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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 22, 2022 13:57:49 GMT -5
Cancer took the life of Procul Harum founding member Gary Brooker on February 19. He was 76. Obituary |
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 22, 2022 14:45:56 GMT -5
Procol Harum recorded two memorable classics:"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (1967) & "Conquistador" (1972)-Sorry to hear of his passing.
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 22, 2022 23:54:01 GMT -5
February 19th is a bad day for rock stars to die over a span of 42 years (1980, 2009 & 2022) Bon Scott, Kelly Groucutt and now Gary Brooker, may they all RIP.  |
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Post by trekkielo on Feb 24, 2022 14:31:56 GMT -5
"Now the current hit by the British group who bombed with their first recording of this song 5 years ago, but this 2nd version is a winner, and all they had to do was add a 52-piece symphony orchestra, and a 24-voice choir, in the Summer of 1967 they had a big hit called A Whiter Shade of Pale, which went to #5, they followed that with another single that never even saw the Hot 100, on the next try a couple of months later with a song called Homburg, they reached #34, but that was their last time on the charts, the single charts, until now, this current hit the one that failed 5 years ago, was rerecorded last November at a concert in Canada, 3,000 people sat in the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta, and listened to a 5-man English rock group, backed by 76 classical musicians and singers, a best selling album came out of that program, and a hit single came out of the album, a song that didn't make it the first time around, now at #22, and movin' up, Conquistador, by Procol Harum" - Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from July 8th, 1972  |
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