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"Legend of a Mind" is one of the Moody Blues' longer songs, lasting about six and a half minutes, with a two-minute flute solo by Ray Thomas, in the middle.. During the 1980s, Thomas and keyboardist Patrick Moraz (who joined the band in 1978, replacing Mike Pinder) modified the live performance of the song by composing a flute and keyboard duet as part of the flute solo.
"Legend of a Mind", the first song written for the album, dates from the Days of Future Passed sessions. It was inspired by the LSD advocacy of Timothy Leary . Hayward remembered, "Some of us in the band — and this was 1966, '67 — were going through our own psychic experiences, as a lot of musicians were at the time, probably being led by ...
The band's next album, 1968's In Search of the Lost Chord, included "Legend of a Mind", a song written by Ray Thomas in tribute to LSD guru Timothy Leary which encompassed a flute solo performed by Thomas – four members of the group had taken LSD together for the first time in early 1967. Lodge provided a two-part song "House of Four Doors ...
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"Legend of a Mind" In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) 6:35: 8. "House of Four Doors (Parts 1 & 2)" In Search of the Lost Chord (1968, two separate tracks combined together for Time Traveller) 6:00: 9. "Voices in the Sky" In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) 3:29: 10. "The Best Way to Travel" In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) 3:13: 11. "The Actor"
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 song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
"Voices in the Sky" is a 1968 hit single by the progressive rock band the Moody Blues, written by their lead guitarist Justin Hayward. [1] It was released as a UK single in June 1968, with "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" on the B-side.