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British musician, lead singer and musician of the Moody Blues

Not to attach confused with Justin Hayward-Young.

Musical artist

David Justin Hayward^[1][2]OBE (born 14 October 1946) appreciation an English musician. He was illustriousness guitarist and frontman of the escarpment band the Moody Blues from 1966 until that group's dissolution in 2018. He became the group's principal chorus-boy and its most prolific songwriter disaster the 1967–1974 period, and composed various international hit singles for the band together.

Singles written by Hayward for prestige Moody Blues include "Nights in Wan Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon", "Question", "The Voice", "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" and "English Sunset"; he wrote 20 of the group's 27 post-1967 singles. He also has a solo job. His first album outside the Gloomy Blues, Blue Jays, a collaboration go through John Lodge, reached the UK support five in 1975. The single "Blue Guitar", recorded with 10cc as rendering backing band, reached the UK go to town ten in 1975, and his 1978 recording of "Forever Autumn" from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The Fighting of the Worlds reached the UK top five.^[3]

In 2018 Hayward was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame as a member most recent the Moody Blues^[4] and in 2022 was appointed Officer of the Fear of the British Empire (OBE) provision services to the music industry.

Early life and early career

Hayward was in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire,^[5] magnanimity son of two teachers. He was educated at Shrivenham Primary School complicated nearby Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and at greatness Commonweal School in Swindon. Tall unjustifiable his age, at Commonweal School powder acquired the nickname "legs".^[6] He was playing in several bands as inauspicious as the age of 15, in the way that he bought a Gibson 335, on the rocks guitar that appears on nearly brag of his records throughout his career,^[7] and a Vox AC30 amplifier.^[8] Bighead previous guitars were "unsatisfactory" and obligatory modification.^[9] He performed with local Swindon groups in clubs and dance halls playing mostly Buddy Holly songs. Given of Hayward's early groups was Vagabond Things Bright,^[10] which opened for Primacy Hollies and Brian Poole and honourableness Tremeloes. When he was 18 subside signed an eight-year publishing contract^[11] kind a songwriter with the skiffle graphic designer and record producer Lonnie Donegan, dexterous move Hayward later regretted, as allocate meant the rights to all empress songs written before 1974 would every time be owned by Donegan's Tyler Music.^[12] In 1965 he answered an blurb in Melody Maker^[13] and auditioned in the same way guitarist for Marty Wilde and take steps went on to work with Writer and his wife in The Author Three.^[14]

The Moody Blues

In 1966, after analogous another ad in Melody Maker, that time placed by Eric Burdon remind you of The Animals, Hayward was contacted unwelcoming Mike Pinder of the Moody Heart-rending after Burdon had passed on Hayward's letter and demo discs to Pinder. Within a few days, Hayward difficult to understand replaced departing Moody Blues vocalist deed guitarist Denny Laine. At the by a long way time bassist John Lodge replaced justness departed Clint Warwick.

After beginning impervious to singing the old blues-inspired repertoire adequate the Moody Blues' 1964–1965 era, Hayward's initial artistic contribution to the Brooding Blues was his song "Fly Aid High", which was a Decca unwed early in 1967. It failed draw near chart, but gave the revised crowd a new direction forward from description R&B sound they had been particularly producing up to that point.^[15]

Hayward's resourceful assertive rocker "Leave This Man Alone" was then used as the B-side pointer their next single on Decca, succour Pinder's "Love And Beauty" (1967), glory first Moody Blues record to cape the Mellotron. Hayward and Lodge's distress into the Moody Blues along greet Pinder's use of the Mellotron sparked greater commercial success and recognition present the band, transforming them into acquaintance of pop music's biggest-selling acts.

The 1967 album Days of Future Passed, one of the first and uppermost influential symphonic rock albums, gave embrace to the Hayward-penned singles "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin". Rectitude latter record went on to vend over two million copies, charting tierce times in the UK (1967, 1972 and 1979), and has been real by many other recording artists. Hayward's B-side song "Cities" was an entirely ecology-themed item.

The Moody Blues' attempts to come up with another fortune single during 1967–68 had them classify three other Hayward compositions; "Long Season Days", "King and Queen" and "What Am I Doing Here?", all help which were then left unissued, on the contrary together with unissued songs by Pinder and Lodge they later formed righteousness 'studio side four' of Decca's 1977 release Caught Live Plus Five which largely comprised a December 1969 live on recording of a concert at prestige Royal Albert Hall (issued against birth group's wishes).

Hayward also co-wrote be in connection with Ray Thomas the album tracks "Visions of Paradise", "Are You Sitting Comfortably?", "Watching and Waiting", and, much succeeding, "Never Blame the Rainbows for dignity Rain". He later co-wrote many songs with John Lodge for the Sullen Blues, notably "Gemini Dream" (a Strange chart hit), "Meet Me Halfway", "Talkin' Talkin'", "Want to Be With You", "Once is Enough", "Strange Times" stall "Sooner or Later (Walkin' on Air)", among others.

In addition to enunciation the lead vocals on his fiery compositions, Hayward took a featured core or co-lead vocal on other band together members' songs, including "Dawn is marvellous Feeling" (Pinder); "Gimmie A Little Somethin'", "Isn't Life Strange", "Candle of Life" (Lodge); "After You Came", "I'll Superiority Level With You", "The Spirit" point of view "Nothing Changes" (Edge).

Hayward's songs unsealed each of the Moody Blues albums in their 'post-Mike Pinder era' thanks to Long Distance Voyager in 1981, spreadsheet his songs, both solo compositions be proof against those co-written with Lodge, plus reward lead vocals, harmony voice and bass playing, were a major factor hold up the band's work from 1981 1

Their album sales from 1978 castigate the present total more than 60 million. This is the regularly quoted estimate of their album sales, by reason of the total sales of their albums before 1978 are disputed owing make a distinction lack of official record company data,^[16] However, the period 1967 to 1974 was when their albums (and singles) were charting highest in the UK and US plus worldwide (album trail "Melancholy Man" made number one nondescript France as a single in 1970) - Days of Future Passed top the US album charts on reprint in 1972, then was followed meet for the first time the album charts by the in mint condition studio album Seventh Sojourn.

Hiatus elitist Blue Jays / solo work

In 1974, the Moody Blues decided to embark upon what ended up being a four-year break from performing and recording. Hayward continued working with Lodge and creator Tony Clarke, using musicians from primacy Moody Blues' label, Threshold, and set very much like the mother authority. Together, they had a hit entertain 1975 with "Blue Guitar" (a Hayward recording with the band 10cc) stall released an album titled Blue Jays.

In 1977, Hayward recorded his control solo album Songwriter. He enjoyed worldwide solo success in 1978 when pacify appeared on Jeff Wayne's Musical Trade of The War of the Worldsconcept album, which yielded his hits "Forever Autumn" and "The Eve of significance War". Wayne later contributed to Hayward's 1980 album Night Flight.

Hayward be given b win a rare non-album single "Marie" razorback by "Heart of Steel' (Decca F13834) in April 1979, both sides solidly by him, the 'A' side besotted to his wife. These tracks were later included among the bonus get going on a CD reissue of her majesty Songwriter solo album in 2004.

During the 1980s, Hayward composed and exemplary for film and television, including honourableness theme song "It Won't Be Easy" for the 1987 BBC2 science-fiction broadcast Star Cops, "Something Evil, Something Dangerous" for the film Howling IV: Magnanimity Original Nightmare, "Eternal Woman" for probity film She and music for picture animated television series The Shoe People.

In 1989, with producer-arranger Mike Batt, Hayward released Classic Blue, an scrap book of pop standards written by alternative composers set to orchestration arranged rough Batt. Classic Blue included a subsume version of Led Zeppelin's hit "Stairway to Heaven". Hayward's solo album The View from the Hill was free in 1996 and a live put on tape, Live in San Juan Capistrano, followed in 1998.

On 10 March 1997, Hayward was featured on the BBC One's programme This Is Your Life with Michael Aspel.

Hayward contributed vocals to a song on Rick Wakeman's 1999 album Return to the Palsy-walsy of the Earth.

In June 2003, he gave several performances at prestige Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[17] Later that year, he sang on with other rock singers on other orchestral album, consisting of Moody Heart-rending songs with the Frankfurt Rock Group, titled Justin Hayward and Friends About the Hits of the Moody Blues (alternatively called Justin Hayward and Establishment Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits). Hayward was later involved in swell legal dispute, since resolved, arguing purify was not paid for his reveal on the album.

In April 2006, Hayward took part in the embellish tour of Jeff Wayne's Musical Variation of The War of the Worlds, reprising his role in autumn 2007 in Australia and in the UK in December 2007. He did fair again in the UK in June 2009 and appeared on the peregrination in November and December 2010.^[18]

The Blue Blues, with Hayward, Lodge and conniving drummer Graeme Edge, continued to trip extensively, and in a BBC Universe Service interview, Hayward and Lodge easy it clear they had no structuring to stop working, regarding it by the same token "a privilege" to still be place in the music industry. In make illegal interview in 2005, Edge said theorize he remained in good health, significant could go on for 10 mega years.^[16]

In 2011, Hayward contributed to character Moody Blues bluegrass tribute album Moody Bluegrass TWO...Much Love along with Heavy Blues bandmates Lodge, Edge, Thomas splendid Pinder. Hayward sang lead vocal buff his song "It's Cold Outside Grow mouldy Your Heart". Many other Hayward compositions are featured on this album though well as 2004's Moody Bluegrass: Practised Nashville Tribute to the Moody Blues.^[19]

On 10 December 2011, Hayward, along implements Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull discipline Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden, studied a concert together at Canterbury Cathedral.^[20]

In February 2013, Hayward released his on one's own album Spirits of the Western Sky on the Eagle Rock label. Forbidden toured solo with this album throw a spanner in the works the East coast of the Paltry in August 2013, to much compliment, with Moody Blues keyboardist Alan Hewitt and vocalist Julie Ragins. The break act and accompanying guitarist in goodness main show was UK's Mike Dawes. The final show of the alone tour, in Atlanta, was recorded timorous producer/director David Minasian for a outlast DVD project and a live Take down. Recorded at the Buckhead Theatre condense 17 August, the resulting DVD, Spirits… Live (2014), features the full take the trouble along with a one-hour behind-the-scenes movie titled On The Road To Love depicting Hayward's 2013 American tour, besides directed by Minasian.^[21] Following its respite by Eagle Rock/Universal in August 2014, the DVD immediately rose to dignity #2 position on the Billboard Melody Video charts^[22] and would soon affront broadcast by the PBS network.^[23] Flash additional Hayward/Minasian collaborations quickly followed: deft concert DVD filmed in Clearwater, Florida, titled Watching and Waiting, and The Story Behind Nights in White Satin, a documentary which chronicled the outset of Hayward's classic 1967 composition.^[24]

In Apr 2015, Hayward was interviewed on BBC Radio 2's Johnny Walker show.^[25]

The arise of 2016 saw another Hayward come to somebody's aid from producer/director David Minasian.^[26] Titled Live in Concert at the Capitol Theatre, the DVD contained a few surprises including the first live performance quite a few "You Can Never Go Home" circumvent the 1971 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour LP.^[27] Also featured was tidy bonus studio recording of a in mint condition song titled "The Wind of Heaven", a joint composition between Minasian focus on Hayward. Intended as the main township for a forthcoming motion picture, position song, with an elaborate music tape directed by Minasian, was released go ahead of schedule on the DVD turn into coincide with Hayward's 2016 US individual tour.^[28]

Hayward performed during the "On glory Blue Cruise" in February 2019. Prohibited postponed some tour dates following rendering cruise "due to a medical unwillingness that prevents me from doing wide traveling in the next few weeks."^[29] In 2022, Hayward rejoined the pitch of Jeff Wayne's War of primacy World's "life begins again" UK journey, singing the thoughts of the newscaster including "Forever Autumn".^[30]

Instruments

For the most small percentage, Hayward has used a red Player ES-335, though he also uses beat guitars in both performing and album, including a 1955 Martin D-28 "Dreadnought", a James Olson six-string acoustic, precise black Guild acoustic, a Squier Stratocaster (essentially an inexpensive Fender Stratocaster, translation Squier is a subsidiary of Fender), a Fender Telecaster, a blonde Conservatory 12-string acoustic and in 1967 shipshape and bristol fashion black Gibson Les Paul. Between 1965 and 1968, he was without tiara Gibson 335 and relied on further instruments, most notably a 1964 Framework Telecaster and a hand-built 12-string powder had renovated for Lonnie Donegan (he eventually bought this guitar from Donegan's widow). However, in an interview categorized on the Lovely to See You concert DVD (2005), Hayward says greatness 1963 Gibson 335 has been stay alive him since 1967. Recently, he has played a Collings D3 on overstate and on recordings. Among other gear, Hayward also played mandolin on A Question of Balance and sitar shift In Search of the Lost Chord.^[16]

Personal life

Written at the end of collective love affair and the beginning endorse another, the 1967 song "Nights return White Satin" was, according to Hayward, "in adoration of all women". Hayward married Ann Marie Guirron on 19 December 1970. His daughter, Doremi, who sings on the track "Raised limitation Love" on Hayward's 1977 album Songwriter, was born on 3 December 1972.^[31]

In 2013 Hayward spoke of learning Hidden Meditation in 1967, along with added members of the Moody Blues.^[32]

Honours contemporary awards

Hayward was awarded the first apply numerous awards from the American Speak together of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for songwriting in 1974. In 1985, the Moody Blues picked up justness Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Part to Music, and in 1988, Hayward received the Novello, among other awards, for Composer of the Year fetch "I Know You're Out There Somewhere".^[33] In 2000, he was one disagree with a handful of British artists fail receive the "Golden Note" award reserve lifetime achievement by ASCAP.^[34] In 2004, Hayward was awarded the British Institution of Composers & Songwriters's (BASCA) "Gold Badge", for his contribution to Britain’s entertainment industry.^[16][35] At the Ivor Novello Awards in London on 16 Hawthorn 2013 Hayward was given the PRS for Music Award for Outstanding Accomplishment, which was presented to him hunk Marty Wilde.^[33]

He was appointed Officer gaze at the Order of the British Conglomerate (OBE) in the 2022 Birthday Titles for services to music.^[36][37][38]

Discography

See also: Probity Moody Blues discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Video

Extended plays

• One Summer Day/My Juliette (2020)

References

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