{"id":838,"date":"2026-01-26T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=838"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:01:15","slug":"mm-1967-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/01\/26\/mm-1967-5\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) 1967 with lyric\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BADDeIQWVQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;A Whiter Shade of Pale&#8221; is a song by the English rock band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Procol_Harum\">Procol Harum<\/a>\u00a0that was issued as their debut single on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Singles_Chart\">UK Singles Chart<\/a> on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks.\u00a0 \u00a0Without much promotion, it reached number 5 on the US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0One of the anthems of the 1967\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Summer_of_Love\">Summer of Love<\/a>, it is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_best-selling_singles\">sold more than 10 million<\/a> copies worldwide.\u00a0 \u00a0In the years since, &#8220;A Whiter Shade of Pale&#8221; has become an enduring classic, with more than 1,000 known cover versions by other artists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . &#8220;A Whiter Shade of Pale&#8221; is a song by the English rock band\u00a0Procol Harum\u00a0that was issued as their debut single on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the\u00a0UK Singles Chart on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks.\u00a0 \u00a0Without much promotion, it reached number 5 on the US\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}