Influences in Popular Culture
The band's unusual name has inspired references in modern popular culture. The asteroid 14024 Procol Harum is named after the band, as is the orchid Procol Harum, a hybridisation of Cymbidium Mighty Sensation with Cymbidium Electric Ladyland.
There are many corruptions of the phrase A Whiter Shade of Pale in the press. These are extensively listed here.
There is a rose named after A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
The second book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker Trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel", from Procol Harum's album of the same name.
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