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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.
The Moody Bluegrass project is a group of Nashville artists who have recorded two tribute albums of Moody Blues songs in the bluegrass style. The first album, Moody Bluegrass – A Nashville Tribute to the Moody Blues , was released in 2004.
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the progressive rock band the Moody Blues, released in 1989.The band recorded new versions of "Isn't Life Strange" and "Question" with orchestration by the London Symphony Orchestra. [2]
The Moody Blues recorded two songs about Leary. "Legend of a Mind", written and sung by Ray Thomas on their album In Search of the Lost Chord (1968), begins: "Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, no, he's outside looking in". [197] The second was "When You're a Free Man" on the Seventh Sojourn album. [198]
The United Kingdom edition had 12 songs, while the United States release had only 10 in a different order. The editions released in the United States and Canada also had a different cover than the UK and European versions. This compilation was the final release by the Moody Blues' custom label, Threshold Records.
The Best of The Moody Blues is a compilation album by the British progressive rock band The Moody Blues, released on 23 September 1996. The album marked the first time the band's only UK No. 1 single, 1964's " Go Now ", was included on an official Moody Blues compilation album.
Thomas's previous outspoken sympathy for LSD advocate Timothy Leary, as expressed in his song "Legend of a Mind", along with coincidental drug-related slang terms current at the time involving words such as "candy" and "rock," led some Americans to see in "Floating" a coded encouragement to use drugs. [2]
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.