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He didn't realize until long after he
became a non-performing member of
Procol Harum, providing the band
with 10 albums worth of song lyrics,
including the international hit "A
Whiter Shade of Pale," that his fami-
ly's history with the Holocaust had
had a profound effect on his writing
(and his identity as a Jew).
"The tone of my work is very
dark," Reid says, "and I think it's
probably from my background in
some subconscious way. It goes back
to my dad and what happened to him
and the events of those times."
His father, Irwin Reiter, a promi-
nent Viennese lawyer, was one of
more than 6,000 Jews arrested in
Vienna on Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10,
1938, and sent to Dachau prison near
Munich, Germany. He was released
several months later after promising
to leave the country. He, along with a
younger brother, fled to England.
The fate of their parents remains a
mystery.
It was discovering Bob Dylan in
1965 that steered Reid toward song-
writing.
"When I heard Bob Dylan, I
thought songwriting could be a
career," says Reid, who had no desire
to perform even though he was an
accomplished pianist. "Dylan's songs
were simple musically but sophisticat-
ed lyrically. The Beatles were so
sophisticated musically that it was
hard to imagine being able to match
that Dylan's surreal imagery really
influenced me."
In late 1965, Reid connected with
singer and pianist Gary Brooker, the
man who would put music to Reid's
words.
Reid's literate, cryptic poetry filled
with surreal imagery fit Brooker's
plaintive singing style. A writing team
was born and hit a grand slam with
its first effort. "A Whiter Shade of
Pale," released in May of 1967,
charged up the record charts on both
sides of the Atlantic. A couple more
hits — "Homburg" and
"Conquistador" — would follow, but
nothing would have as huge and as
enduring an impact as "Pale."
Pete Brown
Pete Brown used to start food fights
at his Jewish day school in London as
a form of rebellion against the tyran-
nical rabbis who taught there. While
Brown enjoyed studying Hebrew and
loved the music he heard in syna-
gogue, "the religious side of things
was banged into you quite brutally,"
he recalls.
Looking back, Brown, who was
born in 1940 and is six years older
than Gouldman and Reid, believes
much of that strictness was born
from a sense of post-war urgency to
make sure Judaism didn't die.
As mischievous as Brown was, he
credits the school with instilling in
him a love for language, a passion for
poetry and the desire to become a
musician. He would go on to form
one of rock music's most.successffil
songwriting teams with Cream
bassist-singer-songwriter Jack Bruce.
The pair wrote most of Cream's best
material, including "White Room,"
"I Feel Free," "Politician," "SWLABR
(She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow),"
"As You Said," "Deserted Cities of the
Heart" and, with Eric Clapton,
"Sunshine of Your Love."
Brown was born in the midst of
World War II in the south of
England. His family had been evacu-
ated from London after a bomb had
blown up the family's house and shoe
shop. As a teen, Brown (the family
name was originally Labovitch or
Leibowitz) began reading poets such
as Dylan Thomas and Allen
Ginsberg. He eventually tried his
hand at poetry and published his first
work by the time he was 18.
In 1965, he gained notoriety read-
ing his work at the Royal Albert Hall
on the same bill with Ginsberg and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Soon after-
ward, Brown got a call from drum-
mer Ginger Baker. He had formed a
new band called Cream and wanted
Brown to write with the group. "The
magic," Brown says, "happened
between me and Jack (Bruce)."
Lovin' Spoonful guitarist Zal
Yanovsky may have spotted the
Jewish British Invasion early. When
asked what it was like to be an
American band competing with
waves of groups from England,
Yanovsky joked that the secret to suc-
cess was to "Dress British and think
Yiddish." Looks like he was on to
something.
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Summer Shoe Sale June 27 - 29
"The Strange Days Festival," fea-
turing the classic rock of Doors
of the 21st Century with special
guests John Kay & Steppenwolf,
Vanilla Fudge, Pat Travers and
the Yardbirds, makes a stop at
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