procol Harum, a name derived, as alternate stories tell it, either from Stevens' cat's birth certificate, Procol Harun, or the Latin "procul" for "far from these things" hey, it was the mid-'60s, and either is possible.
Ironically, Cordell's one-time clients the Moody Blues were about to break out of a long commercial tail-spin on the very same label with a similar, classically-tinged pair of recordings, "Nights in White Satin" and "Days of Future Passed," and between the two groups and their breakthrough hits, Deram Records would be permanently characterized as a progressive rock imprint.
Cordell had also sent a copy of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" to Radio London, one of England's legendary off-shore pirate radio stations they competed with the staid BBC, which had the official broadcast monopoly, and were infinitely more beloved by the teenagers and most bands , which played the record.
Not only was Radio London deluged with listener requests for more plays, but Deram suddenly found itself with orders for a record not scheduled for release for another month -- before May was half over, it was pushed up on the schedule and rushed into shops. Four days later, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" reached the top of the British charts for the first of a six-week run in the top spot, making Procol Harum only the sixth recording act in the history of British popular music to reach the number one spot on its first release not even the Beatles did that.
The following month, the record reached number five on the American charts, with sales in the United States rising to over a million copies and six million copies worldwide. All of this seemed to bode well for the band, except for the fact that it had only a single song in its repertory and no real stage act -- literal one-hit wonders.
Wilson on guitar and drums, respectively. The "real" Procol Harum band was now in place and a second single, "Homburg," was duly recorded. The group's debut album, entitled Procol Harum, managed to reach number 47 in America during October of , based on "A Whiter Shade of Pale" being among its tracks which included the first version of "Conquistador" -- but a British version of the LP, issued over there without the hit, failed to attract any significant sales.
The single "Homburg," however, got no higher than number 34 in America a month later. The group's newest single, "Quite Rightly So," however, only reached the number 50 spot in England in April of that year. The next month, they were playing the Miami Pop Festival in front of , people, on a bill that included Chuck Berry, Canned Heat, the blues version of Fleetwood Mac, and the Turtles, among others.
In March of , David Knights and Matthew Fisher exited the lineup shortly after finishing work on the group's new album, A Salty Dog, preferring management and production to the performing side of the music business.
Knights' departure opened the way for bassist Chris Copping to join Procol Harum thus re-creating the lineup of the Paramounts , playing bass and organ. This record, considered by many to be the original group's best work, combined high-energy blues and classical influences on a grand scale, and returned the band to the U. The album subsequently reached number 27 in England, the group's first long-player to chart in their own country.
Matthew Fisher's stately, cathedral-like organ had been a seminal part of the band's sound, juxtaposed with Trower's blues-based riffing and Reid's unusual, darkly witty lyrics as voiced by Brooker. Following Fisher's departure, the group took on a more straightforward rock sound, but Trower's playing remained a major attraction to the majority of fans.
And being soaked in Reid's dark, eerie, regret-filled lyrics didn't stop "A Salty Dog" from becoming one of the group's most popular songs. It was a year before their next album, Home, was released, in June of , ascending to the American number 34 and the British 49 spot.
Broken Barricades reached number 32 in America and 41 in England, but it also marked the departure of Robin Trower. The founding guitarist left that month and subsequently organized his own group, with a sound modeled along lines similar to Jimi Hendrix, which had great success in America throughout the s. Trower's replacement, Dave Ball b. The group returned to something of the sound it had before Fisher's departure, although Trower was a tough act to follow.
It was this version of the band that performed on August 6, in a concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the DaCamera Singers in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- the concert was a bold and expansive, richly orchestrated re-consideration of earlier material though not "A Whiter Shade of Pale" from the group's repertory, and, released as an official live album in , proved to be the group's most successful LP release, peaking at number five and drawing in thousands of new fans.
A single lifted from the live record, "Conquistador," redone in a rich and dramatic version, shot to number 16 in America and 22 in England that summer. Soon after, the U. The band's next album, Grand Hotel, was a delightfully melodic and decadent collection anticipating Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music in some respects that featured guest backing vocals by Christianne Legrand of the a cappella singing group the Swingle Singers.
That record, their first released on Chrysalis in America as well as England, peaked at number July of saw a departure and a lateral shift in the group's lineup, as Alan Cartwright left the band and Chris Copping took over on bass, while Pete Solley joined as keyboard player. By this time, the band's string had run out, as everyone seemed to know. A new album, Something Magic, barely scraped the U. Only five months later, the band was back together for a one-off performance of "A Whiter Shade of Pale," which had taken on a life of its own separate from the group -- the song was named joint winner along with "Bohemian Rhapsody" of the Best British Pop Single , at the Britannia Awards to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, and the band performed it live at the awards ceremony.
Apart from Trower, Gary Brooker was the most successful and visible of all ex-Procol Harum members, releasing three solo albums between and During the late '80s, however, Brooker had turned to writing orchestral music, principally ballet material, but this didn't stop him from turning up as a guest at one of the annual Fairport Convention reunions Procol Harum and Fairport had played some important early gigs together at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, in August of to sing "A Whiter Shade of Pale.
The death of B. Wilson in went largely unreported, to the chagrin of many fans, and it seemed as though the group was a closed book. An album, Prodigal Stranger, was recorded and released, and an city tour of North America took place in September of Although this lineup didn't last -- Trower and company, after all, were pushing 50 at the time -- Brooker has kept a new version of Procol Harum together, in the guise of himself, guitarist Geoffrey Whitehorn, keyboardman Don Snow, and Brzezicki on drums, which toured the United States in Year: Tracks: 3 Bitrate: MP3 Missing Persons Alive Forever.
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