Top ten legal battles - Procul Harum take it to the 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 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? SUBSCRIBE TO SETLIST Listen to Setlist and sign up to receive new episodes for free automatically each week through any of these services… Acast | Apple Podcasts | audioBoom | CastBox | Deezer | Google Play | iHeart | Mixcloud | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn KEEP LISTENING • Check out all Setlist specials MORE FROM CMU • Buy the new Dissecting The Digital Dollar on Amazon • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin