Keith Reid （キース・リード）亡くなる

Keith Reid が亡くなったと Bruce Garfield （Executive Director, アメリカ、オハイオ州 Columbus Music Commission）が言っている。Keith Reid は "A Whiter Shade of Pale" - 邦題 青い影 - （1967年リリース）で有名なバンド Procol Harum のメンバーでバンドに 1977 年まで詩を提供していた。ユダヤ人で、彼の詩が暗さをもっていたのは親がホロコーストを経験したからだと言われている。

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" は時を超えた曲だった。彼の詩はずっと歌われていくだろう。

[Verse 1]

We skipped the light fandango

Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

I was feeling kinda seasick

But the crowd called out for more

The room was humming harder

As the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

The waiter brought a tray

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge 1]

[Verse 2]

She 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

And although my eyes were open

They might have just as well've been closed

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge 2]

作曲は Gary Brooker

2009 年、イギリスのラジオにおいて過去 75年間で最もかかった曲と認定された。