John1948NineC's video: Moody Blues - Go Now 1965 New Musical Express Concert Wembly Eng

Conceptual geniuses or pretentious schmucks? This was actually a debate during the late '60s/early '70s. Truth is, after their debut LP--which had much more to do with the blues and less with moods--the Moody Blues were the kings of the "concept" LPs. Often it was almost like you wanted to scream in the middle of Moody Blues album: "What has Sgt. Pepper's wrought?" The band had numerous songwriters in its ranks in the forms of Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, and Justin Hayward--and while the group was responsible for the "progressive" rock sounds that followed by the likes of Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, etc., they still had genuine rockin' moments in classic singles like "Story In Your Eyes" and "I'm Just A Singer In A Rock 'N' Roll Band." The Moodies were one of the hippie-dippy units of the era; their concepts were tied into the idea of "mind expansion" and drugs (they even recorded a tribute song to Timothy Leary in 1968), and really went overboard with the Eastern mysticism stuff (going as far as releasing a track called "Om"). One of the biggest live draws of the time, the group disbanded in '73 before coming back in '78 to resume a career that's more or less seen them thrive as touring nostalgic unit. "Nights in White Satin" is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward and first featured on the album Days of Future Passed. Contents When first released in 1967, the song reached # 19 on the UK singles chart, a position that might have been higher were it not for its seven-plus minute length. The song was re-released in 1972 after the success of such longer-running dramatic songs as "Hey Jude" and "Layla", and it charted at on Billboard magazine and on Cash Box in the United States, earning a gold single for sales of a million copies and was also in Canada. The song also holds the dubious distinction of the highest complete Hot 100 disappearance from the pre-digital download era, vanishing entirely from the chart after falling to . It was also released in Spanish as Noches de Seda at the same time. In the wake of its US success, the song re-charted in the UK in late 1972 and climbed to . The song was re-released yet again in 1979, and charted for a third time in the UK, at . There are two single versions of the song, both stripped of the orchestral and "Late Lament" poetry sections of the LP version. The first edited version, with the songwriter's credit shown as "Redwave", was a hasty sounding 3:06 version of the LP recording with very noticeable chopped parts. For the second edited version (with the song's writing credited to Hayward), the early parts of the song were kept intact, ending early at 4:26. Both single versions were backed with a non-LP b-side, "Cities". SOURCE: http://www.bandbiographies.com/moody_blues/biography.htm PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads among multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: http://john1948.wikifoundry.com/page/John1948%27s+Youtube+Index