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“I first heard this on the way back from a combat assult into a forgotten landing zone. We didn’t have enough fuel to deviate to anywhere but home, so the cockpit switched to armed forces radio, and this was playing. No matter where I am now, when I hear this song, I’m sitting against the bulkhead in the center of a UH-1D, listening to the whine of the transmission and the whap, whap of the rotor blades as they carry us away from a place where a very dedicated group of young men tried to kill us.”

- 09beegee, “Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - 1967 (Tom Moulton’s Sync Stereo Mix)”