A Whiter Shade of Pale, surprisingly declared by the BBC to be the most played song in public places in the past 75 years, has also famously been the subject of a bitter feud between founding members of Procol Harum.Brooker was credited as a co-writer, along with the lyricist Keith Reid.Matthew Fisher, then a recently departed keyboardist from the band, took issue with the comment, launching into a correspondence with the paper during which he claimed it was he, and not Brooker, who was responsible for the baroque hook: The organ part, including the solo and the infamous Bach licks, was entirely my doing, he wrote.
In 2000, songwriting royalties were frozen amid claims from Fisher for a backlog of payments due. The case came to a head in 2006 when Fisher appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice, sat at an organ, playing his solo bar by bar to explain the process of his composition. His performance won him 40 per cent of the copyright to the song, although his claim for up to 1m of back royalties was rejected. Two years later, on the basis that there was an excessive delay in the claim being made, the ruling was overturned and though Fisher was not granted back royalties it was accepted that he was a 40 co-writer of the recorded song. Reid sent his surreal song, drawing on various classical and literary sources, to Brooker. I remember the day it arrived: four very long stanzas, said Brooker. ![]() I suppose everyone will have forgotten about it in two weeks, posited one interviewer, interrogating Brooker on the meaning, as the record hit No 1 in 1967. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post.
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