Who would have thought this?<\/p>\n
Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is the most-played song of the past 75 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the UK, anyway.<\/p>\n I quite like that song. Oh, I have not a clue what it means. I love the sound<\/i>.<\/p>\n Ian McDonald slams the song in Revolution in the Head<\/i>, his lengthy analysis of the Beatles and their songs. The connection is that “Whiter Shade” was influential during the summer of ’67, and a lot of the Beatles’ music was written and performed in reaction to what competing groups at the time were doing.<\/p>\n Maybe I’ll go home tonight and give “Whiter Shade” a listen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who would have thought this? Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is the most-played song of the past 75 years. In the UK, anyway. I quite like that song. Oh, I have not a clue what it means. I love the sound. Ian McDonald slams the song in Revolution in the Head, his lengthyContinue reading “On “A Whiter Shade Of Pale””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4105],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}