The accompanying music video, directed by Joe Dyer, is noted for its dreamlike, "Fellini-esque" atmosphere.
For Lennox, the song was more than just a famous hit; it was a nostalgic anchor to her youth in Scotland. She recalled being a teenager at a party where she brought the only record: Procol Harum's original "A Whiter Shade of Pale". She played it repeatedly, later noting that the song’s surreal and melancholic nature "makes all sense and no sense at the same time" and felt like it was already "in her bones" before she ever officially learned it. The Surreal Music Video Annie Lennox - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Lennox stripped away the original's heavy psychedelic feel, opting for a "stately" and "elegant" arrangement. The accompanying music video, directed by Joe Dyer,
Annie Lennox ’s 1995 cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is a haunting, cinematic reimagining of Procol Harum’s 1967 psychedelic classic. Recorded for her second solo album, Medusa , a collection entirely of covers, the track reached the top 40 in Europe and Canada and remains one of her most celebrated vocal performances. A Personal Connection She played it repeatedly, later noting that the
These visuals complement the song’s abstract lyrics, which are famously open to interpretation—ranging from a drunken sexual encounter to a snapshot of 1960s decadence. Musical Reinvention
The video features Lennox in a variety of avant-garde settings, including an off-kilter circus and a scene where she is swinging in a bear costume.
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Other prepackaged versions of Basilisk II that I am aware of:
Really old versions for legacy systems:
To download the current version of the repository via Git:
$ git clone https://github.com/cebix/macemu.git
After downloading and setting up the repository you can, for example, try to compile the Unix version of Basilisk II:
$ cd macemu/BasiliskII/src/Unix $ ./autogen.sh $ make