“Tuesday Afternoon” by The Moody Blues

"Tuesday Afternoon" became a Moody Blues single in 1968, pulled from Days of Future Passed, the 1967 concept album that follows the course of a single day. On the LP it was the first part of a piece called "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)", the title producer Tony Clarke insisted on; Justin Hayward had always meant to call it "Tuesday Afternoon".

Hayward wrote both words and music, and he wrote them, fittingly, on a Tuesday afternoon in Lydiard Park in Swindon, where his mother had taken him and his brother as boys. He went back there while the album was being made, and the song floats with that drowsy nostalgia, a symphonic daydream that drifts rather than rocks.

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