House of Four Doors - Part 1" is melodically not super strong and even gives sway to a bit of hokeyness, A recorded but unreleased Pinder song from this time (1967) was the jazz-blues ballad "Please Think About It", which would later be included on the Caught Live + 5 double album issued by Decca in 1977.

the 1980s, which they exploited with a vengeance, had not yet arrived. I do know they were not happy with the result, and neither am I. The Moody Blues toured the UK and US in 2015, culminating in a début appearance at the Glastonbury Festival on 27 June. [61] [62] Delving deeper, I note that the Expanded Edition has the 2008 publishing trademark whereas the standard version is listed as 1978. It’s incredibly frustrating when this happens and I do wish that the record label and Apple Music would offer a more detailed explanation of which edition is derived from which master because both versions are noticeably different. They’re both lovely, in their own right, but you’ll find that you prefer one over the other and it would simply be nice to know more details about a particular release. Chapman, Rob (17 September 2015). "The Moody Blues – psychedelia's forgotten heroes". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016 . Retrieved 22 August 2016.In 1999, the Moody Blues appeared in The Simpsons episode Viva Ned Flanders. [56] In the following year they released Hall of Fame, a new live album from a concert at the Royal Albert Hall (with the World Festival Orchestra), with a concurrent DVD release. This was taken from the last tour on which Boshell played. He left the live line-up in 2001; Bliss took over first keyboard duties, with his former second keyboard role filled by Bernie Barlow, with Julie Ragins replacing Barlow when she took maternity leave from 2006 to 2009.

The Moody Blues almost became a brand new band when Justin Hayward and John Lodge replaced the original The Day We Meet Again is the perfect closer to an exceptional album. It’s simply incredible and is a sonic pleasure for the ears. While ballads are certainly a trademark of The Moody Blues, this one leaves you both in a contemplative mood as well as being interested in spinning the album again. Such a song is a rarity but when they exist, it results in a cohesive album experience; one worthy of The Moody Blues.

Pinder, Mike. "History of the Mellotron". mikepinder.com. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007.

hiatus for much of the rest of the 1970s (though they were actively touring as late as 1974), which was probably a savvy been fully involved in the band's later years, which is a pity in my opinion). I figured out from the words of JustinFrom here, they waste no time to get into the lovely "Visions of Paradise", a reeds-ready number co- Seventh Sojourn' with modern instruments and production techniques. The result, inevitably, was failure. Far better to assess what they had in 1978 and When listening to modern releases, or remastered reissues, we usually experience a loud reproduction of the music contained within. That isn’t the case with the Lossless Apple Music stream. While not presented as a Hi-Res Lossless stream, or an Apple Digital Master, the mastering, on this particular release, allows the listener to turn the volume up to their preferred setting. Subsequently, you’ll be met with a full-bodied sound that is thoroughly enjoyable. Could it be better? Perhaps, and there are examples such as when listening to Top Rank Suite where I’d love to hear the brass elements come alive a little more, but it’s a minor quibble and doesn’t detract from the overall experience of the album. It’s also possible that that aspect could be corrected in the mix rather than mastering stages. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour became the band's second consecutive, and third overall, No. 1 album in the UK and reached No. 2 in the US, their highest album chart placement there so far. They might have been far away from the cutting edge of prog - this came out the same year as Nursery Cryme, Tarkus,