RAL colour standard relates to the shade of the colour: This collection, which follows the naming of RAL Classic, was invented in 1961. It is nowadays made up of ten colours (RAL 1039-F9 Sand beige, RAL 1040-F9 Clay beige, RAL 6031-F9 Bronze green, RAL 6040-F9-Light olive, RAL 7050-F9 Camouflage grey, RAL 8027-F9 Leather brown, RAL 8031-F9 Sand brown, RAL 9021-F9 Tar black and RAL 6031-HR Bronze green for non-camouflage applications), used by the "Bundeswehr" for military camouflage coating. In 1993 a new colour matching system was introduced, tailored to the needs of architects, designers and advertisers. It started with 1,688 colours and was
A Whiter Shade of Pale is also referred to humorously in the 1982 play "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard and in the 1991 film "The Commitments". Other writers have noted similar “family resemblances” to other works by Bach: the Sinfonia which opens the cantata "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe", BWV 156, the organ chorale Prelude "O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß" (O Man, Lament Your Sin So Great), BWV 622, from the "Orgelbüchlein" (Little Organ Book) and the Cantata "Sleepers Wake", BWV140. The music also borrows ideas from "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge. Procol Harum recorded "A Whiter