Aug 17, 2020 • 1 min read

Setlist: Top ten legal battles - Procul Harum take it to the Lords

The Setlist special on music legal battles covers organist Matthew Fisher's copyright claim over Procul Harum's 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale', which reached the House Of Lords.

It’s the eighth in our series of special editions of Setlist looking at some of our favourite music industry legal battles of all time. This time, CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke look back at the copyright battle over the authorship of Procul Harum's 1967 single 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale', which was fought all the way up to the appellate committee of the UK's House Of Lords. Organist Matthew Fisher argued that he should have been given 50% stake in the song, but by taking 38 years to go legal, had he left it too long?



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