music · 04 April 2008 · 16 years ago
Procol Harum singer Gary Brooker won back full royalty rights to the band's worldwide hit, A Whiter Shade of Pale, at London's Court of Appeal. The decision overturned a 2006 ruling that organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to a 40% portion of royalties on the 1967 hit after he argued he had written the song's organ melody. The court ruled there was an "excessive delay" in the claim being made - nearly 40 years after the song was recorded.
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