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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is the seventh album by The Moody Blues, released in 1971.The album reached No. 1 on the British album chart, in addition to a three-week stay at No. 2 in the United States, and produced one top-40 single, "The Story in Your Eyes".
The album is a collection of songs without a conceptual theme, continuing the style of its two predecessors, A Question of Balance and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. According to John Lodge, "The album was very loosely based on the idea of The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. This is how Seventh Sojourn evolved: we told stories, but musically." [1]
The album was an attempt by the group to strip down their previously lush, psychedelic sound in order to be better able to perform the songs in concert. [3] Guitarist Justin Hayward remembers, "From the beginning of our recording sessions we were all convinced that we had to record an album of songs that could easily translate into effective live performances.
The Fly" is the seventh song on U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released as the album's first single. It has been described as "the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua Tree." [35] The song's subject is that of a phone call from someone in Hell who enjoys being there and telling the person on the other line what he has learned. [36 ...
"The Story in Your Eyes" is a 1971 hit single by the English rock band the Moody Blues. Written by the band's guitarist Justin Hayward, it was first released as a single with "My Song" on the B-side, and then on the 1971 album Every Good Boy Deserves Favour shortly after.
"Hide Away" or "Hideaway" is a blues guitar instrumental that has become "a standard for countless blues and rock musicians performing today". [1] First recorded in 1960 by Freddie King, the song became a hit on the record charts. It has been interpreted and recorded by numerous blues and other musicians and has been recognized by the Rock and ...
It is a twelve-bar blues in 6 8; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a ♭ VI in the turnaround instead of just the usual V chord. In the composition's original key of G this chord is an E ♭ 7. "All Blues" is an example of modal blues in G Mixolydian. [2] [clarification needed]
East-West is the second album by the American blues rock band the Butterfield Blues Band, released in 1966 on the Elektra label. [a] It peaked at No. 65 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and is regarded as highly influential by rock and blues music historians.