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Yes, the singer is Gary Brooker (and yes, the lyrics are odd). BTW, there's another video on YT of them playing that song with a full orchestra 39 years later. The thing is, his voice is EXACTLY the same now....!
Yes awesome!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Except, better!
It's a must to see. 2006 Denmark I believe
I'd say his voice is even better in that one!
Absolutely an awesome live performance. Much of the time complex songs like this are hard to pull off live, but Brooker absolutely nailed it. (along with all the other musicians...)
Keith Reid wrote the lyrics (similar to Bernie Taupin doing lyrics for Elton John, Reid was the go-to lyricist for much of their material). Though the story swings around a bit, it's main imagery is from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". This is the first, great literary effort in the english language. The idea is of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. There were nuns in the entourage and when they get to the Miller for his story ("The MIller's Tale") he told a very ribald story. The kind that would make a sailor blush.
So I have always seen the virgin ('one of sixteen vestal virgins, who were leaving for the coast') being a dainty young innocent whose face (which at first was just ghostly) turned an even whiter shade of pale as she listened to the Miller's naughty tale.
Really great song in all respects.
Thank you! I've wondered about this for 50 years.
It has also been said it was about nuclear war. It was during the peak of the cold war.
@@axandio That doesn't make any sense.
"Conquistador", in Denmark - 2006 is the best version Procol Harum did, WOW! They are really well known English band. Your reaction/comments made my day.
Agreed! Live Conquistador is a jam!
Chod!!!
Here its done live w orchestra in 2006..
Mind boggling..
YOU'LL BE EVEN MORE IMORESSED/BLIWN AWAY!!!!
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Eric Clapton once said that this was the perfect song.
Paul McCartney has publicly praised it several times over the years, too.
Hard to argue.
John Lennon's favorite song.
There's 3 songs that are typically referred to as "Your favourite musicians favourite song"...
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
The Weight by The Band...
@@thumpyloudfoot864 ahhh... the weight. Perfection.
Yes Great song and you should check out conquistador too,yes Gary Brooker is the one singing and you should watch both whiter shade and conquistador live in denmark with a full orchestra. they are white haired and like a fine wine only got better with age 🎸🎶
Let me add that you do a back-to-back with the 2006 Danish concert version. What everyone else says is correct, Gary Brooker will blow you away by having almost as masterful a voice as he had when he was young.
I thought he had already done it??
This was the Beatles' fave song in '67....
The meaning of the song is open for individual interpretation. To me it is about a man whose wife or girlfriend is unfaithful, primarily because of the line "As the miller told his tale. That her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale." The Miller's Tale is from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and deals with an unfaithful wife. To me it indicates that the woman in the song is confronted with her infidelity and turns "a whiter shade of pale" due to being caught. IDK if this is the actual meaning - probably not - but it seems so to me.
Its almost impossible to describe to people when you try to now.
Literally one of the most beautiful songs ever made, but people barely can register this level of beauty anymore, so until they hear it, there are no words to describe it anymore.
On of the best selling singles ever. Over 10 million sales. And that was before downloads. Real vinyl records.
The guy in the white suit is Robin Trower. You have reacted to a few of his songs after he left Procol Harum and went solo.
There's a video of Brooker singing this song live with an orchestra in Denmark in 2006. He still had his chops.
All the comments about the Live in Denmark version are so true. One of the best live performances I have seen on CZcams. It is a "must see". The Hammond on that? With the orchestra? Wow.
You must do the live version from Denmark. Yes it's some 40 yrs later but it will blow you away how good the lead singer still is after all these years and its accompanied by a very accomplished orchestra and band. Something to definitely see now that you have seen the original. ty for your reacts, I dont miss many!
I consider this song a classic!
"Ray Coleman, author of Lennon: The Definitive Biography, tells about an episode at a party at Brian Epstein's, just prior to the release of the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper:
We spoke a little about the state of the music scene, and he (Lennon) said there was one 'dope' record which he couldn't get off his mind. He couldn't remember the title. All other pop music of that period was 'crap', one of his favourite words at that time.
Next day John phoned me. 'I remembered after I'd gone what record it is that I can't stop playing,' he said. 'It's that dope song, Procol Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale. It's the best song I've heard for a while. You play it when you take some acid and ... whoooooooo.' "
This song was in the top 5 on the soul charts in 1967. Everyone Black thought they were a Black acts and were really surprised to know they were British.
The most played song in public places in the United Kingdon over the past 75 years, (as of 2009);
most played song on the BBC over the past 70 years. A true classic.
Love, love, love Whiter Shade of Pale. Been a fav of mine since I was in elementary school. Beautiful and slightly haunting. And the organ is it!
Procol Harum was a very soulful band... To know modern music you need only to pay attention. To explore music you can only go back. I’m 60 years old and I’ve been doing this all my life. I’m at the 1500’s now and I won’t stop until I die.
That organ does make this music so good , so does the vocalist ! Timeless song !
A minor masterpiece you may want to try. Their haunting sea tale from their Desert Island Disc, "A Salty Dog". I've yet to see a reaction to it, but it is a wonderful song.
Yes, "A Salty Dog" is one of my favorites as well.
A classic!
This is one of those recordings that sounded old even when it first came out. It is very much rooted in 1967 'Summer Of Love' and will remain there, but it is a great tune worth listening to.
Lots of references in this song to Chaucer’s ,Canterbury Tales,particularly the Millers Tale.
This came out when I was 18. I probably was fairly average in my awareness of music as a teen in the US. This is the only song of theirs that I know, but I know it well. It was a song that would have been purchased as a single. I didn't know who the lead was or what they looked like. They probably were much more well known in Britain. There was no outlet then to show a video like this here or even in Britain. I recently learned that the Brits had a real advantage when MTV came along because their labels had been making promotional videos to send out to radio stations since the 60s. This uninspired one is an example of what most of those were like. The ones I've been seeing like the ones for Blackbird or Here Comes the Sun were much better, but have been new to me. They weren't shown contemporaneously because there wasn't an outlet for that. It's difficult to comprehend now how difficult it was to see a group you heard. There was a picture on a record jacket and maybe an appearance on a show like Ed Sullivan. The Beatles were really an exception, with dedicated magazines and films like Help!. I just want to point out how different fandom was back then and how difficult it was for a band to get a following. I think I'll seek out other songs by this group, because 54 years later, I'm curious. 😅
Excellent, accurate comment about what it was like to be a fan in the 60s and 70s.
Conquistador and A Salty Dog are great ones
I'd say it was maybe a little different in the UK, and I can only go from stories my father would tell me, but as these young British bands were emerging there was a pretty tight music scene going on in and around London. My dad would tell stories of how he and his mates would follow bands like the Stones and The Who all over the south east of England as they'd go around playing pubs and small clubs, trying to gain a following. He was a big fan of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and you can actually hear him and his mates shouting out in the crowd on the live album "R & B at the Flamingo", The Flamingo Club was an old music venue in Wardour Street in the West End of London, and R & B back then was a completely different style of music. But anyway, I digress. I can imagine that in the States and really due to the sheer size of the country, it was a completely different story as you say.
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I hadn't considered that difference, but it's huge. It would have been so cool to be able to go see the bands you loved.
FYI: 1967 was, hands down, the best year in popular-music history. Such a wealth of new sounds, new artists and innovations. You could base the rest of your show just in that year alone and not be disappointed. Procol Harum was just the tip of the iceberg.
Check their song Conquistador. But make sure you do the Conquistador 1972 live version. With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
I agree that that version should be heard first. If you want to go to the later one after it, that’s fine, but start with the 1972 version. Better to compare chronologically.
After stating I knew no other songs by them, I streamed Conquistador and some others. I definitely recognized Conquistador but didn't know the lyrics. I'm wondering where other commenters who are really familiar with this group are from.
@@snakelite61 I’m from Cincinnati. First heard them on the radio in the early 70s, then branched out on my own getting their albums and hearing the non-hits and found a lot of good tunes there as well.
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I wasn't that adventurous, and looking back didn't have the disposable income or access to record stores to really go too far from what I was hearing on the radio. I bought Beatles, S&G, Motown and Dylan mainly during that time period. Most people outside of cities didn't have access to decent record stores so were confined to what was played on the radio. I like to think my taste would have been broader had I lived in a city.
I absolutely love this song! It is a classic ✌
Watch them perform it live almost 40 years later in Denmark. AMAZING!!!!
Jumping on the 2006 Denmark performance bandwagon! Such a powerful performance with the orchestra intertwined with the band! Gary Brooker sounded as good then, it not better than he did back in '67! You've gotta check that one out!
Try "Conquistador" next.
_A salty dog._ No song anytime anywhere quite like it.
The song is loosely based on Bach's " Air on a G String". Some of the lyrics is inspired by Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale"
It's a great song. I saw Gary B. the year he played in Ringo Starr's All Star Band. He was great still sounds the same and playing that Hammond!
Gary plays the piano, not the organ though. But you're spot on in your assessment 😉
There is a third, and possibly fourth, verse for this song that didn’t make the cut in 1967. Frankly, I don’t remember the extra lyrics adding much clarity to the song. I think that they had something to do with mermaids. It was the Summer of Love in Swinging London, you know.
I think that the Hammond organ was invented in the 30’s for churches that couldn’t afford pipe organs during the Great Depression. Then, jazz guys adopted the Hammond in the 50’s. Rock guys began playing The Hammond in the 60’s. Everyone but the roadies love the Hammond organ.
Yet another vote for listening to the 2006 Denmark concert. Conquistador is a MUST next. The Hammond in this is just glorious, and Gary Brooker voice is as good as ever.
Amen! That Hammond organ became hard wired into my synapses decades ago. The main melody was inspired by Air on the G String from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major by Johann Sebastian Bach. The Miller's Tale was one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer (14th century) and the Vestial virgins reference goes back even further to ancient Roman times. They were priestesses of the popular cult of the goddess of the hearth Vestia, who were required to take a vow of chastity for 30 years according to legend (with dire consequences if any intercourse was experienced before or during their tenure; must have been some amazing fringe benefits otherwise). Weird contradiction is that Vestia was also a fertility goddess whom women would make offerings to for the purpose of having babies.
Chod, if you like organ and drum perfection you should really react to Iron Butterfly - 'In A Gadda Da Vita' (Full Version ) a 1968 rock masterpiece. Honest.
This was 1967.. The man singing is Gary Brooker.. he also wrote this song..I was 18 when this came out. You must listen to Gary Brooker singing this live in Denmark in 2006.. He sounds even better.
Moody Blues were at their best Live in Concert with an Orchestral backing, over 200 times. The played with several different ones, , and it is always amazing.
Next up their The Voice
What an amazing song... I first heard this in the early 1970s, and to this day I still get goosebumps. This song has one of the all-time, greatest Hammond Organ sounds in history. The guitarist was Robin Trower, who's an amazing guitarist, and many believed after the death of Jimi Hendrix that Robin would continue on. Trower mastered the dreamy, ethereal but frantic sound that Hendrix was known for, and his "Bridge of Sighs" album (with "Day of the Eagle" and "Too Rolling Stoned") is a really amazing album. The vocalist has even gotten better over the years, if you can believe it!
Iam 65 and still find this a haunting but beautiful classic. Appreceate you man. You get it and find the beauty in the generation past.
I have to add to the other suggestions to check out the Denmark 2006 concert. The most fully realized and seasoned performances of all their best work. Brooker’s voice is better than ever. A Salty Dog is I think on par with Whiter Shade and Conquistador.
I must have heard this song a hundred times, but I have never seen a video. Great music from a great era.
The videos were made by the record companies specifically to send to radio stations as 'promos'. They weren't meant to be seen by the general public as there wasn't anything like mtv to play them.
My high school English teacher used this and other songs of our time to help illustrate the various aspects of poetry and use of metaphors for our English class. It was great, loved that class, got to sit in school, listen to and discuss the meaning & merits of the classic songs of our own times and not some ancient verse. Thank you Miss Cruickshank!
P.S. This was almost always the last song of the night at our high school dances and one that you always reserved for your special flame ;>)
Thanks and cheers!
One of the Greatest Song ever Written!!
❤️ this song!!
Thank you for your reaction to this classic track! Here are a few blindsides for you that potentially no one else has or will! "Superman's Song: by Crash Test Dummies, "From Me To You" by Walk Off The Earth, "Tell Me Why" by April Wine, "One Fine Morning" by Lightouse, "Lydia Purple" by The Collectors, "Rain-o" by Chilliwack, "Too Bad" by Doug and the Slugs, "Absolutely Right" by The Five Man Electrical Band, "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) by Reunion, and "Someday Never Comes" by Creedence Clearwater Revival (I know you have done CCR but I have not seen anyone else suggest this song). Keep up the great work, Chod!
You have to check out this version!!! "Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006"
One of the great songs of the sixties, so sad but so creative.
Thank you for this reaction. Procol Harum is a magnificent band. They have many beautiful songs. Other songs of theirs your might like are: Conquistador, A Salty Dog, Shine on Brightly, Grand Hotel and Homburg. They also composed a half side album medley called In Held 'Twas I, which is astonishing.
CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I put the Hammond B organ above the sax. Several things, if you don't mind:
Blues guitarist Robin Trower was on this recording, and can be seen in the video. He soon left the band after this recording because he felt they were straying too far from the blues, and started his own power trio in the 70s.
There are several interpretations of the lyrics out there. I recall reading Gary Booker once saying that it's a song loosely about social alienation. I've also read where he said that it was just a bunch of random phrases strung together.
I remember when my mom bought this 45, and "Groovin'" 45 by The Rascals together, and played them both repeatedly. I still have those two 45s, but also have these songs on CD.
You should look at the live version of this song in Denmark 2006, stay safe young sir all the best from England.
So happy to see your open mindedness to all the variety of music from my time..As a teen I loved classic country, motown, psychedelic rock, folk, bluesy rock, progressive rock, hard rock, and Queen lol. And more and why not it was all so good. I never understood this song but I loved it anyway. Sometimes it is all about the feels. I enjoy your channel...thanks
Matthew Fisher plays organ here. Gary Brooker played for the Alan Parsons Project. Another great group. Also of note, Robin Trower started in Procol Harum.
This band got me listening to one of my favorite artists, Robin Trower is a fantastic guitarist
I like this version so much better than later big orchestra version. I not surprised if this is called a 'masterpiece' by those who think they know. It is lovely.
"Conquistador" next!
Melody is based on this Bach piece and "When A Man Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge (check it out and react).
JS BACH - AIR ON THE G STRING - WHITWORTH HALL ORGAN - THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER - JONATHAN SCOTT - CZcams
This is really in my top 10 songs of all time! Matthew Fisher played the the Hammond B-3 with a Leslie Speaker. It was responsible for me continuing on in my organ lessons. You would never guess that Robin Trower was playing the guitar if you didn’t read that album liner. There are at least two more verses of the song that they do once in a while live. Meaning...I think it is whatever you want it to mean. Thanks for doing this reaction. Excellent.
My sister saw Procol Harum just a year or two ago and Gary and the rest still really have it! Legends.. plus my brother in law is from Canterbury and his family brought him up on this so it really meant a lot to hear this live
Yes that was really remarkable for 1967 and it was done in mono. Its very famous but had it been released in stereo it might not be so forgotten as it is today.
my favourite single of all time. the Danish version, of 2006 is even better
Nah, the original Version, with the video of a London lost forever, is absolutely iconic. Nothing tops that, definitely not the live Denmark version.
This has always been a favorite band of mine. Here are some suggestions and a lot of these have very good organ: “Bringing Home the Bacon”; “Nothing but the Truth”; “A Salty Dog”; “As Strong as Samson”; “Homburg”; “Simple Sister”. Most driving, guitar song, “Whiskey Train”. Odd but cool - “Thin End of the Wedge”; other very good tunes:“Pandora’s Box”; “Whaling Stories”, from live with the Edmonton Symphony orchestra - when I saw them a couple years ago a lady was brought to tears by this song.; “The Unquiet Zone”; “In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence”. “A Dream in Every Home”.
For Whaling Stories in Denmark 2006, they brought out an anvil. Who needs more cowbell when you can have an anvil? It’s a great version of the song.
@@rtwbikerider That sounds great. I’m going to check it out. Do you prefer that version to the early ‘70s live version?
Michael, I’m going off of memory now. I think that the Denmark version is better recorded and “fuller” than the Edmonton version. I think that I like the studio version least. There’s no doubt that seeing it played live adds to my enjoyment of the Denmark version.
@@rtwbikerider Cool, thanks for the feedback. In the end taste has a personal, subjective element. I think I’ll listen to both versions again and just see which I prefer…
There's no better compliment than having your song covered by so many great artists
Great, great band. Much more than AWSOP, even though the song is tremendous.
Maybe the best organ playing of all time with beautiful vocals!👍🏻❤️☮️🎤🎹
Would love to see you react to the live version of this song in Denmark 2006. It's a masterpiece and has an orchestra and choir too
A rare live show from Steely Dan performing "Black Cow." And it is Excellent!!!! I thought you might want to see this Live since you like live shows.....It also means that this group maybe doing Live shows in the future.
Love your comments here, Chod. Thank you for that appreciation of older music. It’s very humble of you. And I’m totally with you on that evaluation of the Hammond organ. Really felt like church here, Johan Sebastian Bach...
The Lyrics Hypnotize, the Melody Haunts.
What a voice! He still sounds as good - even better - today!!
This song, more than any other, brings back my memories of the 60s like it was yesterday.
Story has it that the lyricist Keith Reid went to a record publisher to show the poems he had written. The publisher read them and adviced Reid to find a composer.
Epic LIVE: "Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006"
I saw Gary Brooker from Procol Harum the lead singer at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater some years ago along with Bill Wyman from the Rolling Stones I have to admit it's right up there with what I saw Paul McCartney or the Rolling Stones themselves beautiful concert
I was 19 years old. Great band, great album. I wore this album out
Awesome feedback to a Awesome song brother...would really love to see your reaction to the Live version in Denmark its Absolutely beautiful 💯🔥
Johnny Rivers covers " Whiter shade of Pale."Excellently.
This is a great song So hauntingly beautiful.
Please react to Leon Russells "Lady Blue".
And I haven't seen any Johnny Rivers reactions 😔. Like "Midnight Special" "Memphis Tennessee" "Poor Side of Town" "Secret Agent Man" & more. Great guitarist also.
Please react to the live version from Denmark 2006 with the orchestra and choir. A different lineup, but with the same great vocalist/pianist.
I STRONGLY second the suggestion for the live version from Denmark 2006, brilliant
A snow storm delayed them a day...and they were so unhappy with their co ordination with the symphony and chorus...that the encore was....the entire show again An amazing night makng the record...Procal and the Edmonton Symphony...Conquistador with a full symphony was impressive
The lyrics describe one of the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, and the woman's face went white because her husband (the singer) found out she was having an affair. Great song, one of my favorites.
This was one of my best hang on to songs in the 60s
I saw Gary Brooker with Bill Wyman from the stones and other musicians and backup singers at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater outside very intimate and very cool one of the best
Back in those days a lot of groups got paid mainly for live gigs. They did not get paid anywhere near as much for records (CDs) as they do now. Check out Ron Howard's documentary of the early days of The Beatles. They were constantly performing in England back then.
The traditional English education has always been heavy in the classics. In the '60s and '70s many songs by British groups had a lot of references to classical literature. This song has several references to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales written in the late 1300's. Bohemian Rhapsody and Tales of Brave Ulysses are among others with ties to the classics. In the 2006 Procol Harum did a concert with a Danish National Orchestra and Choir. All of the songs are great but particularly this, Conquistador, and Salty Dog. Gary Booker's voice has matured and gotten a little lower but he's taken care of it and it's at least as beautiful as ever.
You might enjoy the live version in Denmark with an concert orchestra. ( beautiful)
One of the best songs from the past! So many people have done covers of this song...it was a staple in the bars for slow dances back in the day. Thank you for doing this one!!🎶🎶❤
Summer of love,1967
London.
It was THE place to be.
Listen to "Conquistador" by them,outstanding with a unique groove.
You have GOT to react to the Denmark 2006 performance of this song accompanied by a full orchestra. It's a moving experience; their talent has only increased with time. You will love it.
Gary Booker played keyboards on the landmark album, All Things Must Pass by George Harrison.
This is definitely one of the most iconic songs for the era of psychedelic/hippie music. It's beautiful, but many of these songs are indecipherable in their true meaning. It was a strange period where people were starting to use psychedelic drugs to reach a 'higher' state of consciousness and spirituality, many joined communes in search for love and peace, it was part of that generations reaction to what was happening in Vietnam...at the same time you had groups making a political stand like CCR and Buffalo Springfield. Another great song that captures the essence of the love movement of the time and is much clearer in it's lyrics is Doug McKenzie's "San Francisco". The truly sad thing about the hippie love peace movement was the fallout of drugs on that generation and the ones that followed. Then you get the songs by Pink Floyd and Neil Young about the loss of friends to drugs. There is a song from my generation (X-gen) that captures the negative trap that happened there you may want to check out (love it if you would) it is by the group Thrill Kill Cult and is called "Daisy chain 4 Satan" , which I know sounds bad, but if you watch the video, you will understand the ugly underbelly of what started out as a beautiful concept... but drugs are never the path or tool to use to achieve love and peace. Okay, said my piece. As always, love and peace to you.
Great song. There were a lot of movies in the 80's made about the 60's and this song seemed to be in many of them, such as, The Big Chill. Great songs are usually covered by other artist. Annie Lennox has a version. I have never seen this video, so this is the first time I've seen how they look at.
You do need to hear this done live with the full orchestra in Denmark in 2006, it's even better...
The organ was quite a big thing in British rock bands of the psychedelic 60s to introduce unusual sounds in the days before synthesisers became a viable part of rock instrumentation. In a related vein I'd like to pitch a song that I've requested a few times to a few reactors to no avail because I think it's right up your alley. Since you're a fan of Jazz and the organ, you may be aware of Brian Auger and if you are then you may be aware of his 2 year line-up in the late 60s called Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity. If not, you're missing out on a slice of jazz-rock heaven. Their biggest hit was a cover of Bob Dylan's "Wheels on Fire" which was all over the airwaves in the UK at the time but I'd like to suggest a trippy little number by them called "Season of the Witch" which could satisfy your taste for jazz, rock, organ and female vocalists all at once. Some tasty guitar and drums as well. Don't look for too many likes on this request coz it's a bit obscure but I think it would get one from you.
Huge, mesmerizing and iconic song that nowadays is a cult song. PH is in my top ten fav bands. This studio single version is in m o their best. A 1967 tremendous world wide hit ( N° 1 in more than 15 countries). The band was very prolific and recorded 13 albums. Love these other gems : Homburg, these 1972 symphonic live versions with the Edmonton orchestra of Salty dog and Conquistador. I also love Grand hotel, Shine on brightly, Whaling stories, As strong as Samson, The wreck of the Hesperus, etc.
I like to compare musicians from the 60's & early 70's to pro ball players in the 20's and 30's. They all did it for the love and not the money.
It surprises me whenever someone hasn't heard this song. Its been in so many movies, TV shows, and other forms of media over the years
Yes the the Denmark version is a true masterpiece IMO the best version and I really like the original.
Daaaamn!! Saw them in concert in NYC in 1969... Awesome!!
Many of these guys were brought up being taken to listen to listen to church organ every Sunday (and a sermon) the way a lot of (especially) black American youth did and do.
David Gilmour's solo album "About Face" has a bunch of great songs. Murder, Out of the Blue, You Know I'm Right, Near the End, etc.