![]() The songwriters themselves have never said, and my own theory is that the words have no deeper meaning at all but who am I to know anything?Īnyway, Whiter Shade has just been declared to be (in one of those odd league tables) the ‘most played song in public places’ over the past 75 years, beating Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody into second place. There are, as you would expect with such things, all sorts of theories, including that it was about being high on cocaine, waking up from a dream, an interpretation of a Chaucer poem, the end of a relationship, and so forth. Indeed, the lyrics of the song as a whole are a mystery to most. Getting to the bit in the lyrics where ‘sixteen vestal virgins leaving for the coast’, both admit they have no idea what on earth that is supposed to mean. There’s a scene in the movie based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, The Commitments, where one of the characters is discussing the Procol Harum song, A Whiter Shade of Pale, with a Roman Catholic priest. ![]()
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