ANNOUNCING: NEW Updated & Expanded 2nd Edition Moody Blues Book!

Timeless Troubadours: The Moody Blues' Music & Message UPDATED and EXPANDED Edition

Due to the overwhelmingly positive (and sometimes painfully honest) responses by you, our readers, we’re proud to announce the release of the Revised and Updated 2^nd Edition of our book the Amazon Best-Seller Timeless Troubadours: The Moody Blues’ Music and Message.   We want to say a heartfelt “Thank You!” to the many readers who care enough about the band, their music, and this book about them, to share their insights, correct a few inaccuracies and request that we expand to book’s scope to more fully cover the music of this brilliant band.  

Introduction to the NEW Updated

Expanded Edition

With the feedback from our readers we expanded our first edition’s content. We have fixed the few errors and rare factual inaccuracies we had found.

Several readers asked that we look at and make meaning about more of their songs. We have done that with three (see next page): ‘Question,’ ‘New Horizons,’ and ‘I’m just a singer’ (in a R&R band).

Just after completing this book we went on their first “Moodies Cruise” and now include a summary of our experience there. We obtained the new Timeless Flight box set that was released three months after this book and listened to the CDs and watched its DVD video material. We also read their extensive accompanying “coffee table” sized book. We have read the many online comments on this box set and have included a relevant few of them in our 7 page review of this large box set.

Some readers commented on our interpretations of the Moodies’ lyrics as not being the final word, which we had already acknowledged. We have always been open to others’ interpretations and even set up a website for readers to add theirs. We had never proposed that ours were the only understandings. We have also reflected on the lyrics the way they fit into our long experience helping people heal and healing ourselves. There is a great gift to knowing the Moodies’ message.

Songs We Analyze

To make for easier reading in this 2^nd edition, in the table below we list the 39 songs and two poems that we analyze here and the pages to find each. We still refer to many of these and some of their other songs elsewhere throughout this book.    

Chapter               Song Title		Page
1	Have You Heard 1, The Voyage, HYH 2	6
2 & 3	from DoFP:  8 songs, 2 spoken poems: The Day Begins, Dawn is a Feeling, Morning: Another Morning, Peak Hour, Tuesday Afternoon, Evening: Time to Get Away, The Sunset, Twilight Time, Nights in White Satin, Late Lament	13 to 20
4	Out and In	30
5	Eyes of a Child 1, Floating, Eyes of a Child 2	35
6	Gypsy,   Lost in a Lost World	40-2
7	And the Tide Rushes In,  You and Me	46-7
10	The Voice,  No More Lies	70-2
11	Say What you Mean  The Candle of Life	75 78
19	The Land of Make Believe	132
20	Troubadour	136
21	Say It with Love My Song  Lovely to See You	142 144 146
	Appendix    The Story in Your Eyes	164
	One More Time to Live	165
	English Sunset	167
	Watching and Waiting	169
	A Simple Game	171
	The Actor	172
	Legend of a Mind	175
	3 added        Question	177
	In 2nd          New Horizons	180
	Edition         I’m Just a Singer (in a R&R Band)	182