Buy a signed, limited-edition lyric sheet
of A Whiter Shade of Pale
Keith Reid and Frank Key, in Roland's book
The Keith Reid
Project: 2008 CD
BtP
interview: The Well's on Fire
2009 interview about lyric-writing
Good
interview from May 2010
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
ASCAP audio
portrait
2008 The Argotist Online about songwriting
Keith Reid's The Only Monkey video
(YouTube,
MySpace)
2018: solo album, In My Head
2018: substantial Reid intervew for BtP
(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, Gary Brooker and Procol Harum. His two solo albums to date are The Common Thread (2008) and In My Head (2018)
2017 saw the release of Novum, the first Procol Harum record made without Keith's input. The words for Novum were largely written by Pete Brown