My best friend from high school, Jim A, was so into the Moody Blues, and I’m grateful because he got me into them too. I learned their entire catalog by hanging out with him. Later Jim came up from Florida with my brother Jeff (name sake of JSOD) to be the best man at my wedding. That all feels like a hundred years ago.
”Tuesday Afternoon” and “Nights in White Satin” are the two songs most people know from Days of Future Past, but the whole album is a work of art that really should be experienced in its entirety, starting at “The Day Begins” and winding up with today’s Song of the Day. The entire album, accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, is a thematic whole.
It came out two months after I was born, and I heard it and instantly fell in love with it 17 years later. Thank you, Jim. Sorry about the twee photo, but you stood by me like a Knight in white . . . I suppose fake satin and polyester, in this case.
Here is a “more recent” live version of this classic.
Jeff's Song of the Day 