Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

Keith Reid • Words

Born Welwyn Garden City, UK

The Keith Reid Project: 2008 CD

BtP interview: The Well's on Fire

Keith Reid' book, + interview

Interview February 2002: ptI, pt II

Biography at Bucks Music

Links to many interviews

The playwright; the manager; the producer

Brooker on Reid and the truth

Tunes Music Network on Reid

Work outside Procol Harum

Keith on BBC Radio 1, 1973

Interview: 'lyricist, sage and historian'

Michel Polnareff collaboration

1997 interview from Shine On

Reid on US radio in 1974

Keith and the Secret Diva

A birthday tribute

'Friendship' in Reid songs

2002: Reid on the Holocaust

2008 The Argotist Online about songwriting

(portrait of Keith by Michael Andrews)

Keith Stuart Brian Reid was born 19 October 1946. Following the Procol 'Old Testament', he formed a personal management, publishing, and production company, and also a record label. His artists enjoyed a great deal of worldwide success including Gonzales (I haven't stopped dancing yet), Sutherland Brothers and Quiver (Arms of Mary, Sailing), Frankie Miller (Darling), Mickey Jupp (Don't Talk to Me), Robin Trower (Bridge of Sighs) etc. In the early eighties Keith returned to song-writing and moved to New York to re-start his career. He immediately had huge success with an unknown Australian artist, John Farnham, whose recording of Keith's You're the Voice became, and remains, the biggest-selling record in Australia of all time. He now continues to concentrate on his song writing and has had songs recorded by such best-selling artists as: Annie Lennox, Willie Nelson, Sarah Brightman, Jeff Healey, Heart, Robin Trower, Mavis Staples, Felix Cavaliere, John Waite, Chris Thompson, John Farnham, Alan Parsons Project and of course Gary Brooker and Procol Harum.

Keith Reid's words outside Procol Harum

Keith Reid's Procol Harum words

More Procol personnel

Procol Harum

Beyond the Pale

Keith Reid • Words

Born Welwyn Garden City, UK

Beyond
the Pale