Seán Twomey*1 “Gary Brooker 1945-2022” https://www.katebushnews.com/2022/02/22/gary-brooker-1945-2022/
Harriet Sherwood “Gary Brooker, lead singer of English band Procol Harum, dies, aged 76” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/22/gary-brooker-lead-singer-procol-harum-dies-aged-76
「プロコル・ハルムの中心人物 ゲイリー・ブルッカー死去」https://amass.jp/155467/
Adam Sweeting*2 “Gary Brooker obituary” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/23/gary-brooker-obituary
Alexis Petridis*3 “With A Whiter Shade of Pale, Gary Brooker accelerated pop’s future at warp-speed” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/23/with-a-whiter-shade-of-pale-gary-brooker-accelerated-pops-future-at-warp-speed
２月19日、プロコル・ハルム*4のリード・ヴォーカリスト／キーボード奏者のゲイリー・ブルッカー *5が癌のために息を引取った。享年75歳*6。
彼はプロコル・ハルム解散後、アラン・パーソンズ、エリック・クラプトン、ビル・ワイマン、リンゴ・スターらと活動してきたが、やはりケイト・ブッシュのThe Red Shoes*7とAerial*8への参加（バッキング・ヴォーカル、ハモンド・オルガン）をマークしておくべきだろう。
They had a charisma that turned a number of eminent listeners into fans, including the writer Douglas Adams, who credited the band’s song Grand Hotel with inspiring his book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The film director Martin Scorsese, who was particularly fond of their third album, A Salty Dog (1969), wrote about Procol Harum in the foreword to Henry Scott-Irvine’s 2012 biography of the band: “The point was not so much what the songs were saying, specifically, as what they were suggesting to each of us, individually.”
*1:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110106/1294246640 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/09/07/085321 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/10/04/104930 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/11/12/161626 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/12/22/124409
*2:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20080916/1221529020 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20120523/1337701361 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20130522/1369244717 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150404/1428076121 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150408/1428463911 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150624/1435119462 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150630/1435623111 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160111/1452529920 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160309/1457542184 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160424/1461523983 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160701/1467348805 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20161112/1478931820 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20161225/1482656805 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170125/1485327568 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170126/1485399042 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170519/1495160445 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/10/07/101533 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/07/27/143235 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/01/11/144245 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/01/22/093236
*3:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090309/1236622473 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100728/1280293011 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110729/1311871264 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120603/1338745679 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120708/1341677438 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20131028/1382925103 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20140901/1409591774 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160422/1461293723 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161027/1477538541 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161229/1482985097 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20170313/1489332422 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20171001/1506871085 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20171006/1507222739 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/10/07/101533 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/05/07/093756 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/05/07/104014 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/09/16/225732 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/01/19/142132 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/12/13/110420 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/01/22/093236
*4:https://procolharum.com/ See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procol_Harum See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20060407/1144425086
*5:See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Brooker
*6:Procol Harum “Gary Brooker MBE 29 May 1945 – 19 February 2022” https://procolharum.com/gary-brooker-obituary.htm
*7:Mentioned in https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20060418/1145330536 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20080702/1215017909 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20081020/1224483114 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110425/1303702580 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110531/1306868679 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160422/146129372 3https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160427/1461724177 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180522/1526955863 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180607/1528348462
*8:Mentioned in Mentioned in http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060106/1136525882 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060516/1147742468 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070818/1187405396 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20081020/1224483114 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110106/1294246640 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110425/1303702580 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110805/1312518352 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110915/1316013301 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160315/1457997788 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180130/1517332154 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/10/04/104930 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/07/12/144113 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/11/12/161626
