{"id":1052,"date":"2012-08-03T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:59:21","slug":"a-whiter-westway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/a-whiter-westway\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whiter Westway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quickie &#8211; A lot of people, myself included, have commented on the similarities between Blur&#8217;s &#8220;Under The Westway&#8221; and Procol Harum&#8217;s &#8220;A Whiter Shade Of Pale&#8221;, but until I tinkered, I hadn&#8217;t realised *exactly* how close they were &#8211; same tempo, same key (C major, I think)&#8230; although Blur cut the last bar of each verse three measures short to achieve a rolling, overlapping effect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/55096576&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t need to do more than a minute for you to get the idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I do like &#8220;Westway&#8221; a lot, and, well, &#8220;Whiter Shade&#8221; was heavily influenced by Bach, so as usual, round and round the riffs we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quickie &#8211; A lot of people, myself included, have commented on the similarities between Blur&#8217;s &#8220;Under The Westway&#8221; and Procol Harum&#8217;s &#8220;A Whiter Shade Of Pale&#8221;, but until I tinkered, I hadn&#8217;t realised *exactly* how close they were &#8211; same tempo, same key (C major, I think)&#8230; although Blur cut the last bar [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}