| The Moody Blues. 1967. New
York: PolGram Records. [Deram 820 006-2] |
| Released 11 November 1967. |
| Executive Producer: Hugh Mendl. Producer: Tony Clarke. Music Director: Peter Knight. Engineer: Derek Varnals. |
| Hugh Mendl (liner notes to
Days of Future Passed) |
| In Days of Future
Passed the Moody Blues have at last done what many others have dreamed
of and talked about: they have extended the range of pop music, and found
the point where it becomes one with the world of the classics. |
| Here, where emotion
and creativity blend — where poetry, the beat group and the symphony orchestra
feed on each other’s inspiration — the Moodys have chosen to paint their
picture of everyman’s day, which takes nothing from the nostalgia for
the past — and adds nothing to the probabilities of the future. |
| For such a fusion of
pop composition and classical writing, it seemed obvious that the Deramic
Sound System would be the ideal recording technique. And here in DSS’s
deep, wide spectrum of 'all-round sound' it has, we believe, become more
possible than in any other way to be totally submerged — and hence totally
committed to such a deeply emotional statement of the human condition
today. |
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| The concept of this "concept
album" (with surrealistic cover art by David Anstey) took Lennon's "A
Day in the Life" a step further. They composed songs around the idea of
a day in the life of a Londoner. The cover includes symbols of time: the
phases of the moon, plants in various stages of their life cycle, an hour
class, the numbers 1-12 (as in the hours on a clock face), and colors
we associate with day and night. |