The Moody Blues might have delivered a tally of three High 10 hits and 9 High 40 appearances of their native UK, however particularly of their second incarnation as a conceptual album rock outfit, they had been at all times way over a singles band. On August 20, 1983, on the eve of launch of their 11th studio album The Current, they entered the UK singles countdown with its lead monitor “Blue World.” It stays their most up-to-date High 40 single in their very own nation.
The swirling, atmospheric “Blue World” was a Justin Hayward composition and lead vocal, one in every of his three particular person credit on The Current. One other, “Running Water,” was the album’s third single, after the discharge of “Sitting At The Wheel,” one in every of John Lodge’s three credit. The singles schedule was reversed within the US, the place “Wheel” was the flagship single and reached No.27. Collectively, Hayward and Lodge wrote the album’s “Meet Me Halfway.” True to the group’s typical democratic rules, the LP additionally featured two songs by Ray Thomas and one by Graeme Edge.
A ten-year first
“Blue World” debuted on the UK chart at No.47 and, every week later, peaked at No.35, changing into the Moody Blues’ first High 40 look with a brand new track there since “I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock ’n’ Roll Band)” simply over ten years earlier. In between occasions, in late 1979, the evergreen “Nights In White Satin” had made its third go to to the High 20.
Additionally boasting the excellence of being the Moody Blues‘ first 12-inch single in the UK, “Blue World” reached No.62 in America. On that side of the Atlantic, the band had one of their finest commercial and creative achievements still to come, when “Your Wildest Dreams” climbed to No.9 on the Hot 100 in 1986. Inexplicably, this landmark in the group’s later historical past didn’t chart within the UK in any respect.
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