Rappers React To Procol Harum "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"!!!

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• KI

  @kimlouise-rf5rr · 2 years ago

  Gary &amp; my husband were friends from junior school. &nbsp;Throughout his career, Gary remained a Gentleman and stayed humble to the end.<br>You have just listened to a masterclass 👏

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• JE

  @JeffHopkins76 · 2 years ago

  one of the songs that helped us keep alive and sane while in Vietnam in 1967.

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• TH

  @thegroovetube3247 · 2 years ago

  The most played song on UK radio in the 20th Century wasn&apos;t by the Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones etc., it was this song.

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• VS

  @vsmicer · 2 years ago

  Gary Brooker was my friend for forty years (I was a session player) and he was a lovely, lovely man I still miss terribly he died 2 years ago. &apos;Procol Harum&apos; was taken from the name of a friend&apos;s Burmese Blue cat. &nbsp;The band was made up of session players and aspiring songwriter Gary that gelled, their line up coming together in 1967. &apos;A whiter shade of Pale&apos; was their first single, and a massive, massive world wide hit. It was John Lennon&apos;s favourite song and to this day, Peter Frampton and Paul Simon both describe it as &apos;the most complete single record ever&apos;. They would go on to have more hits and release plenty of albums, but this was their magnificent opener. All of Procul Harum&apos;s members would appear on many friend&apos;s albums (once a session player...) including those of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and many more.<br>Lastly, Gary was a highly talented multi-instrumentalist and would over time, teach himself how to arrange and orchestrate - and this version here, from 2006, is finally how he hard it in his head in 1967, but could not write it that way (the record company would not have recorded it that way, either), so this was the wheel coming full circle. Oh yes...most Danes are multilingual, they would have easily understood him.

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• NT

  @Nthldn · 1 year ago (edited)

  The fact you didn’t pause it once and just soaked the genius of this in, makes me so happy ❤

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• RA

  @Ray1969. · 2 years ago

  One of only 46 singles in the history of music that has sold over 10 million copies. Gary Brooker RIP had a voice that aged like fine wine.

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• MI

  @michaelavery6390 · 2 years ago

  This song was released in 1967 and it reached no1 in the UK charts for six weeks and no5 in the US Billboard Hot 100.<br>It has sold over 10 million copies world wide and 1000 people or more have covered this song.<br>The version that you are watching now is with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir. <br>Gary Brooker the lead singer passed away in 2022 aged 76 R.I.P

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• AR

  @ArtieFufkinPolymerRecords · 2 years ago

  Well done guys, you realised you were watching greatness and didn&apos;t pause the track once! An absolute masterpiece of a song, there haven&apos;t been many better. Gary was 61 at the time of this performance yet his voice sounds as good as it did when he recorded it at the age of 22.

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• LB

  @LB-my1ej · 2 years ago (edited)

  A gentleman all his life. RIP Gary

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• TH

  @TheCornishCockney · 2 years ago

  They played in Denmark because they were invited.<br>Procol Harum was an English band who were at their height in ‘67 and the summer of love.<br>This tune was everywhere,certainly in the UK.<br>Conquistador by them is my favourite though.<br>RIP Gary Brooker.

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• RI

  @rickb.4168 · 2 years ago

  You can now do Knights in White Satin by The Moody Blues.

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• MA

  @markhagerman1837 · 2 years ago

  I’ve watched the video of this performance probably 100 times. Still gives me chills. It is spectacular.

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