It is ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ - and to this day ... He sent the finished lyrics to Gary Brooker in Southend. Brooker, formerly pianist with R&B band The Paramounts, half remembered Jacques ...

I’d been working on a musical idea, which until then had been purely instrumental, when I opened the post and A Whiter Shade Of Pale was on the top of other lyrics. “I was immediately taken ...