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Gary and Franky Brooker • Golden Wedding Anniversary

13 July 1968 – 13 July 2018


'Beyond the Pale' offers its heartiest congratulations to Gary and Franky Brooker, pictured at home with their Fiftieth Anniversary Cake, made by Brea Gosling

Detail of cake ... it includes the following article from the UK's Sunday Mirror
 

The 'blushing bride' gets a whiter shade of pale

 

Traditionally brides blush.

And the wedding of Gary Brooker, founder and lead singer of The Procol Harum pop group, had everything tradition demanded.

Swiss au-pair girl, Françoise Riedo, 22, made a beautiful bride. Her white bridal gown and flowing veil were in the best of traditional style.

The bridegroom was immaculate in formal morning dress.

But as the bride stepped through the church door, tradition took a knock.

She walked up the aisle of St David's Church, Eastwood, Southend-on-Sea, to the strains of A Whiter Shade of Pale, the group's best-selling record which Gary helped to write.

 

"You can also say that after fifty years of marriage I'm still his Number One fan!"
the blushing bride told BtP this morning 


 


Gary Brooker's page at BtP | That wedding article and more | Another GB cake tale | A further GB cake tale | And twenty-five years earlier ...

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