Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gary Brooker reappeared for the second half of Procol Harum’s recent Royal Festival Hall show, bandaged but unbowed after a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When your first single is one of the most lauded in history, there’s a possibility it can overshadow not just your inspired debut ...

Fifty years into a legendary career, most bands are content to rest on their hits, releasing bland blues covers albums or bored-yet-pleasant regurgitations of their earliest work. Procol Harum is not ...

Feedback. Distorted guitar. Guitarist Mick Grabham asking producer Chris Thomas, “is it on, Tommy?” A calm before the first track, “Nothing but the Truth,” comes crashing in. The organ and guitars ...

The London-born Brooker was singer and keyboard player with the band, which had a huge hit with its first single, "A Whiter Shade of Pale." By The Associated Press Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum ...

In 2017 Procol Harum released their 12th album, Novum. Marking the band’s 50th anniversary, it proved to be their final studio release – but when vocalist Gary Brooker (1945-2022) and new-recruit ...