Flashback Friday: Nights In White Satin

 

First released as the segment, "The Night" on the album, "Days of Future Passed" by the
English rock band The Moody Blues in 1967, the strange and surreal, "Nights In White Satin"
was written by band member Justin Hayward while the band was touring in Belgium.

An elegy of love lost, and yearning from afar, Hayward said his song, "...was just
  another song I was writing and I thought it was very powerful.  It was a very
personal song, and every note, every word in it means something to me, and
  I found that a lot of other people have felt the very same way about it."

 

When this song was reissued in 1972, it stayed at Number 2 for two
  weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and at Number 1 on the Cash Box Top 100,
  making it the band's most successful single in the United States, 
with sales of over two million copies that year.

 "Nights In White Satin" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. 

"The Night"
Nights In White Satin
(1967, 1972)
The Moody Blues
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