Saturday, 5. April 2008
Topic: MUSIK - on April 5, 2008 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Procol Harum wins back "Whiter Shade" rights
Procol Harum founder Gary Brooker on Friday won his court battle over royalty rights to the band's most famous hit, the 1967 song "A Whiter Shade of Pale."
In 2006 London's High Court awarded former keyboard player Matthew Fisher 40 percent of the copyright of the track, which has sold an estimated 10 million copies worldwide, after he successfully argued that he wrote the organ music to the song.
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