"I think that from the moment that I wrote the song, complete with the idea of combining Johann Sebastian Bach with a band and a blues vocal going over it together with the very unusual words, then from the moment that was conceived I always thought that it was a good song. Whenever I played it to anyone it was just me sitting at the piano and every person thought that it sounded like a hit. So we honestly believed that it was going to be a hit even before we had recorded it. Once we had recorded it and had captured that very characteristic sound, a rather haunting sound, we really did think that it was a good one." A proposito di A Whiter Shade Of Pale.

(Gary Brooker, cantante, pianista, compositore; Londra, 29 maggio 1945 – Londra, 19 febbraio 2022)