![]() ![]() The track was recorded at London’s Olympic Sound Studios, where it was completed in just two takes, with Denny Cordell serving as producer. In truth, his music doesn’t borrow from Bach at all, it’s just highly reminiscent of the composer’s style. When I met Keith, seeing his words, I thought, ‘I’d like to write something to that.” people often assume Brooker plucked his arrangement from Bach’s ‘Air on a G String’. ![]() “Having played rock and R&B for years, my vistas had opened up. In that same Uncut interview in 2008, Brooker recalled “listening to a lot of classical music, and jazz” while writing the music. That decadence is highlighted by Gary Brooker’s organ arrangement: at once highly original and immediately evocative of something you’re certain you’ve heard before. I might have been smoking when I conceived it, but not when I wrote. But I was too young to have experienced any decadence, then. I suppose it seems like a decadent scene I’m describing. I wasn’t trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative. “With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene. Speaking to Uncut, the lyricist recalled “trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story,” he said. When he sat down to write the lyrics, the saying came back to him. And for some reason everything at our first studio session came out sounding really good.”Īccording to Claus Johansen, author of Beyond The Pale, Reid heard the phrase “you’ve turned a whiter shade of pale” at a party. In those days, it wasn’t just a question of how good is your song? It was how good of a recording can you make? Because it was essentially live recording, and if you didn’t have a great sound engineer or the studio wasn’t so good, you might not get a very good-sounding record. “At our first session,” he continued, “We cut four tracks, and ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’ was the one that recorded best.
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