401:"It was to do with the fact that we'd achieved great success in the United States and we were playing a lot of student venues and colleges, and the student audience was our audience. We were mixing with these people and seeing how different the problems were for them and the issues in being a member of the greatest nation on earth: the United States. How different they were from British people. I was just expressing my frustration around that, around the problems of anti-war and things that really concerned them, and for their own future that they may be conscripted, drafted. How that would morally be a dilemma for them and that kind of stuff. So it did really come out of that. And my own particular anger at what was happening. After a decade of peace and love, it still seemed we hadn't made a difference in 1970. I suppose that was the theme of the song. And then the slow part of the song is really a reflection of that and not feeling defeated, but almost a quiet reflection of it, and mixing with a bit of a love song, as well."
405:"Question" was arranged shortly before the recording session. Hayward had been struggling to finalize two different songs that happened to be in the same key, and decided to present the two songs as a single work. He remembers, "That was a song written under pressure. There was a Moody session set at Decca studios on a Saturday. At midnight that Friday I still didn't have anything for the session the next day. I had parts of two songs that were in the same key but were vastly different. About four o'clock in the morning I thought, 'Oh shit, all I can do is try to put them together and make them work, somehow.' I took it into the studio the next morning and I played it to the guys and they said, 'That's great!' They never even thought about it being two songs. There is a lot of social commentary in that song. I was reflecting what was happening in the college circuit that we were playing at the time."
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we can be better, the kinds of things we can leave behind and move forward. The planet earth has its problems, and people live in the left side of their brain. And the right side of the brain is where creativity takes place. Ingenuity, ideas, concepts — all those things come through on the right side of the brain. I've always looked at it that way, from a spiritual point of view, as opposed to a religious point of view. There's a vast, vast difference. And so the emotions were really all about love and peace and everything, but also about intelligence and about consciousness. Trying to wake people up from bad habits. Bad habits in my book are something that hurt other people, innocent people."
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throughout the album: "Oh, they were really superb. Derek
Varnals — I have to credit him with my guitar sound in the early days. On those early records, I played acoustic and electric. He captured all of that just beautifully. I'd put the acoustic lines down first, and then we'd do the electric stuff, maybe with the other guys playing at the same time. There's a song called "It's Up to You" where he suddenly nailed it down."
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being melancholy. I used that as a way of saying that there are different levels of melancholy, and that this was a melancholy for the whole world because of the impending breakdown of the structure in all things that we have seen happen since the song came out. What we're seeing now is just more
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in the cover collage. The image was of Snell wearing a pith helmet, holding a pistol and pointing it at an elephant. After the album was released, Snell sued Decca
Records and the band over the image, saying it was "a source of constant embarrassment over being on the cover." Travers, with the
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holiday, basking in the sunshine with presumably not a care in the world. They just don't notice what's coming up at them and probably won't until it's too late. It's just a symbolic way of putting over what most of us do - we bury our heads until it's too late."
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2408:Discography
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2004:The Present
1904:Denny Laine
1875:Mike Pinder
1868:Graeme Edge
1765:16 December
1624:16 December
1565:Kent, David
1180:16 December
1152:16 December
885:Tony Clarke
883:Producer -
860:Mike Pinder
854:Graeme Edge
711:Lead vocals
658:Graeme Edge
620:Mike Pinder
582:Lead vocals
505:Album cover
477:Tony Clarke
418:Tony Clarke
383:Mike Pinder
179:Tony Clarke
2449:Categories
2324:Blue World
2018:Sur la Mer
1896:John Lodge
1882:Ray Thomas
1129:References
1113:1,000,000
862:- vocals,
848:Ray Thomas
842:John Lodge
664:John Lodge
639:Ray Thomas
429:John Lodge
352:Background
188:chronology
58:April 2024
50:Wikisource
2433:Blue Jays
2310:The Voice
2296:Driftwood
2159:Anthology
1913:Rod Clark
1742:Billboard
1735:Billboard
1110:Platinum
1095:Platinum
1053:Hitlisten
1046:position
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1009:UK Albums
948:Hitlisten
915:position
875:Technical
864:Mellotron
825:Personnel
708:Writer(s)
579:Writer(s)
538:Promotion
463:Recording
433:the fable
410:Fort Knox
333:(unrated)
167:Threshold
139:folk rock
46:Wikiquote
33:contains
2254:Question
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1567:(1993).
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695:Side two
595:Question
566:Side one
546:and the
395:Question
291:AllMusic
252:Question
174:Producer
124:, London
110:Recorded
102:Released
92: by
2183:Singles
2131:Prelude
1689:10 July
1083:/sales
1074:Region
766:Hayward
763:Hayward
728:Hayward
725:Hayward
605:Hayward
526:Release
377:Writing
235:Singles
221:(1971)
212:(1970)
203:(1969)
2191:Go Now
1990:Octave
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787:Pinder
784:Pinder
714:Length
643:Thomas
624:Pinder
585:Length
285:Rating
282:Source
145:Length
118:Studio
1737:200)"
1220:4 May
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705:Title
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680:Lodge
576:Title
437:Aesop
237:from
162:Label
130:Genre
122:Decca
2166:Gold
1767:2017
1691:2024
1657:ISBN
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1573:ISBN
1222:2020
1196:link
1182:2017
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