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must have killed mani to see this held out for so many posts...
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..."A Whiter Shade of Pale", recorded by Procol Harum. The lyric was written by Keith Reid, who didn't play an instrument and so never performed with the band, but was considered a member as he wrote their lyrics.
He got the idea for the lyric from a few sources - an off-handed comment about a girl at a party turning "a whiter shade of pale", his depth in literature and his interest in French cinema, especially some of the surrealistic and impressionistic trends of the day.
The general idea is about a boy and girl at a party,...
Some have tried to find a connection between "the miller told his tale" lyric and "The Miller's Tale" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...
The chord changes from Gary Brooker was based on Bach's "Air on a G String", and the famous organ theme, written by Matthew Fisher, was based on Bach's "Sleepers Awake" (which all came out in the recent lawsuit...)...
Hope that helps some. Here's the lyric:
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Heroes
David Bowie
And you
You can be mean
And I
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers
And that is that
...
I
I wish I could swim
Like dolphins
Like a dolphin can swim
Though nothing
Will drive them away
We can beat them
For ever and ever
we can be Heroes
Just for one day
I...
Vintage!!
I give Blackmore a lot of credit for totally changing his approach to his solos when Gillian joined the band. I LOVED his solos on "Emeretta" "Hard Road" "The Bird has Flown" and a few others from the Mark I version of the band
He was like Zappa in being able to totally transform what he was doing on the guitar in order to bring out the best on the people around him.
Made in Japan is still probably the live album anyone has ever done.
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A band once described by Mick Jaggar as "The greatest FUCKING band in the World!"