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Justin Time: Moody Blues’ frontman Justin Hayward, heading back to the UK for an In Concert tour.
If I made Justin Hayward feel old right from the outset of our conversation, he had the good grace to laugh and carry on talking to me. My genuine respect for his back-catalogue probably helped, mind.
I was telling him that while I’ve not long since hit 50, I worked out that his first LP with The Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed, was released when I was just a fortnight old. The album that spawned Nights in White Satin has certainly stood the test of time though.
“I suppose it has. Do you know, I get more interest in that album now. It’s surprising the amount of young songwriters that speak to me about that album. I think it’s maybe because it didn’t have any kind of commercial pretension or wasn’t made to try to sell anything.”
In fact, it was the album that had the lowest chart placing of 13 studio LPs they released up to 1988, that tally including UK No.1s with On the Threshold of a Dream (1969), A Question of Balance (1970) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Justin David Hayward (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician best known as songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist for the rock band The Moody Blues. In 2018, Hayward was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside the Moody Blues. Hayward was born in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, and educated at Shrivenham School in Berkshire and the Commonweal School in Swindon. He was playing in several bands as early as age 15 when he bought his Gibson 335, a guitar that appears on nearly all of his records throughout his career, and a Vox AC30 amplifier. All previous guitars were "unsatisfactory" and required modification. He performed with local Swindon groups in clubs and dance halls playing mostly Buddy Holly songs. One of Hayward's early groups was All Things Bright, which opened for The Hollies and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. At age 17, he signed an eight-year publishing contract as a songwriter with the skiffle artist and record producer Lonnie Donegan, a move Hayward later regretted, as it meant the rights to all his songs written before 1 Moody Blues legend: Justin Hayward calyx He went to Shrivenham Primary School and then on to Commonweal, but was already an accomplished musician when he left school at the age of sixteen. "I was tall for my age and I could run, so they called me 'Legs'," he recalled. Young talent: Hayward played in various Swindon bands during his formative teen years •
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Justin Hayward
It was clear from an early age that Justin Hayward would carve out a career as a musician and singer, but few who heard him sing in the choir at St Saviour's Church, Swindon in the 1950s could have guessed that he would lead one of the world's most famous 'supergroups'.
Born in Dean Street, Swindon, on 14 October 1946, Justin was the son of two teachers.
It was at Commonweal that he acquired his nickname, 'Legs', which was to stay with him during his most successful years with The Moody Blues.
He could run fast, too, and won the South West County Championships for the 440 yards.
But music was his true v
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