After the Moody Blues restyled themselves from rhythm and blues-flavored “Go Now” hitmakers to pensive album music creators with Days Of Future Handed, the late Sixties introduced wealthy rewards. That was very true with their two main LP successes inside a couple of months in 1969, On The Threshold Of A Dream and To Our Kids’s Kids’s Kids.
In the event that they’d questioned whether or not they might keep such pre-eminence within the new decade, the reply was that 1970 noticed the Moodies go from power to power. On the finish of Could, Justin Hayward’s highly effective, episodic “Question” grew to become their largest UK hit because the “Go Now” days at No.2, the next peak than they’d ever obtain there once more.
The brand new album containing that hit, A Query of Stability, was a brand new path for the Moodies in that its songs didn’t share an overriding theme, as on earlier albums — and in that, remarkably, the band went into the studio with nothing prepared, rising 5 weeks later with the grasp tapes.
“Our songs are about what happens to everybody,” John Lodge advised Report Mirror quickly after the album was launched. “We might get around to a lot more places, but we have the same experience as everybody else, and that’s what we write about.”
Stability was launched on August 7 and jumped onto the UK chart at No.3, as Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water continued its apparently unstoppable run on the high. That album was not solely in its fifth consecutive week at No.1 however had spent 22 of its 26 chart weeks on the summit.
What’s extra, if anybody was going to overtake Paul and Artwork, it seemed like it will be Elvis Presley, whose On Stage, February 1970 climbed 5-2. However that was reckoning with out the power of the Moody Blues’ reputation. On August 22, A Query of Stability started a three-week reign at No.1 within the UK; in America, it climbed to No.3 and would finally go platinum.
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