GARY BROOKER DIED RECENTLY. Most people won’t know that name. But huge numbers of people around the world would recognize the 1967 tune he wrote with his bandmate Matthew Fisher: which became a worldwide hit song called A Whiter Shade of Pale.
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THE BREATHTAKING OPENING ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics was capped with a sneaky touch of genius – the playing of John Lennon’s Imagine.
The theme of the spring awakening was created by performers using rods to create a giant field of grass; picture by Xinhua via the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee
Movie director Zhang Yimou…