Tuesday 13th March

And now we have the Moody Blues, who started out like many early sixties bands literally playing the Blues.  They had a brilliant early hit ‘Go Now’ which I have always loved.  And after a couple of personnel changes they seemed to change direction, with Justin Hayward joining the band in 1966; they recorded with an orchestral backing, and their brilliant concept album ‘Days of Future Passed’ had the track Tuesday Afternoon on it, as well as the more famous ‘Nights in White Satin’.

They tried to repeat this formula with a few other albums such as ‘On the Threshold of a Dream’ and ‘To our Children’s Children’  but never made anything nearly as good as ‘Days’ again.  They had a tough time in the early seventies, but had a pretty loyal following.  They split in the mid seventies and reformed a few years later and have carried on making the occasional album and playing their hits for the ever-loyal fans.

Enough of the Moody Blues, as I had quite early on.  But the song Tuesday Afternoon has remained in my head far longer than it should have done.  It always lifts my spirits, because funnily enough Tuesday Afternoon is more often than not a bit depressing.  Too far from either weekend, and at school it was always double Chemistry, with all those wretched symbols and Atomic numbers to remember; Hydrogen was one I think and Oxygen eight, and that is all I can remember from those hundreds of Chemistry lessons.  If only I could have had an MP3 player in those days to just plug myself in and drift away with the Moodies on another Tuesday Afternoon.