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"Question" is a 1970 single by the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. It was written by guitarist Justin Hayward, who provides lead vocals."Question" was first released as a single in April 1970 and remains their second highest-charting song in the UK, reaching number two and staying on the chart for 12 weeks.
[18] The song is sung by the band's four singers, though Edge made an attempt at singing the song during the sessions. "The Tortoise and the Hare", written by bassist John Lodge, takes direct inspiration from the fable by Aesop. He sees the song as a metaphor for the band: "It was really a sort of analogy, really, of the Moody Blues.
The album is a collection of songs without a conceptual theme, continuing the style of its two predecessors, A Question of Balance and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. According to John Lodge, "The album was very loosely based on the idea of The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. This is how Seventh Sojourn evolved: we told stories, but musically." [1]
"Procession" is the only Moody Blues song credited to the entire band (not counting the Redwave credit on Days of Future Passed). Lodge's contributions included "Emily's Song", written for his newly born daughter, while Thomas's reflective "Our Guessing Game" and whimsical "Nice to Be Here" offset the deeper drama of Hayward's "You Can Never Go ...
Part of the band poses a musical "question", or a phrase that feels unfinished, and another part of the band "answers" (finishes) it. In the blues, the B section often has a question-and-answer pattern (dominant-to-tonic). An example of this is the 1960 Christmas song "Must Be Santa":
The song is a ballad based on Hayward's acoustic guitar. [2] Allmusic critic Lindsay Planer described it as an example of the band's "slightly folksier sound." [5] Moody Blues biographer Marc Cushman described the song as a "gentle and lovely song [that] is surprisingly punctuated by louder-than-expected drum rolls from Graeme Edge. [6]
"Melancholy Man" is a song written by Mike Pinder that was first released on the Moody Blues' 1970 album A Question of Balance. It was also released as a single in some countries, but not in the UK or US, although in the US it was later released as the b-side of "The Story in Your Eyes".
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.