Gary Brooker recalled the writing of the music : "I'd been listening to a lot of Classical music, and Jazz. 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' seemed to be about two people, a relationship even. It's a memory. There was a leaving, and a sadness about it. To get the soul of those lyrics across vocally, to make people feel that, was quite an accomplishment.
When it came to me , I thought, 'Here's something.' I happened to be at the piano when I read them, already playing a musical idea. It fitted the lyrics within a couple of hours. Things can be gifted. If you trace the chordal element, it does a bar or two of Bach's 'Air On A G String' before it veers off.
That spark was all it took. I wasn't consciously combining Rock with Classical, it's just that Bach's music was in me."
Dedicated to my dear brother Nir Halfon and his family...
The song is based on the piano played by Freddie Mercury, while falling to accompany Roger Taylor and John Deacon from the battery and low respectively, in the studio version, Brian May only involved with the guitar during the solo, while in the live version that appeared during the Jazz Tour Crazy Tour and, May playing chords to give a sound leaning more towards the Rock.
The song is used for a commercial VH1 also was used in the movie "Shaun of the Dead"
The melodie is so beautiful. I can hear it every and every day.
Red it some place that this is Hunter S. Thompson's quote ,
"We are raising a generation of dancers".
That was meant to convey the message that the youth of America is starting to have the tendency of following somebody else's beat, rather than marching to the beat of their own drum.
dedicated to te Weatern world leaders in the confortation against Iran and the Islam.
[wyclef] Yo, what up, this wyclef with mary j. I serenade the girls with my accoustic guitar You know what Im sayin? Yo, fellas havin problems with the chicks? I want you right now to turn the lights down low Pull your girl up next to you I want you to sing this to her
If death comes for me tonight, girl I want you to know that I love you And no matter how tough I wouldnt dare Only to you I would reveal my tears So tell the police I aint home tonight Messin around with you is gonna get me life But when I look into your eyes Youre worth that sacrafice If this is the kind of love that my mom used to warn me about Man, Im in trouble Im in real big trouble If this is the kind of love that the old folks used to warn me about Man, Im in trouble Im in real big trouble I need yall to do me a favor
Someone please call 911 Tell them I just been shot down And the bullets in my heart And its piercing through my soul Feel my body gettin cold Somone please call 911 The alleged assalaint Is my lover And she shot me through my soul Feel my body gettin cold
[mary j. blige] So cold Sometimes I feel like Im a prisoner I think Im trapped here for a while And every breath I fight to take Is as hard as these four walls I wanna break I told the cops you wasnt here tonight Messin around with me is gonna get you life Oh yeah, yeah But everytime I look into your eyes Then its worth the sacrifice
[wyclef] If this is the kind of love that your mom used to warn you about Man, we are in trouble Youre in real big trouble If this is the kind of love that the old folks used to warn me about Im in trouble Im in real big trouble You got anything to say, girl?
[mary j. blige] Someone please call 911 Tell them I just got shot down And its piercing through my soul Feel my body getting cold
[wyclef] Someone please call 911 The alleged assalaint Was my lover And she shot me through my soul Feel my body getting cold
Wyclef and mary j. blige I know youre feeling me, girl I know you understand
This was a Hall & Oates song but Paul Young did it better.
What was so great about the 80s was that a traditional blues and R&B song like this could get lumped in with New Wave and still sound good alongside bands like The Cure, Thompson Twins, Psych Furs...
that was the beauty of that time in music...It was such a melting pot of styles and a great deal of it was incredible.
Elvis Presley was the first real rock and roll star. A white southerner who singing blues laced with country and country tinged with gospel, Presley brought together music from both sides of the color line.
Presley performed this music with a natural hip swiveling sexuality that made him a teen idol and a role model for generations of cool rebels.
Presley was repeatedly dismissed as vulgar, incompetent and a bad influence.
What was so great about the 80s was that a traditional blues and R&B song like this could get lumped in with New Wave and still sound good alongside bands like The Cure, Thompson Twins, Psych Furs...
that was the beauty of that time in music...It was such a melting pot of styles and a great deal of it was incredible.