Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

When Procol Harum started and that era from then the whole atmosphere changed slightly until things became Really a bit more important and a bit more serious and a bit more artistic Everyone had started becoming more experimental. You know the art was kind of creeping in I Do remember Having this musical idea which I worked out on the piano air or g-string which was a Bach composition and it came out, but I think when I got after about the first two bars. I Think I got it wrong kind of thing or didn't remember where it went, but I just carried on in my own way Then I wrote this sequence, which had a bit of Bach like melody over the top But Air on G srting thingy Just in that style And I think it was about then that an envelope I believe arrived that morning or something and I opened it and it was some new lyrics from Keith and the first one that I opened was A whiter shade of pale We skipped the light fandango Turns cartwheels cross the floor I was feeling kind of seasick The crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away You know I was at a party just a bunch of people sitting around and having a good time and They were talking about a friend of theirs They were really they were saying you kind of look a bit strange Or you look a little pale Or this I overheard this little conversation, and I turned that into that phrase a whiter shade of power 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 I'm very I'm always been very interested in visual you know in in in pictures in painting in cinema You know I've always been interested in visual stuff and so You you try and come up with that in words you try and and I mean these are very abstract things But it's kind of what you're trying to express and that's the way I work Basically with an idea you know building going from a little P. You know you could say if you were painter You know a few brush strokes, and you look at it, and you go hmm. What is that? What could that be? kind of like a Being at them yeah toulouse-lautrec type picture You said there is no reason and the truth Is plain to see But I wandered through my playing cards And would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast i used to like cursed. I still do I used to like the surrealist painters very much, so like a Dali painting You might think I'd like I'd like the song. I'd like it to feel like a Dali painting looks you know clocks dissolving and Just fantastical things, you know the colors that somebody would use in a picture you try and come up with that in Word 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 It was out before Sergeant Pepper album and before a lot of other things it was it was the very first Attempt to really go off on into another angle, I think we there was no fashion or style that was like a whiter shade of pale and Which is button possibly one of the reasons that it? It shocks and affected everybody Was that it wasn't like anything else And so it was

Channel: Top 2000 a gogo

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Keywords: Robin Trower, A Whiter Shade of Pale, interview, top 2000, Essex, Procol Harum, Gary Booker, Southend-On-Sea, progressive, docu, documentary

Id: Pf73XwjZIFQ

Length: 5min 39sec (339 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2017