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Other people|HaywardBLP IMDB refimprove|date=September 2008Infobox musical artist | name = David Justin Hayward| image = JustinHayward3.jpg| caption = Justin Hayward in 2007| image_size = 200| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Justin Hayward| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1946|10|14|df=y|birth_place = Swindon , Wiltshire England United Kingdom | death_date =| instrument = Guitar , piano singing|vocals , mandolin , sitar | genre = Rock music|Rock | occupation = Musician , songwriter | years_active = 1965–present| label = Pye Records Parlophone Threshold Records Deram Records Polydor CMC International Trax Records Towerbell Records Armou Records| associated_acts = The Moody Blues | website =| notable_instruments = Gibson ES-335 Justin Hayward (born on 14 October 1946, in Swindon , Wiltshire , England ) is an English musician, best known as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the rock band The Moody Blues .
Hayward was born in Dean Street, Swindon , Wiltshire , England and he was educated at Shrivenham School, Berkshire and Commonweal School|The Commonweal School , in Swindon, Wiltshire. http://www.commonwealarts.co.uk/20052006pages/patronjustin.htm Justin Hayward friend of Commonweal
Career
When Hayward was 15 he was able to afford a Gibson Guitar Company|Gibson guitar and a Vox (musical equipment)|Vox amplifier through performing 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 a 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 1974 would always be owned by Donegan's Tyler Music http://www.justinhayward.com/happenings_archives_031.html. In 1965 he answered an advertisement in Melody Maker and auditioned as guitarist for Marty Wilde and he went on to work with Wilde and his wife in The Wilde Three.
Hayward was recently involved in the remastering of The Moody Blues back catalogue for Universal Music Group|Universal Music .
The Moody Blues
In 1966, after answering another ad in Melody Maker , this time placed by Eric Burdon of The Animals , Hayward was contacted by Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues after Burdon had passed on Hayward's letter and demo discs to Pinder. Within a few days Hayward had replaced departing Moody Blues vocalist and guitarist Denny Laine . Bassist John Lodge (musician)|John Lodge replaced temporary deputy Rod Clarke who had stood in for departed Bassist Clint Warwick at the same time.
After beginning by singing the old Blues inspired repertoire of The Moodies 1964-1965 era, Hayward's initial artistic contribution to The Moody Blues was his song 'Fly Me High' which was a Decca single early in 1967, this failed to chart but gave the revised band a new sound and direction, being more of an original contemporary track than the 'R & B' sound they had been largely producing up to that point.
Hayward's driving rocker 'Leave This Man Alone' was then used as 'B' side to the next Moodies single on Decca, backing Mike Pinder's 'Love And Beauty' (1967) the first Moodies record to feature the mellotron.
Hayward's and Lodge's integration into the Moody Blues along with Pinder's use of the Mellotron sparked greater commercial success and recognition for the band, transforming them into one of pop music's biggest-selling acts. Hayward says of Pinder: "Mike and the Mellotron made my songs work."
The 1967 album Days of Future Passed , one of the first and most influential symphonic rock albums, spawned the Hayward-penned singles " Tuesday Afternoon " and " Nights in White Satin ". The latter record went on to sell over two million copies, charting three times in the UK (1967, 1972, and in 1979) and has been recorded by many other recording artists. Hayward's 'B' side song 'Cities' being an early ecology themed item.
Hayward became the group's main onstage figurehead over the 1967-1974 period, the most prolific songwriter and composer of several big singles hits for the band. During this time he wrote memorable album tracks such as: " Tuesday Afternoon " (originally the first half, with John Lodge's (Evening) Time to Get Away , of "'Forever Afternoon (Tuesday? )"), " The Actor (The Moody Blues song)|The Actor ", " Lovely to See You ", " Never Comes the Day ", " Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time) ", " It's Up To You (song)|It's Up To You ", " Dawning is The Day "," You Can Never Go Home ", " The Story in Your Eyes " (a US chart hit), " New Horizons (song)|New Horizons ", " The Land of Make-Believe ", and "Island"
Hayward wrote the band's UK #2 Chart-topper|hit , " Question (song)|Question " as well as " Voices in the Sky ", " Driftwood (The Moody Blues song)|Driftwood ", " The Voice (The Moody Blues song)|The Voice ", " Blue World ", " Your Wildest Dreams ", " I Know You're Out There Somewhere ", " English Sunset " and "December Snow"; in all, writing 20 of the group's 27 post-1967 singles.
In addition to handling the Lead vocals on his own compositions, Hayward also took a featured lead or co-lead vocal on other band members songs such as; " Dawn is A Feeling " (Pinder), "Gimmie A Little Something", " Isn't Life Strange ", " Candle of Life " (Lodge), "After You Came", "I'll Be Level With You", "The Spirit". "Nothing Changes" (Edge) etc....
The Moodies attempts to come up with another specific 'hit single' during the 1967-68 period saw them record three other Hayward compositions; "Long Summer Days", "King and Queen" and "What Am I Doing Here? " all of which were then left unissued, but together with unissued songs by Mike Pinder and John Lodge later formed the 'studio side four' of Decca's 1977 release; Caught Live Plus Five which largely comprised a December 1969 Live Recording of a concert at The Royal Albert Hall (issued against the group's wishes).
Hayward also co-wrote album tracks with Ray Thomas - " Visions of Paradise ", " Are You Sitting Comfortably? (song)|Are You Sitting Comfortably ", " Watching and Waiting ", and much later " Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain ", plus later co-wrote many songs with John Lodge for The Moodies, notably " Gemini Dream " (a US Chart hit), "Meet Me Halfway", " Talkin' Talkin' ", " Want To Be With You ", "Once is Enough", " Strange Times (The Moody Blues album)|Strange Times "," Sooner or Later (Walking on Air) " among others.
Hayward's songs have opened each of The Moodies albums in their 'post Mike Pinder era' since Long Distance Voyager in 1981, and his songs, both solo compositions and co-written with John Lodge, plus his lead vocals, harmony voice, and guitar playing have been a major overriding factor in the bands work and continued success since 1981.
Their album sales from 1978 to the present are more than 60 million. This is the regularly quoted total of their album sales, since the total sales of their albums before 1978 is disputed due to lack of official record company data,Decca Moody Blues liner notes, Decca Records / Universal Music 2006 However the period 1967 to 1974 was when their albums (and singles) were charting highest in the UK and US plus worldwide (album track "Melancholy Man" made number one in France as a single in 1970) - Days of Future Passed topped the US album charts on re-issue in 1972, then was followed into the album charts by the new studio album Seventh Sojourn .
1974 onwards
In 1974, the Moody Blues decided to take what ended up being a four-year break from performing and recording. Hayward continued working with Lodge and producer Tony Clarke (producer)|Tony Clarke , using musicians from the Moody Blues' label, Threshold Records|Threshold , and sounding very much like the mother group. Together, they had a hit in 1975 with "Blue Guitar" (a Hayward recording with the band 10cc ), and released an album titled Blue Jays (album)|Blue Jays .
In 1977 Justin recorded his first solo album Songwriter (Justin Hayward album)|Songwriter . He enjoyed international solo success in 1978 when he appeared on '' Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds '' concept album , which yielded his hits " Forever Autumn (song)|Forever Autumn " and "The Eve of the War". Wayne later contributed to Hayward's 1980 album Night Flight (album)|Night Flight .
Hayward issued a rare non album single "Marie" c/w "Heart of Steel' (Decca F13834) in April 1979, both sides composed by him, the 'A' side dedicated to his wife. These tracks were later included among the 'Bonus' tracks on a CD re-issue of his Songwriter solo album in 2004.
During the 1980s, Hayward composed and performed for film and television, including the theme song "It Won't Be Easy" for the 1987 BBC Two|BBC2 science fiction series Star Cops , "Something Evil, Something Dangerous" for the film Howling IV: The Original Nightmare , "Eternal Woman" for the film She (1982 film)|She and music for the animated television series The Shoe People .
In 1989, with producer-arranger Mike Batt , Hayward released Classic Blue , an album of pop standards written by other composers, set to orchestration arranged by Batt. Classic Blue included a cover version of Led Zeppelin 's hit " Stairway to Heaven ." Hayward's most recent solo album, The View from the Hill , was released in 1996, and a live recording, Live In San Juan Capistrano (album)|Live in San Juan Capistrano , followed in 1998.
Hayward contributed vocals to a song on Rick Wakeman 's 1999 album Return to the Centre of the Earth .
In 2003 he sang along with other rock singers on another orchestral album, consisting of Moody Blues songs with the Frankfurt Rock Orchestra, titled Justin Hayward and Friends Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits|Justin Hayward and Friends Perform the Hits of the Moody Blues (alternatively called Justin Hayward and Friends Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits ). Hayward was later involved in a legal dispute, now resolved, arguing he was not paid for his participation on the album.
In April 2006, Hayward took part in the stage tour of '' Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds , reprising his role in Autumn 2007 in Australia and in the UK in December 2007. He did so again in the UK in June 2009, and appeared on the tour in November and December 2010. http://www.goldenplec.com/2010/11/30/review-jeff-waynes-war-worlds/ Review: Jeff Wayne’s War of The Worlds - Goldenplec http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/152756956 Odyssey Arena, Belfast ... - California Chronicle
The Moody Blues, with Hayward, Lodge and original drummer Graeme Edge , continue to tour extensively and in a recent BBC World Service interview, Hayward and Lodge made it clear they have no plans to stop working, regarding it as "a privilege" to still be working in the music industry. In an interview, in 2005, Edge said if he remained in good health, he could go on for 10 more years.
On 10 December 2011 Hayward along with fellow legends Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull and Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden played a concert together at Canterbury Cathedral.
Instruments
For the most part, Hayward has used a red Gibson ES-335 ("main axe"), though he also uses other guitars in both performing and recording, including a 1955 C. F. Martin & Company|Martin D-28 " Dreadnought (guitar type)|Dreadnought ", a James Olson six-string acoustic, a black Guild Guitar Company|Guild acoustic, a Squier Stratocaster (essentially an inexpensive Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender Fender Stratocaster|Stratocaster , as Squier is a subsidiary of Fender), a Fender Telecaster , a blonde Guild 12-string acoustic (tuned to Open_C_tuning#Variants|"open C" ), a 12-string Gibson Guitar Company|Gibson acoustic (for "Question"), and in 1967 a black Gibson Les Paul . Between 1965 and 1968 he was without his Gibson 335 and relied on other instruments, most notably a 1964 Fender Telecaster and a hand-built 12-string guitar he had renovated for Donegan (he eventually bought this guitar from Donegan's widow). However, in an interview included on the Lovely to See You concert DVD (2005), Hayward says the 1963 Gibson 335 has been with him since 1967. Recently he has played a Collings Guitars|Collings D3 on stage and on recordings. Among other instruments, Hayward also played mandolin on A Question of Balance and sitar on "In Search of the Lost Chord".
Personal life
Hayward married former model Ann Marie Guirron on December 19, 1969. Their daughter Doremi was born on December 3, 1972.
Awards
Hayward was awarded the first of numerous awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for songwriting in 1974. In 1985, the Moody Blues picked up the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and in 1988 Hayward received the Novello, among other honours, for Composer of the Year (for "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"). In 2000, he was one of a handful of British artists to receive the "Golden Note" award for lifetime achievement by ASCAP. In 2004, Hayward was awarded the "Gold Badge" for lifetime achievement by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
Compositions
1965 ~ "London Is Behind Me" (45 RPM Debut Single)
1966 ~ "Day Must Come" (45 RPM Single)
1966 ~ "I Can't Face the World Without You" (45 RPM Single)
1966 ~ "I'll Be Here Tomorrow" (45 RPM Single)
1967 ~ " Tuesday Afternoon " on Days of Future Passed
1967 ~ " Nights in White Satin " on Days of Future Passed
1967 ~ "Fly Me High" (45 RPM Single)
1967 ~ "Leave This Man Alone" (45 RPM Single)
1967 ~ "Cities" (45 RPM Single)
1967 ~ "Long Summer Days" (Released 1977)
1967 ~ "King and Queen" (Released 1977)
1967 ~ "What Am I Doing Here? " (Released 1977)
1968 ~ " Voices in the Sky " on In Search of the Lost Chord
1968 ~ " Visions of Paradise " (with Ray Thomas ) on In Search of the Lost Chord
1968 ~ " The Actor (The Moody Blues song)|The Actor " on In Search of the Lost Chord
1969 ~ " Lovely to See You " on On the Threshold of a Dream
1969 ~ " Never Comes the Day " on On the Threshold of a Dream
1969 ~ " Are You Sitting Comfortably? (song)|Are You Sitting Comfortably? " (with Ray Thomas) on On the Threshold of a Dream
1969 ~ " Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time) " on '' To Our Children's Children's Children
1969 ~ " Watching and Waiting " (with Ray Thomas) on ''To Our Children's Children's Children
1969 ~ " I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred " on ''To Our Children's Children's Children
1970 ~ " Question (song)|Question " on A Question of Balance
1970 ~ "It's Up to You" on A Question of Balance
1970 ~ "Dawning Is The Day" on A Question of Balance
1971 ~ "Procession" (with Thomas, Lodge, Edge and Pinder) on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (album)|Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1971 ~ " The Story in Your Eyes " on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1971 ~ "You Can Never Go Home" on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1972 ~ " You and Me (The Moody Blues song)|You and Me " (with Graeme Edge) on Seventh Sojourn
1972 ~ " New Horizons (song)|New Horizons " on Seventh Sojourn
1972 ~ "The Land of Make Believe" on Seventh Sojourn
1973 ~ "Island" on Seventh Sojourn (Digitally Remastered 5.1 Edition)
1973 ~ "The Dreamer" (with Ray Thomas) on Seventh Sojourn (Digitally Remastered 5.1 edition)
1975 ~ "This Morning" on Blue Jays (album)|Blue Jays
1975 ~ "Remember Me My Friend" (with John Lodge) on Blue Jays
1975 ~ "My Brother" (with John Lodge) on Blue Jays
1975 ~ "Nights Winters Years" on Blue Jays
1975 ~ "I Dreamed Last Night" on Blue Jays
1975 ~ "Who Are You Now" on Blue Jays
1975 ~ "When You Wake Up" (with John Lodge) on Blue Jays
1975 ~ "Blue Guitar" on Blue Jays (CD Reissue)
1977 ~ "Tightrope" on Songwriter (Justin Hayward album)|Songwriter
1977 ~ "Songwriter" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Country Girl" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "One Lonely Room" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Lay It on Me" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Stage Door" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Raised on Love" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Doin' Time" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Nostradamus" on Songwriter
1977 ~ "Marie" on Songwriter (CD Reissue)
1977 ~ "Heart of Steel" on Songwriter (2nd CD Reissue)
1977 ~ "Wrong Time Right Place" on Songwriter (2nd CD Reissue)
1978 ~ "Had to Fall in Love" on Octave (album)|Octave
1978 ~ "The Day We Meet Again" on Octave
1978 ~ " Driftwood (The Moody Blues song)|Driftwood " on Octave
1978 ~ "Top Rank Suite" on Octave
1980 ~ "Crazy Lovers" on Night Flight (album)|Night Flight
1980 ~ "Nearer to You" on Night Flight
1980 ~ "A Face in the Crowd" on 'Night Flight
1980 ~ "Suitcase" on Night Flight
1981 ~ " The Voice (The Moody Blues song)|The Voice " on Long Distance Voyager
1981 ~ " Gemini Dream " (with John Lodge) on Long Distance Voyager
1981 ~ "In My World" on Long Distance Voyager
1981 ~ "Meanwhile" on Long Distance Voyager
1983 ~ " Blue World " on The Present
1983 ~ "Meet Me Halfway" (with John Lodge) on The Present
1983 ~ "It's Cold Outside of Your Heart" on The Present
1983 ~ " Running Water (The Moody Blues song)|Running Water " on The Present
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