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"Nights in White Satin" is a song by English rock band the Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward. It was first featured as the segment "The Night" on the album Days of Future Passed . When first released as a single in 1967, it reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart and number 103 in the United States in 1968.
Hayward explains, "Nights In White Satin" had been recorded quite a long time before it was for Days of Future Passed. "Nights In White Satin" and "Dawn Is A Feeling" were the two key songs that gave us the idea of the story of a day in the life of one guy, and that's what our stage show was about before Days of Future Passed was mentioned or ...
The composing credit for the whole album was listed as Redwave/Knight (Redwave being a made-up collective name for the five Moody Blues), although "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" were written by Hayward, "Dawn Is a Feeling" and "The Sun Set" were written by Pinder, "Another Morning" and "Twilight Time" were written by Thomas ...
The Moody Blues scored three top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Nights in White Satin" reaching number 2 in Billboard and number 1 in Cashbox. On the UK singles chart, the group also had three top-ten hits, with "Go Now" reaching number 1.
The album is regarded as a progressive rock landmark, and Thomas's flute solo on the single "Nights in White Satin" one of its defining moments. [21] His flute became an integral part of the band's music, even as Pinder began to use the mellotron keyboard.
However, both songs were overshadowed by the re-release of "Nights in White Satin", which had been first released in 1967. Whereas both singles from Seventh Sojourn made the top 40, "Nights In White Satin" bested both, hitting No. 9 in the UK and No. 2 in the United States and gaining the highest American chart position for a Moody Blues single.
A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra is a live album by The Moody Blues, recorded from a live performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 9 September 1992. [2] This performance was the first time The Moody Blues performed in concert backed by a full orchestra .
Written at the end of one love affair and the beginning of another, the 1967 song "Nights in White Satin" was, according to Hayward, "in adoration of all women". Hayward married Ann Marie Guirron on 19 December 1970. His daughter, Doremi, who sings on the track "Raised on Love" on Hayward's 1977 album Songwriter, was born on 3 December 1972. [31]