’A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ Britain’s most played song

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(AFP)

13 April 2009

LONDON - Procul Harum’s 1967 classic ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ is the most-played song in public places in Britain over the last 75 years, the music licensing body said Monday.

Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was second, while The Everly Brothers’ ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’ came third in a chart released by Phonographic Performance Limited, which licenses recorded music for broadcast or public performance, to mark its 75th anniversary.

Wet Wet Wet’s version of ‘Love Is All Around’ was at number four and Bryan Adams’ ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’—which topped the British charts for a record 16 weeks—was at number five.

Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker said topping the chart was a ‘great and unsought honour’.

The singer, who wrote the song’s music, won a Court of Appeal battle last year over the royalty rights to their best-known hit.