Whiter Shade of Pale is most played song

'A Whiter Shade of Pale' by Procol Harum is the most heard song of the last 75 years, it has been claimed.

The 1967 hit has been broadcast in public places more than any other song, found a chart compiled for BBC Radio 2.

Music licensing firm PPL say they took into account everywhere music is consumed in public, whether in the high street, on hospital radio, in pubs, clubs and supermarkets, in stadiums or on jukeboxes.

Other songs frequently played in public places include Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams.

Presumably the research did not monitor the pan pipe renditions of dodgy 90s songs which seem to be playing everywhere I go.