Seventh Sojourn
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| Seventh Sojourn | ||
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| Studio album by The Moody Blues | ||
| Released | November 1972 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 39:29 | |
| Label | Deram / Polydor | |
| Producer(s) | Tony Clarke | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Moody Blues chronology | ||
| Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971) |
Seventh Sojourn (1972) |
Caught Live + 5 (1977) |
Seventh Sojourn, released in 1972, was the seventh album released by The Moody Blues.
In Seventh Sojourn, The Moody Blues replaced the Mellotron with a keyboard called the Chamberlin, a device similar to the Mellotron created by the original inventor of the device, Harry Chamberlin. It could simulate orchestral sounds more realistically and easily than the Mellotron.
Two hit singles came from this album: "Isn't Life Strange" and "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)." However, both songs were overshadowed in the United States by "Nights in White Satin," which had its first single release in the U.S. in 1968. Whereas both singles from Seventh Sojourn merely made the top 40, "Nights" hit # 2, which was the highest chart position for a Moody Blues single.
On this album, the band made two strong political references. "Lost In A Lost World" alluded to the brutality of revolution ("Revolution never won/It's just another form of gun") and racial tension ("In their eyes it's nation, against nation, against nation/With racial pride"). "You And Me," like "Question" from two years earlier, alludes to the Vietnam War: "There's a leafless tree in Asia."
As this album proved hard to record, the group decided to go on hiatus for five years starting in 1973 before reuniting for Octave in 1978 and its subsequent tour (without Mike Pinder).
Seventh Sojourn was remastered in 1997 and rerelased along with the other six albums the Moody Blues recorded from 1967 to 1972.
[edit] Track listing
- "Lost in a Lost World" (Mike Pinder) – 4:42
- "New Horizons" (Justin Hayward) – 5:11
- "For My Lady" (Ray Thomas) – 3:58
- "Isn't Life Strange" (John Lodge) – 6:09
- "You and Me" (Hayward/Graeme Edge) – 4:21
- "The Land of Make-Believe" (Hayward) – 4:52
- "When You're a Free Man" (Pinder) – 6:06
- "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band)" (Lodge) – 4:18
| The Moody Blues |
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| Justin Hayward | John Lodge | Graeme Edge Former members: Ray Thomas | Mike Pinder | Patrick Moraz | Denny Laine | Clint Warwick |
| Discography |
| Studio Albums: The Magnificent Moodies | Days of Future Passed | In Search of the Lost Chord | On the Threshold of a Dream | To Our Children's Children's Children | A Question of Balance | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Seventh Sojourn | Octave | Long Distance Voyager | The Present | The Other Side of Life | Sur La Mer | Keys of the Kingdom | Strange Times | December |
| Live: Caught Live + 5 | A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra | Hall Of Fame: Live at the Royal Albert Hall | Lovely To See You |
| Compilations: This is The Moody Blues | Greatest Hits | Prelude | Time Traveller (Box Set) | An Introduction to The Moody Blues |
