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Matthew Fisher is a keyboard player, singer, and producer who is best known for his work as a founding member of Procol Harum -- he was the group's organist, and later served as producer/arranger during that band's first three years. Along with Robin Trower and Gary Brooker, he was one of the stars to emerge from the ranks of the group, following the latter's sudden rise to fame in 1967. Born Matthew Charles Fisher in Croydon, Surrey, England in 1946, he studied music in his youth, particularly the keyboard, though he also became proficient on the guitar and the bass, among other instruments, and learned the art of orchestration, as well. In early 1967, he answered an advertisement in Melody Maker and was recruited into a group, initially called the Pinewoods, that was being put together by pianist/singer/songwriter Gary Brooker. Since the breakup of his longtime band the Paramounts a year earlier, Brooker had been writing songs with lyricist Keith Reid, and the Pinewoods, which also i...