Were you one of the people that wondered what the lyrics meant? It’s been 50 years since this song came out and I still love it!

Procol Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ @ 50 – Best Classic Bands

If you were a regular radio listener in the heady spring/summer of 1967, it was yet another revelation, a song that grabbed your attention the very first time. Perhaps, its churchy organ line and the midtempo pace reminded you of Percy Sledge’s #1 soul ballad of the year before, “When a Man Loves a Woman.”