In March, Robin Trower joined the rarefied group of rockers still going in their 80s. The London-born guitarist began his music career in a group called the Paramounts, then followed bandmate Gary ...

When Gary Brooker reappeared for the second half of Procol Harum’s recent Royal Festival Hall show, bandaged but unbowed after a stumble, it was almost a metaphor for the defiant way in which the ...

Back in 1966, Southend-based group The Paramounts split. They’d scored a hit single in 1964 with their version of Poison Ivy while they were still all teenagers, but time was showing that was likely ...

Gary Brooker is a British musician and the frontman of the progressive rock band Procol Harum. Born on May 29, 1945 in Hackney, London, Brooker first got his start in the music business as a session ...

A star-studded tribute to Procol Harum’s late singer and pianist Gary Brooker will take place on Dec. 4, featuring performances by Eric Clapton, Queen’s Roger Taylor, Genesis’ Mike Rutherford and more ...

His impressionistic lyrics, as in the hit song “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” helped make the band one of the leading acts of the progressive-rock era. By Alex Williams Keith Reid, whose impressionistic ...

Procol Harum confirmed Wednesday in a statement on Facebook that the lyricist died in a hospital in London last Thursday Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

“His lyrics were one of a kind and helped to shape the music created by the band,” the English rock band said. Songwriter Keith Reid, the lyricist for the 1960s rock legends Procol Harum, who co-wrote ...

Keith Reid, lyricist for the British group Procol Harum and co-writer of the iconic 1960s hit “Whiter Shade of Pale,” died on March 23 after a battle with cancer, according to a post on the band’s ...

English guitarist Eric Clapton kicked off his Saturday Detroit show with an instrumental performance of “God Save the Queen,” in a reverential tribute to Queen Elizabeth II two days after her death.

Billy Joel recently honored the memory of Gary Brooker of Procol Harum during his performance on Feb. 26. Brooker, the singer and founding member of Procol Harum, died on Feb. 19 after a battle with ...

Billy Joel paid tribute Saturday to recently departed Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, performing the band's 1967 classic "A Whiter Shade of Pale" during a concert at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium.