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Written by band flautist Ray Thomas, "Floating" is a jaunty, semi-children's song about a future in which advances in space travel have enabled the Moon to become a family vacation spot.
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 ...
Days of Future Passed is the second studio album by English progressive rock band the Moody Blues by Deram Records. [8] It has been cited by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and others as one of the earliest albums of the progressive rock genre and one of rock music's first concept albums.
However, it didn't turn out anything like Status Quo: it just sounded like the Moody Blues. [ 1 ] According to producer Pip Williams , "This was a serious happening track from Day One...There is something very seductive – musically – about songs that comprise any form of suspended chord structure of 'hanging in the air' feeling."
Hayward reflects on this songwriting process at the time: "A song is a song. There are specific Moody Blues songs that start in that quiet way. I've had so many small parts of songs that I've just enjoyed playing, and it takes me a while to realize: 'This is a song. If I just work at it a bit more, I've got a whole song here.'
Moody Blues biographer Marc Cushman described the lyrics as "more of those mystical, spiritually inclined, highly interpretable Moody Blues lyrics. [1] Philadelphia Daily News critic Jonathan Takiff said that in the lyrics Lodge "still is promoting his nose-to-the-grindstone keep-on-pushin' philosophy."
[5] Moody Blues biographer Marc Cushman described the song as a "gentle and lovely song [that] is surprisingly punctuated by louder-than-expected drum rolls from Graeme Edge. [6] Musicologist Walter Everett believed that "Dawning Is the Day" was modeled on the Beatles' " Mother Nature's Son ", particularly citing the " chromatic descent over ...
"Isn't Life Strange" is a 1972 single by the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues Written by bassist John Lodge, it was the first of two singles released from their 1972 album Seventh Sojourn, with the other being "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)", also written by Lodge.