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Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker has died, aged 76, while receiving treatment for cancer.A statement on the band’s website reads: “With the deepest regret we must announce the death on 19 Feb 2022 of Gary Brooker MBE, singer, pianist and composer of Procol Harum, and a brightly-shining, irreplaceable light in the music industry. Aged 76, he had been receiving treatment for cancer, but died peacefully at home”.Born in London in 1945, Brooker moved with his family to Southend-On-Sea in Essex while he was still an infant.
His father Harry was also a professional musician, but died when his son was eleven years old.Brooker formed his first band in 1962, The Paramounts, gaining some recognition and releasing a number of singles before splitting in 1966. He then formed Procol Harum with lyricist Keith Reid, pulling together a band to perform their songs in 1967, the initial line-up being keyboard player Matthew Fisher, guitarist Ray Royer and bassist David Knights.The band recorded their debut single, ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’, later that year, which became a huge hit.
Their live debut followed – with Bobby Harrison joining on drums – supporting Jimi Hendrix.Although their next single, ‘Homburg’, was also a hit, ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ was so big and became such a classic that they were never able to match it. The band split in 1977, but reformed again in the early 1990s, continuing to perform live and record with various line-ups.
Their last album, ‘Novum’, was released in 2017.In 2009, Matthew Fisher – who originally left the band in 1969, but returned in 1991 until 2004 – won a lawsuit over the authorship of ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’, following various appeals. Fisher argued that he wrote the song’s distinct keyboard line
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Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman whose soaring vocals on the band’s 1967 proto-prog rock classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale” helped make the song a mainstay of 1970s FM radio, died February 19 of cancer. He was 76.
Procol Harum, has died aged 76.The pianist, composer and lyricist was being treated for cancer. He died peacefully at home over the weekend according to a statement on Procol Harum’s website.The statement described Brooker as “a brightly shining, irreplaceable light in the music industry”, adding that he “exhibited and developed a highly individual talent.“His first single with Procol Harum, 1967’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’, is widely regarded as defining the ‘summer of love’, yet it could scarcely have been more different from the characteristic records of that era.“Gary’s voice and piano were the single defining constant of Procol’s 50-year international concert career.
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NEW YORK -- Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera, whose radiant color and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice, has died. She was 106.Artist Antonio Bechara told The New York Times that Herrera had died at her Manhattan home Saturday.Fame finally came at age 89, when Herrera sold her first painting in 2004.It may have taken 60 years for Herrera to be discovered, but today her paintings — minimalist compositions of straight lines, form and color — are found in permanent collections of major museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London.“The core to Carmen Herrera’s painting is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of color,” according to the London-based Lisson Gallery.