Procol Harum

Procol Harum started off as a session group to record the Gary Brooker and Keith Reid composed song A Whiter Shade Of Pale - although there has been ongoing legal dispute as to the part played by organist Matthew Fisher. The song topped the UK chart and became one of the songs of the psychedelic summer of 1967.

Such was the success of Whiter Shade that the group decided to carry on recording and to play live gigs. The band quickly built up a reputation in the US and gradually accumulated a following in the UK.

Five year's later, the magic of the song had not dissipated and the single was re-issued - and charted all over again (this time reaching the UK Top 20).