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	"Take My Breath Away" noicon A sample of Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun soundtrack and Count Three & Pray
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For the 1955 western, see Count Three and Pray (film).

Count Three & Pray is the fourth studio album by the New Wave band Berlin, released in 1986. It featured the hit single "Take My Breath Away", which was featured in the film Top Gun.

Track listing[link]

All songs written by John Crawford, except where noted.

1. "Will I Ever Understand You" 4:42
2. "You Don't Know" 4:28
3. "Like Flames" (Brill) 5:07
4. "Heartstrings" (Brill/Crawford/Nunn/Reid) 4:13
5. "Take My Breath Away" (Moroder/Whitlock) 4:12
6. "Trash" 3:39
7. "When Love Goes To War" (Fairweather) 4:12
8. "Hideaway" (Crawford/Sanford) 5:08
9. "Sex Me, Talk Me" 4:43
10. "Pink And Velvet" (Nunn/Olsen) 6:41

Chart performance[link]

Production[link]

• Bob Ezrin, Berlin, Giorgio Moroder: Producer
• Jeff Bennett, Charlie Brocco, Dave Concors, Bob Ezrin, Paul Gomersall, Ted Hayton, Peter Lewis, Steve Lyon, Bob Mithoff, Tom Nist, Michael Rosen, Steven Strassman, David Tickle, Tom Whitlock: Engineers
• Bob Ezrin, Giorgio Moroder, Brian Reeves, Mike Shipley, David Tickle: Mixing
• Stephen Marcussen: Mastering

Personnel[link]

• Terri Nunn: Vocals
• Ric Olsen: Lead Guitar
• David Diamond: Rhythm Guitars, Syntheiszers
• Matt Reid: Synthesizers, Keyboards
• John Crawford: Bass, Synthesizer
• Rob Brill: Drums, Percussion

Additional Personnel[link]

• Gary Barlough, Bob Ezrin, Greg Kuehn, Andy Richards, Peter Robinson, Jun Sato: Keyboards
• Gene Black, Steve Dougherty, Elliot Easton, David Gilmour, Alan Murphy, Ted Nugent, Kane Roberts, Gregg Wright: Guitars
• Patrick O'Hearn: Bass, Fretless Bass
• Luis Jardim, Osamu Kitajima, Masakazu Yoshizawa: Percussion
• Richard Niles: Orchestral Arrangements
• Art Damage Choir, John Batdorf, William Batstone, Lance Ellington, George Merrill, Tessa Niles: Additional Vocals

References[link]

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Terri Kathleen Nunn (born June 26, 1961,^[1] Los Angeles, California), is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the New Wave band Berlin.

Biography[link]

Nunn joined the New Wave, techno-pop band Berlin in 1978, but temporarily left the band the following year to pursue an acting career. In 1981, Nunn rejoined the group as the lead vocalist and would soon forge her recording career with the band. Nunn's greatest success with Berlin was the top-selling single "Take My Breath Away", the love theme from the film Top Gun, which reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Other popular songs voiced by Nunn include "Sex (I'm A ...)", "The Metro", "You Don't Know", "No More Words", and "Masquerade".

She appeared in numerous television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including T.J. Hooker and Lou Grant. She auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars^[2] and appeared in the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday. in 1979, Nunn appeared in the short-lived CBS TV series Time Express.

In 1977 Nunn appeared in the February Penthouse issue, under the name of Betsy Harris. Nunn was underaged when the issue was released and for that reason she denied it publicly for several years. In 2011 Nunn admitted in two separate interviews that the pictorial of Betsy Harris was indeed her.

In 1985 Nunn took a brief break as lead vocalist for Berlin and recorded the song "Dancing in Isolation" for the film Better Off Dead. The song was produced by British singer and producer Rupert Hine. In 1989 Nunn performed a duet with ex-Squeeze member Paul Carrack called "Romance", which was included in the soundtrack to the film Sing. In the early 1990s, Nunn sang back-up vocals for the band The Sisters of Mercy. In 1991 she recorded and released a solo album entitled Moment of Truth, in association with Prince's Paisley Park Producer David Z.^[3]

Nunn briefly sang for a rock band called Sin City, which played in such smaller Los Angeles clubs as the Martini Lounge (now known as the Larchmont) on May 14, 1996 and the (West Hollywood) House of Blues on Dec. 29, 1996.

Having obtained the rights to use of the band's name in 1996,^[4] Nunn resurrected the band with new members in 1996 and resumed recording and touring. Two EPs, Fall Into Heaven and Fall Into Heaven 2, were released in 1999, followed by Berlin's first live album, Sacred and Profane, in 2000. A subsequent album featuring all new songs, Voyeur, was released in 2002. The album 4Play, released in 2005, included both new songs and covers of some of the band's favorite songs by other artists. In 2006, Nunn appeared as a guest vocalist on Pamela Moore's album Stories from a Blue Room. In 2004, she and Berlin’s original line up reunited for the VH1 series "Bands Reunited".

In 2008, Nunn was one of the contributors to Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's book, Cherry Bomb. Nunn gave tips on sex and dating advice.^[5][6]

A new live DVD/CD was released in June 2009, recorded at the House of Blues.

Nunn toured the U.S. as part of the 2009 Regeneration Tour^[7] which also featured Martin Fry of ABC, Wang Chung, and the Cutting Crew.

Berlin toured with rock band INXS during summer 2011, and is currently working on a new album.

When not touring or recording, Nunn co-hosts "Between the Sheets", a popular podcast on webcast media station Hottalkla.com.^[8]

In January 2012 Nunn is scheduled to debut her radio show on KCSN-FM which will feature interviews and live performances^[9].

From January to March 2012 Nunn is scheduled to record a "electronic and especially dance-oriented" solo album scheduled for Summer 2012 release^[9].

Personal Life[link]

As of November 2011 Nunn was married to Paul Spear, an attorney, and was the mother of two teenage sons and a seven year old daughter. The family has lived in Agoura Hills, California since 2001^[9].

References[link]

External links[link]

• Terri Nunn at the Internet Movie Database
• The Berlin Page
• Terri Nunn, Martha Davis and Gaye Ann Bruno's 'Between The Sheets' podcast on HotTalkLA.com

Joanne Woodward
1960 publicity photo
Born	Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (1930-02-27) February 27, 1930 (age 82) Thomasville, Georgia, U.S.
Residence	Westport, Connecticut
Education	Sarah Lawrence College
Alma mater	Louisiana State University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1955–present
Home town	Marietta, Georgia
Spouse	Paul Newman (m. 1958–2008) «start: (1958)–end+1: (2009)»"Marriage: Paul Newman to Joanne Woodward" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Joanne_Woodward) (his death)
Children	3
Awards	Academy Award for Best Actress, Emmy Award

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).

Early life[link]

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons.^[1][2] Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry.^[3] She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies.^[3] Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name "Joanne".^[3] Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him and he told her he remembered her doing it.

Woodward lived in Thomasville until she was in the second grade. Her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia. They moved once again when she was a junior in high school, after her parents divorced.^[3] She graduated from Greenville High School in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina. Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She appeared in theatrical productions at Greenville High and in Greenville's Little Theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in their staging of The Glass Menagerie directed by Robert Hemphill McLane. She returned to Greenville in 1976 to play Amanda Wingfield in another Little Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie. She had also returned in 1955 for the premiere of her debut movie, Count Three And Pray, at the Paris Theatre on North Main Street.

Woodward majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage.^[3]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

in The Stripper (1963)

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying in the New York production of Picnic, which featured Paul Newman.^[3] The two were married in 1958 after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), for which she won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Actress.^[3]

Films with Paul Newman[link]

Newman and Woodward from the trailer for A New Kind of Love (1963)

She appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten featured films:

• The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
• From the Terrace (1960)
• Paris Blues (1961)
• A New Kind of Love (1963)
• Winning (1969)
• WUSA (1970)
• The Drowning Pool (1975)
• Harry & Son (1984)—(directed by Newman)
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Both appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls but had no scenes together.

She starred in five films that Newman directed or produced but in which he did not star:

• Rachel, Rachel (1968)
• They Might Be Giants (1971)
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds—which featured their daughter, Nell Potts (1972)
• The Shadow Box (1980)—(television movie)
• The Glass Menagerie (1987)

Later career[link]

Woodward has continued to act, in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character,^[3] and in television. She appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's screen version of The Age of Innocence.

Woodward was a co-producer and starred in a 1993 broadcast of the play Blind Spot, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. She was executive producer of the 2003 television production of Our Town, featuring Newman as the stage manager (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of Shirley Jackson's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice of the character Hughie under the screen name of P. L. Neuman.

Woodward is the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.^[3]

She recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamp's song "The Real Life" for his box set On the Rural Route 7609. In 2011 she narrated the Scholastic/Weston Woods film All the World.

Personal life[link]

Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman.^[4] However, there was no real engagement: Vidal later claimed it was a stunt to attract Newman's attention.^[5] Woodward shared a house with Vidal in Los Angeles for a short time and they remained friends.

Woodward met Newman in 1953. They later reconnected on the set of The Long Hot Summer in 1957. Newman married Woodward on February 2, 1958 in Las Vegas. In March 28 the same year, Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The couple remained married until Newman's death from cancer on September 26, 2008. Their 50-year-marriage is iconic since long-lasting marriages between big stars are rare in Hollywood.^[6]

Woodward and Newman had three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959), known on screen as Nell Potts and generally as Nell Newman, Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia Newman (1965). They also have two grandsons (Lissy's children).

In 1990, Woodward graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with her daughter Clea.^[3] Newman delivered the commencement address, during which he said he dreamed that a woman had asked, "How dare you accept this invitation to give the commencement address when you are merely hanging on to the coattails of the accomplishments of your wife?"^[7]

In 1988, Newman and Woodward established the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, named for the outlaws in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The eleven camps permit seriously ill youngsters to enjoy the great outdoors, at no cost to them or their families.^[8]

Woodward continues to live in Westport, Connecticut.

Filmography[link]

Awards[link]

In 1958, Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve.^[3] She was nominated for Best Actress in 1969 for Rachel, Rachel, in 1974 for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, and in 1991 for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. She was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for her performance in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

Woodward won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in Do You Remember Love? (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She has been nominated an additional five times for her roles on television.

A popular (but untrue) bit of Hollywood lore is that Woodward was the first celebrity to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In fact, the original 1,550 stars were created and installed as a unit in 1960; no one star was officially "first."^[9] The first star actually completed was director Stanley Kramer's.^[10] The origin of this legend is not known with certainty; but according to Johnny Grant, the long-time Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Woodward was the first celebrity to agree to pose with her star for photographers, and therefore was singled out in the collective public imagination as the first awardee.^[11]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Joanne Woodward

• Joanne Woodward at the Internet Movie Database
• Joanne Woodward at Allmovie
• Joanne Woodward's thoughts on Earth Day 2006

Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, (born 26 March 1963 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host who lives in Montreal, Quebec and Paris, France. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Childhood and family[link]

Roch Voisine was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada but grew up in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick. His parents are Réal Voisine, former mayor of Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec and a former English teacher, and Zélande Robichaud, a former nurse. He is the oldest of three children: his brother, Marc, was born in 1965, and his sister, Janice, was born in 1966. Roch lived with his paternal grandparents, Maurille and Dorina Racine Voisine, from age four, when his parents divorced, until he was eight, when he went to live with his father. Roch considers these grandparents very influential on him, even as an adult. Roch moved to Notre-Dame-du-Lac when he was 12.

He aspired to be a professional ice hockey player until he was severely injured playing baseball in 1981.

He attended the University of Ottawa and graduated in 1985 with a degree in physical therapy.

Voisine married Myriam Saint-Jean on 21 December 2002. Voisine and Saint-Jean have two sons, Killian (born 25 June 2004) and Alix-Élouan (born 9 January 2006). On 15 October 2007, Voisine's website announced his and Myriam's separation.

Music[link]

In the summer of 1986, he had his music debut when he sang on Canada Day (1 July) in front of 50,000 people at the la Ronde amusement park in Montreal.

Voisine's musical breakthrough came with his 1989 album Hélène which sold three million copies and became a major hit not only in Quebec but also in France, Belgium and Switzerland. In 1990, Hélène was awarded the Best Album prize at the Victoires de la Musique.

After a highly successful European Tour in 1991, he was awarded France's Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His second European tour culminated on 17 April 1992 at Champ-de-Mars in Paris where he sang in front of 75,000 people. The show was broadcast live on TF1 and reached 14 million viewers. The following years, his statue was inaugurated at Musée Grévin in Paris.

In 1993, Voisine had his biggest English-language hit to date with the single and album both entitled I'll Always Be There, on which he worked with David Foster. The single reached number four on the Canadian music charts while the album reached number seven.

Over the years, he has continued alternating between recording both French and English-language albums. His French language work and concert tours have continued to enjoy success in Europe (especially France) and Quebec, while his English-language recordings are a frequent mainstay of Canadian adult contemporary radio. He also enjoys huge success internationally.

In 2006, he took part alongside other musicians^[1] in L’Or de nos vies in a formation named Fight Aids singing a song composed by Kyo. Revenues went to Fight Aids Monaco.

Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada gave him an honorary doctorate in music in May 2007.

Television[link]

Voisine's first television appearance was hosting Top Jeunesse (1988), a TQS variety show for teenagers.

His dramatic roles include:

• Dany Ross in the CBC Television series Lance et Compte (He Shoots, He Scores) (1989)
• Police detective Tom Bullik in the Canadian TV movie Armen and Bullik (1992).

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• ^AAlbums with separate Canadian and European editions.

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Roch Voisine at the Internet Movie Database
• Roch Voisine's archives

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the debut song by the British band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967. The single reached number one in the UK Singles Chart^[1] on 8 June 1967, and stayed there for six weeks. Without much promotion, it reached #5 on the US charts, as well. It is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

With its haunting Bach-flavoured instrumental melody, soulful vocals, and unusual lyrics—by the song's co-authors Gary Brooker, Keith Reid,^[2] and Matthew Fisher-- "A Whiter Shade of Pale" reached #1 in several countries when released in 1967. In the years since, it has become an enduring classic. It was the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the UK (as of 2009),^[3] and the United Kingdom performing rights group Phonographic Performance Limited in 2004 recognised it as the most-played record by British broadcasting of the past 70 years.^[4] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone placed "A Whiter Shade of Pale" #57 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

More than 1000 recorded cover versions by other artists are known.^[5] The song has been included in many music compilations over the decades and has also been used in the soundtracks of numerous films, including The Big Chill, Purple Haze, Breaking the Waves, The Boat That Rocked and notably in Martin Scorsese's segment of New York Stories. Cover versions of the song have also been featured in many films, for example by King Curtis in Withnail and I and by Annie Lennox in The Net.

The original writing credits were for Brooker and Reid only. On 30 July 2009, Matthew Fisher won co-writing credit for the music in a unanimous ruling from the Law Lords.

Recording and personnel[link]

The song was performed and recorded at Olympic Studios in London, England with Gary Brooker providing the vocals and piano, Matthew Fisher on a Hammond M-102 organ, David Knights on bass and Ray Royer on guitar. Drums were by session drummer Bill Eyden. A few days later, the song was re-recorded with the band's then newly-recruited drummer Bobby Harrison. That version, though, was considered inferior^{[citation needed]} and one of the original mono recordings was chosen for release.

Producer for the record was Denny Cordell and Keith Grant was the sound engineer.^[6]

The song was included on the original U.S. release of the Procol Harum album, but not on the UK version.

Lyrics[link]

Reid got the title and the starting point for the song at a party. He overheard someone at the party saying to a woman, "You've turned a whiter shade of pale," and the phrase stuck in his mind.^[7][8] The original lyrics had four verses, of which only two are heard on the original recording. The third verse has been heard in live performances by Procol Harum, and more seldom also the fourth.^[9] The author of Procol Harum: beyond the pale, Claes Johansen, suggests that the song "deals in metaphorical form with a male/female relationship which after some negotiation ends in a sexual act."^[8] This is supported by Tim de Lisle in Lives of the Great Songs, who remarks that the lyrics concern a drunken seduction, which is described through references to sex as a form of travel, usually nautical, using mythical and literary journeys.^[10] Other observers have also commented that the lyrics concern a sexual relationship.^[7]

Structurally and thematically, the song is unusual in many respects. While the recorded version is 4:03 long, it is composed of only two verses, each with chorus. The piece is also more instrument-driven than most songs of the period, and with a much looser rhyme scheme. Its unusually allusive and referential lyrics are much more complex than most lyrics of the time (for example, the chorus focuses on Chaucer's The Miller's Tale). Thus, this piece can be thought of as a forerunner to the progressive rock that would reach its zenith about ten years later.

The phrase a whiter shade of pale has since gained widespread use in the English language, noticed by several dictionaries.^[11][12][13] As such, the phrase is today often used in contexts independent of any consideration of the song. (See ^[14] for many annotated examples complete with links to original sources.) It has also been heavily paraphrased, in forms like an Xer shade of Y--this to the extent that it has been recognised^[15][16] as a snowclone – a type of cliché and phrasal template.

Composition[link]

The song is in moderate time, in C major, and is characterised by the bassline moving stepwise downwards in a repeated pattern throughout. In classical music this is known as a ground bass. The harmonic structure is identical for the organ melody, the verse and the chorus, except that the chorus finishes with a cadence. The main organ melody appears at the beginning and after each verse/chorus. But it is also heard throughout, playing variations of its theme and counterpointing the vocal line. Both the vocal and the organ accompaniment reach a crescendo at the beginning of the chorus "And so it was, and later ..."; where the organist rapidly runs his finger down and up the entire keyboard. The final instrumental fades out to silence - a common device in pop music of the time.

The Hammond organ line of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's "Sleepers, Wake!" and "Air on the G String" - both of which use a similar stepwise bass motion. But contrary to popular belief, the song is not a direct copy or paraphrase of any music by Bach,^[17] although it makes clear references to both pieces. This similarity is referred to in the 1982 play The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard and the 1991 film The Commitments. A yet closer melodic influence that is seldom cited can arguably^{[weasel words]} be found in the organ choral prelude "O Mensch bewein dein' Sünde groß" (O Man, Lament Your Sin So Great), BWV 622, from Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book). The music also borrows ideas from "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge.^[18]

Reception[link]

The single was released on 12 May 1967 by Deram Records and entered the UK charts on 25 May. In two weeks it reached number one where it stayed for six weeks, and on the UK chart for a total of 15 weeks. A May 1972 re-release on Fly Records stayed in the UK charts for a total of 12 weeks, and reached number 13 as highest. In the US, it reached #5 and sold over one million copies. In the Netherlands it entered the chart at number one in June 1967 and again reached number one in July 1972.

Chart positions: # 1 (UK), # 1 (the Netherlands), # 1 (Germany), # 1 (Ireland), # 1 (Australia), # 1 (World), # 3 (Norway VG-lista), # 5 (USA Hot 100). "A Whiter Shade of Pale" also managed to peak at number twenty-two on the soul charts in the U.S.^[19]

Over time, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has earned extensive critical acclaim:

• John Lennon was a great fan of the song and was known to have played it repeatedly in his Rolls Royce. When it was released in England, Lennon (and friends in his circle) reportedly confused Brooker's soulful vocals with Steve Winwood, who had popularity at the time with The Spencer Davis Group.
• It was named joint winner (along with Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which also uses the word 'fandango') of the Best British Pop Single 1952–1977 at the BRIT Awards, part of Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.
• #57 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.
• British TV station Channel 4 placed the song at #19 in its chart of the 100 greatest number one singles.^[20]

Authorship lawsuit[link]

In 2005, former Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher filed suit in the High Court against Gary Brooker and his publisher, claiming that he co-wrote the music for the song.^[21]

Fisher won the case on 20 December 2006 but was awarded 40% of the composers' share of the music copyright, rather than the 50% he was seeking and was not granted royalties prior to 2005.^[22]

Gary Brooker and publisher Onward Music were granted leave to appeal, and a hearing on the matter was held before a panel of three judges during the week of 1 October 2007. The decision, on 4 April 2008, by Lord Justice Mummery, in the Court of Appeal upheld Fisher's co-authorship^[23] but ruled that he should receive no royalties as he had taken too long (38 years) to bring his claim to litigation. Full royalty rights were returned to Brooker.^[24]

On 5 November 2008, Matthew Fisher was granted permission to appeal this decision to the House of Lords.^[25] Lawyers say it is the first time the Law Lords have been asked to rule on a copyright dispute involving a song.^[26] The appeal was heard in the House of Lords on 22–23 April 2009.^[27]

On 30 July 2009 the Law Lords unanimously ruled in Fisher's favour. They noted that the delay in bringing the case had not caused any harm to the other party; on the contrary they had benefited financially from it. They also pointed out that there were no time limits to copyright claims under English law. The right to future royalties was therefore returned to Fisher.^[28][29] The musicological basis of the judgment, and its effect on the rights of musicians who contribute composition to future works, has drawn some attention in the music world.^[30]

Video[link]

The first video for the song was shot in the ruins of Witley Court in Worcestershire, England.^[31] The Witley Court video features four of the five musicians who played on the hit single: Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, David Knights and Ray Royer, in performance and walking through the ruins. Only the drummer in the video isn't on the record: early band member Bobby Harrison is seen miming to session man Bill Eyden's drumming. According to Shindig! Magazine's Procol Harum cover story by Alan Robinson (November–December 2009 issue – page 55), the video was directed by Peter Clifton whose insertion of Vietnam War newsreel footage caused it to be banned from airplay on the "Top of the Pops" TV show. The band subsequently made another video using "Scopitone" technology, but by this time, Robin Trower and B.J. Wilson had replaced Royer and Harrison in the band, so only three of the five musicians on the recording are represented, and no performance footage included – only the five musicians cavorting around London, running across fields, etc. This lineup, with Fisher in a monk's cowl, also mimed to the song on Top of the Pops, (though Gary Brooker sang live) and black and white footage of this performance has been shown online, perhaps constituting the third video of the song from 1967. (See also its inclusion on the 'Top of the Pops 40th Anniversary 1964–2004 DVD'.)

There was also a video shot as part of Joel Gallen's Deja-View music video series.^[32] Originally airing on various networks in late 1985 through 1986, this video starred Harry Dean Stanton and Bernie Taupin, but featured no member of the band. It has also aired on VH1 Classic, and has recently surfaced online.^[33][34]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bill Eyden Obituary
• Procol Harum — A Whiter Shade Of Pale, live video from Eagle Rock Entertainment's official channel on YouTube
• A Whiter Shade of Pale: authorised lyrics of all four verses