S2E10: Justin Hayward

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt chat to the charming Justin Hayward. Justin is the singer and songwriter with the Moody Blues and has written some truly stunning records over the years. He is a multiple Ivor Novello award winner and with the Moody Blues has sold over 70 million albums. In this episode, he talks about auditioning for Marty Wilde, joining the Moody Blues and writing some of their incredible hit songs like ‘Nights in White Satin’ and ‘Question’. He also reveals how he ended up recording ‘Forever Autumn’ on the Jeff Wayne’s War of The Worlds.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions

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0:32.0	Hello Gary. Hey Guy, how are you? I'm very, very well. Very very well actually.
0:36.5	You've been playing with a rock star recently as well, haven't you? I might have. I might have.
0:40.8	Yes, I've been doing something I can't really talk about but just a bit of
0:44.8	recording with someone we really want to get on here one day Pete Townsend yeah I know
0:50.4	what a lovely man he is oh my god what what I love it. It was what a brain it was basically like being at a three day Ted Talk with occasional music playing.
1:00.4	It's nice to know you know when a guy's in his mid-70s he's still got you know a lot of planning and a lot of excitement and adrenaline
1:07.4	Yeah, absolutely and it's a million things going on. It's amazing.
1:11.3	Absolutely amazing.
1:12.3	Funny enough very near to very going on it's amazing absolutely amazing
1:12.6	funny enough very near to very near to the
1:16.2	birthplace of the man we're about speak to
1:18.9	uh... of course which is uh... he comes from swindon doesn't he come to
1:22.2	swindon yeah which has a famous Pete was telling me about this
1:25.0	and actually found myself on it which is a thing called the magic roundabout
1:28.0	which is the most confusing thing in the world which is a giant roundabout with a roundabout
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