A Whiter Shade of Pale

[Pabs]

It's sad when some old rockers come together for the wrong reasons,but you would think in 2006-2007 this type of stuff would be all sorted out by now.

Procol Harum star looks back with regret


· Band's former organist rues his membership
· Legal bill for royalties case 'deterred earlier suit'

Duncan Campbell
Wednesday November 15, 2006
The Guardian

The musician who played the opening bars of the Procol Harum hit A Whiter Shade of Pale said yesterday that if he could "go back in a time machine" to 1967 he would have joined a different band.

"Here is a song which is going to go down in history which ought to have my name on it and it doesn't," Matthew Fisher, 60, who played the organ with Procol Harum from 1967 to 1969, told the high court on the second day of a hearing into his claim to be credited as a co-author of the song.

Yeah I know I am showing my age,But what a fantastic song this was

[z900/zx9]

He was probably stoned when he sighned the band contract and only just straightened up

[Neka79]

never heard of it...what a load of crap..

[bonester]

I think that Whiter Shade of Pale is one of the best songs of all time. White guys sounding black too. Not bad for an almost one hit wonder. Organists claims sound dodgy from what I have read on the net.