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Live In San Juan Capistrano (album)
''Live in San Juan Capistrano'' is a live album by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues, recorded in San Juan Capistrano, California in April 1998 and released that same year. The live set featured Gordon Marshall, Mickey Féat and Paul Bliss. The CD is edited, with some songs omitted, though the VHS (1998) / DVD (2002) version of the concert is complete. Track listing All songs written by Justin Hayward unless noted. # "Your Wildest Dreams" – 4:07 # "Lost and Found" – 2:59 # "The Land of Make-Believe" – 2:25 # "Blue Guitar" – 2:29 # "Children of Paradise" (Hayward, Mickey Feat) – 3:14 # "Troubadour" – 4:03 # "The Way of the World" – 4:55 # " Forever Autumn" (Wayne, Osborne, Vigrass) – 4:20 # " The Actor" – 4:59 # "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Ray Thomas) – 4:29 # "Something to Believe In" (Phil Palmer, Paul Bliss) – 4:10 # "Broken Dream" – 6:29 # "The Story in Your Eyes" – 5:25 # "Billy" – 6:09 # "It's Not Too Late" – 4:53 # "Tuesday Afternoon" †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Hayward
David Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the rock band the Moody Blues. Hayward became the group's principal lead guitarist and vocalist over the 1967–1974 period, and the most prolific songwriter and composer of several international hit singles for the band. Hayward wrote singles for the Moody Blues including " Nights in White Satin", " Tuesday Afternoon", " Voices in the Sky", "Never Comes the Day", "Question", "The Story in Your Eyes", "Driftwood", "The Voice", " Blue World", "Your Wildest Dreams", "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" and "English Sunset"; in all, writing 20 of the group's 27 post-1967 singles. He also has a solo career. His first album outside the Moody Blues, '' Blue Jays'', a collaboration with John Lodge, reached the UK top five in 1975. The single "Blue Guitar", recorded with 10cc as the backing band, reached the UK top ten in 1975, and his 1978 recording of " Forev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The View From The Hill (album)
''The View from the Hill'' is a solo album released in 1996 by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues. Track listing All songs written by Justin Hayward unless noted. #"I Heard It" - 5:37 #"Broken Dream" - 5:52 #"The Promised Land" (Paul Bliss, Phil Palmer) - 7:26 #"It's Not Too Late" - 5:02 #"Something to Believe In" (Paul Bliss, Phil Palmer) - 4:22 #"The Way of the World" - 5:08 #"Sometimes Less Is More" (Dennis Lambert, Hayward) - 4:08 #"Troubadour" - 6:34 #"Shame" - 4:35 #"Billy" - 7:00 #"Children of Paradise" (Hayward, Mickey Féat) - 3:15 Personnel *Justin Hayward - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals *Elio Rivagli - Drums, Percussion *Mickey Feat - Bass, Vocals *Paul Bliss - Keyboards, Pre-Production *Phil Palmer - Guitar, Vocals *Geoffrey Richardson - Voila, Mandolin, Various Pipes *Helen Liebmann - Cello *Tessa Niles Tessa Margaret Niles ( ''née'' Webb; born 27 January 1961 in Ilford, Essex) is an English singer, best known as a backing singer for a wide variety of contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirits Of The Western Sky
''Spirits of the Western Sky'' is a solo album by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues. It was Hayward's first solo album since his 1996 album '' The View from the Hill''. Background The album was recorded in Genoa in Italy and in Nashville. On it, Hayward explores new areas – country and bluegrass on tracks like "What You Resist Persists", "Broken Dream" from ''The View from the Hill'' and "It’s Cold Outside of Your Heart" from The Moody Blues' 1983 album ''The Present''. Orchestration on the album is by Anne Dudley, an English composer and pop musician who has worked in both classical and pop genres. She is particularly known as a core member of the synthpop band Art of Noise, and as a film composer. Hayward co-wrote the song "On The Road To Love" with Kenny Loggins. The two artists were both on the road at that time and they were staying at the same hotel. Loggins also plays and sings on the track. The bluegrass cover track of "It's Cold Outside Of Your Heart" was orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moody Blues
The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964, initially consisting of keyboardist Mike Pinder, multi-instrumentalist Ray Thomas, guitarist Denny Laine, drummer Graeme Edge and bassist Clint Warwick. The group came to prominence playing rhythm and blues. They made some changes in musicians but settled on a line-up of Pinder, Thomas, Edge, guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge, who stayed together for most of the band's "classic era" into the early 1970s. Edge was the group’s sole continuous member throughout their entire history. Their second album, ''Days of Future Passed'', which was released in 1967, was a fusion of rock with classical music which established the band as pioneers in the development of art rock and progressive rock. It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums". The group toured extensively through the early 1970s, then took an extended hiatus from 1974 until 1977. Founder Mike Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan Capistrano, California
San Juan Capistrano (Spanish for "St. John of Capistrano") is a city in Orange County, California, located along the Orange Coast. The population was 34,593 at the 2010 census. San Juan Capistrano was founded by the Spanish in 1776, when St. JunÃpero Serra established Mission San Juan Capistrano. Extensive damage caused by the 1812 Capistrano earthquake caused the community to decline. Following the Mexican secularization act of 1833, the mission village officially became a town and was briefly renamed as San Juan de Argüello. Following the American Conquest of California, San Juan remained a small, rural town until the 20th century; the restoration of the mission in the 1910–20s transformed the town into a tourist destination and a backdrop for Hollywood films. History Indigenous The region was populated by the Acjachemen, referred to by the Spanish as ''Juaneños'', an Indigenous Californian nation. They lived in the area for approximately 10,000 years, with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Wildest Dreams
"Your Wildest Dreams" is a 1986 single by the progressive rock band the Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward. The song was first released as a single, and later released on the Moody Blues' 1986 album '' The Other Side of Life''. Written by Hayward as a lookback toward his first love, the song features a synth-pop style that marked a stylistic departure from the band's standard lush pop sound. When released as a single, "Your Wildest Dreams" became the band's second biggest US hit, reaching number nine on the American charts. Background Moody Blues singer and guitarist Justin Hayward was inspired to write "Your Wildest Dreams" after reminiscing about his first love. Of the song's lyrics, he stated, "For me, wanting to know about the first girl you ever fell in love with, really fell in love with and broke her heart, you always want to know, I wonder what happened. I wonder where they are. Hop in to that time machine." According to Hayward, the song set off a "personal journey" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forever Autumn (song)
"Forever Autumn" is a song written by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass,and sung by Justin Hayward. The original melody was written by Wayne in 1969 as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Vigrass and Osborne, the performers of the original jingle, added lyrics to the song and recorded it for inclusion on their 1972 album ''Queues''. Their interpretation was also released as a single and gained moderate commercial success in Japan, selling more than 100,000 copies and becoming a top-20 hit on the country's record chart. The best-known version is the recording by Justin Hayward from the album ''Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds''. Wayne wanted to include a love song on the album that sounded like "Forever Autumn", and he decided that the best course of action was to simply use the original song. Wayne chose Hayward, of The Moody Blues, to sing it saying that he "wanted that voice from 'Nights in White Satin'". It was recorded at London's Advision Studios i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Actor (The Moody Blues Song)
''In Search of the Lost Chord'' is the third album by The Moody Blues, released in July 1968 on the Deram label. Content ''In Search of the Lost Chord'' is a concept album around a broad theme of quest and discovery, including world exploration (" Dr. Livingstone, I Presume"), music and philosophy through the ages ("House of Four Doors"), lost love (" The Actor"), spiritual development ("Voices in the Sky"), knowledge in a changing world ("Ride My See-Saw"), higher consciousness ("Legend of a Mind"), imagination ("The Best Way to Travel"), and space exploration ("Departure"). Space exploration would go on to become the theme of the group's 1969 album ''To Our Children's Children's Children'', inspired by and dedicated to the Apollo 11 mission. The mysterious "lost chord" of the title is revealed to be the mantra " Om" (in the last stanza of Graeme Edge's poem "The Word"). According to keyboardist Mike Pinder, the title was inspired by Jimmy Durante's humorous song "I'm the Guy t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watching And Waiting
"Watching and Waiting" is a 1969 single by the progressive rock band the Moody Blues, and was written by band members Justin Hayward and Ray Thomas. Release The song was first released as a single in October 1969, and was later released in November 1969 on the album ''To Our Children's Children's Children''. Interviewed in 2014, the song's vocalist Justin Hayward said: I think ''To Our Children’s Children’s Children'' 969is the one Moodies album that didn't come across on the radio. It didn't jump; it was soft, it was quiet. Everybody was so delicate with it and handling it with kid gloves. The way it was mastered was quiet, and the way it was transferred to disc was delicate. In the end, it ended up getting a little lost. Watching and Waiting — when we heard that song in its studio beauty, we thought, "This is it! All of those people who had been saying to us for the past 3 or 4 years, "You'll probably just do another Nights in White Satin with it" — no! We had shivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Thomas
Raymond Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English multi-instrumentalist, flautist, singer, founding member and composer in the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single "Nights in White Satin" is regarded as one of progressive rock's defining moments. In 2018, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues. Career Early years Thomas was born at an emergency maternity unit set up during the Second World War in Lickhill Manor, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His father's family was from the southwest corner of Wales. His grandfather was a Welsh miner and went on to become a carpenter and a wood-carver, at one stage working on the church where Thomas later got married. His father taught him at the age of nine to play harmonica, and this sparked his interest in music. He joined the school choir a year later. He quit schooling at the age of 14, and bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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