Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76

[Budi]

5. I read the story of how they came to write "Whiter Shade of Pale"

At a party one night it was observed, a girl having had way too much to drink, she turned "a whiter shade of pale".

The comment on that observation became the title to the song.

The song, immortalized in a generation's personal hall of fame, is still one of the best of a certain place in time.

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said "there is no reason"
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
Would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as well've been closed

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
And so it was that later

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