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2020-02-06 10:14:00
I don't understand it, but it's great and we will sell it
[…] Justin Hayward as follows*: [Sir Edward Lewis] was the last man I knew in this business with the authority, and with the confidence in an artist, to be able to stand there and say, 'Boys, I don't know exactly what it is you're doing, and I don't understand it, but it's great, and you just do it the best you can. And we will sell it'. Quote comes via Marc Cushman's encyclopedic history of the Moody Blues Long Distance Voyagers: Volume 1 (1965-1979). New Overgrown Path posts are available via RSS/email by entering your email address in the right-hand sidebar. Any copyrighted material is included for critical analysis, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).
2019-04-23 16:45:00
Higher and higher
[…] pioneering 1967 album Days of Future Passed was played on board the Atlantis shuttle space craft by chief astronaut “Hoot” Gibson. He later presented the band with the actual recording of the album that he had carried on four shuttle trips. Band member Justin Hayward later wryly commented: “That was nice, and receiving it from NASA in the original cassette version, which I noticed they illegally recorded, made it even better somehow”. Sources include Marc Cushman's encyclopedic history of the Moody Blues Long Distance Voyagers: Volume 1 (1965-1979). New Overgrown Path posts are available via RSS/email by entering your email address in the right-hand sidebar. Any copyrighted material is included for critical analysis, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).
2018-07-02 07:50:00
On the threshold of a nightmare
Reading Marc Cushman's overview of the Moody Blues' most fructiferous period Long Distance Voyagers prompted me to return to the band's 1969 On The Threshold Of A Dream album. The perceptivity of the lyrics of the opening track In the Beginning is not entirely coincidental: session engineer Derek Varnals explains in the book that "Back in those days, about the only thing that was computerized were banks, which was the concept of what [Graham] Edge was writing about". This computerization of banks spawned the database technologies that power today's surveillance culture. So this late-60s lyric presages the insidious data harvesting of social media corporations: I've milesAnd milesOf filesPretty files of your forefather's fruitAnd now to suit ourGreat computer,You're magnetic ink. Long Distance Voyagers is much more than a priceless gold mine of Moody Blues trivia. As a snapshot of a zeitgeist, it provides much food for thought. Yes, […]
2018-06-27 08:00:00
Return to print
Long Distance Voyagers is a 796 page resource book about the Moody Blues rock band. Surprisingly given the high profile of the band - they have sold more than 80 million records and were one of the pioneers of the concept album and of classic rock - this is the first major volume devoted to their oeuvre. The book is the labour of love of Marc Cushman, who is best known for his monumental books analysing Star Trek and Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space series. This latest massive volume is equally monumental - it is only volume one taking the story of the band up to 1979.Recently I have been impressed and rewarded by several major historical books about art music icons, including the Nick Drake anthology Remembered For A While. This comes from long-established publishing house John Murray, and has commensurate high design values and sharp sub-editing. Long Distance […]
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