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The Moody Blues

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The Moody Blues are an English rock band. They first came to prominence playing rhythm and blues music, but their second album, Days of Future Passed, which was released in 1967, was a fusion of rock with classical music and established them as pioneers in the development of art rock and progressive rock.[5][6] It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums".[5] They became known internationally with singles including "Go Now", "Nights in White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Question". They have been awarded 18 platinum and gold discs. Their album sales total 70 million.[7]

As of 2015 they remain active with one member from the original 1964 band (drummer Graeme Edge) and two more from the 1966 lineup (bassist John Lodge and lead singer and guitarist Justin Hayward).

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Days of Future Passed

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Days of Future Passed is the second album and first concept album by English rock band The Moody Blues, released in November 1967 by Deram Records.[4] After two years performing as a struggling white R&B band, The Moody Blues were asked by their record label in September 1967 to record an adaptation of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 as a stereo demonstration record.[4] Instead, the band chose to record an orchestral song cycle about a typical working day.[4]

Recording sessions for the album took place at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London during 9 May - 3 November 1967.[8] The band worked with record producer Tony Clarke, engineer Derek Varnals, and conductor Peter Knight.[2] The album's music features psychedelic rockers,[2] ballads by singer-songwriter and guitarist Justin Hayward, Mellotron played by keyboardist Mike Pinder,[4] and orchestral accompaniment by the London Festival Orchestra.[2]

Music writers cite the album as a precursor to progressive rock music.[1][6][9] Bill Holdship of Yahoo! Music remarks that the band "created an entire genre here."[7] David Fricke cites it as one of the essential albums of 1967 and finds it "closer to high-art pomp than psychedelia. But there is a sharp pop discretion to the writing and a trippy romanticism in the mirroring effect of the strings and Mike Pinder's Mellotron."[4] Will Hermes cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and views that its use of the Mellotron, a tape replay keyboard, made it a "signature" element of the genre.[5] An influential work of the counterculture period,[10] Allmusic editor Bruce Eder calls the album "one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly

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[wardaddy]

I cannot lie

I loved the Moody Blues

First as a Brit invasion band but then as something far far different

They were the perfect accompaniment to lovemaking

And that dense internal dialogue wind down from a trip....especially a test style trip

Looking back they get lampooned as pretentious

But if you lived it

You “got it”

This is in no way an endorsement of such intoxicants

[howlinhound]

I saw them at least 5 times live in Toronto, Canada over the years and about 10 years ago at a casino in northern California. They played the same show every time but it was still amazing.

[Roccus]

I keep expecting to hear the sexy, sultry, smokey voice of The Night Bird (Alison Steele) after each track.....but that was long ago and far away.

[xvq2er]

And they’re still not in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. What a travesty.

[nothingnew]

Thanks for posting all the great music tubes. I enjoy almost everything you choose.

Happy New Year!

FMCDH(BITS)

[God luvs America]

big fan of the Moody Blues here...have seen them at least 20 times in concert since 1978...my daughter started coming with me to see them when she was 7YO...

highlight was Justin Hayward walking off the stage in Port Chester, NY around 2013 only to see my daughter, stop short and hand her a guitar pick...

while DOFP was ground breaking (when i saw them last tour in 2014 they performed Peak Hour as well as Tuesday and Knights) without a doubt the groups best album was Seventh Sojourn...

[grania]

Ahhhh...Nights in White Satin.

Two times in live concerts the MB did such a fantastic performance of that masterpiece that it brought the audience into a kind of suspended animation, with the music and words taking over any awareness of our surroundings.

I'm passionate about the MB. Back in their early days, it was a total experience when they had a new album......the poetry, the music, the artwork, the photography. It was a total experience, being reenergized by the beautiful feast they offered up.

My favorite among their less known songs is "For Emily". It's breathtakingly beautiful.

[BlueLancer]

I first heard of The Moody Blues on the last day of our Youngster Cruise from the Naval Academy. I was aboard the LPD CORONADO one day out of Norfolk. The Captain had given the crew, along with we Middies, permission to basically camp out on the helicopter flight deck for the night. Perfectly clear skies, warm wind, and billions of stars without the Moon.

One of the crew brought his stereo system out to the flight deck and started playing records. When he played "Days of Future Past" out into the blackness, it struck me as few things have ever done before, almost an existential experience, and I became hooked on the Moody Blues.

I have all of their albums, both in vinyl and CD, along with Hayward's solo CDs, as well as the soundtrack and DVD for "Jeff Wayne's - War of the Worlds", particularly for Justin Hayward's "Forever Autumn" and "Thunderchilde", typically-sounding Moody Blues' fare.

If I was shipwrecked on a desert island and could only take the music from one group along with me, it would be The Moody Blues.

[TwoSue]

I got Justin’s autograph a few months ago.