Justin Hayward

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Justin Hayward (2007)

Justin Hayward (born October 14, 1946 in Swindon , England ) is a British singer, guitarist and composer. He is mainly known as the co-frontman of the Moody Blues , but also for several solo albums, the hit singles Blue Guitar and Forever Autumn as well as guest appearances on the albums of other musicians such as Jeff Wayne , Rick Wakeman , Alain Simon and the Mandalaband .

Life

Hayward played in his hometown as a 15-year-old and then in local bands, of which All Things Bright was the longest-lived. “The biggest thing in my life”, he said in a TV interview in 1977, was Buddy Holly at the time “because he was the original songwriter and singer and guitar player”.

After some recordings with the group Wilde Three of the singer Marty Wilde and his wife Joyce (parents of Kim Wilde ) as well as his first, little-noticed solo records, he joined the Moody Blues in 1966 - according to legend by Eric Burdon - and had essentials Share in their successes over the next few years. Most of the hits of the group from Nights in White Satin (1967) to Question (1970) to Your Wildest Dreams (1986) were written and sung by him. After seven successful albums in five years, the Moody Blues took a creative break in 1973, and the individual members of the band turned to their own projects. Together with bassist John Lodge , Hayward recorded the album Blue Jays in 1975 and the solo single Blue Guitar with 10cc . In 1977 he released his first solo album entitled Songwriter . More followed - but he had the greatest success with the single Forever Autumn (1978), which was created in connection with the musical War of the Worlds under the direction of Jeff Wayne. Eve of the War was also released as a single, also from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds . In 1987 Hayward took on the role of "Butcher" in the live performance of the musical The Hunting of the Snark by Mike Batt (but Art Garfunkel sings on the album ). Justin Hayward has also sung a number of duets, including a. with Sally Oldfield or Annie Haslam . Together with Graeme Edge and John Lodge he still forms the core of the Moody Blues .

In 2006, 2007 and 2009 Justin toured with the musical Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds . As in the original album, he played the role of "The Sung Thoughts of the Journalist". For 2010 and 2011 he had also confirmed his participation for the new tour.

In an interview with the BBC, he said with John Lodge that it was a privilege to continue working in the music business and never quit. In February 2013, he underlined this announcement when his first studio solo album was released in 17 years. On Spirits of the Western Sky , produced by himself and Alberto Parodi, Kenny Loggins appears as co-songwriter, Anne Dudley conducts.

On June 27, 2015, the Moody Blues performed at the Glastonbury Festival . Hayward sang an acoustic version of his most famous song, Nights In White Satin , for a BBC-2 show in the afternoon and emphasized in the subsequent interview that his grandson was in the audience. In the evening the version of the complete band followed with the solo part of the flautist Norda Mullen . Nights… was written in 1967, according to the author, “about the adoration of women. All women. "

Hayward has recently been touring solo with Julie Ragins (vocals, keyboards) and fingerstyle guitarist Mike Dawes , who plays his own opening set . Both can also be heard on the live albums from 2014 and 2017 (see discography).

Instruments

Justin Hayward is proficient in a variety of instruments. In addition to acoustic and electric guitars , he plays bass , piano , keyboard , drums , percussion , sitar and harpsichord, among others .

Most of the time, Hayward uses a red Gibson ES-335 , although he also uses other guitars for performance and recording such as a 1955 Martin D-28 , a James Olsen, a black Guild Acoustic, Squier Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, and a blonde acoustic twelve-string Guild with an open mind (for question ). In 1967 he played a black Gibson Les Paul . From 1965 to 1968 he had to do without his Gibson 335 and used different instruments.

Awards

Justin Hayward won the first of many ASCAP songwriting awards in 1974. In 1985 the Moody Blues received the Ivor Novello Award , and in 1988 Hayward also received an Ivor Novello Award, along with other awards, including one for "Composer of the Year" for his song I Know You're Out There Somewhere . In 2000 he was one of the few British artists to receive the "Golden Note" award for life's work. In 2004 he also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy for Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

Compositions

  • 1966 - London Is Behind Me
  • 1966 - Day Must Come
  • 1966 - I Can't Face the World Without You
  • 1966 - I'll Be Here Tomorrow (these four were published as the A and B sides of the two so-called "pre-moodies" singles)
  • 1967 - Fly Me High
  • 1967 - Leave This Man Alone
  • 1967 - Long Summer Days
  • 1967 - Tuesday Afternoon
  • 1967 - Nights in White Satin (with cover versions of this Moody Blues signature song, The Dickies reached UK # 39 in September 1979 and Elkie Brooks reached # 33 in July 1982)
  • 1967 - Cities
  • 1968 - King and Queen
  • 1968 - Voices in the Sky
  • 1968 - Visions of Paradise (with Ray Thomas )
  • 1968 - The Actor
  • 1968 - What Am I Doing Here?
  • 1969 - Lovely to See You
  • 1969 - Never Comes the Day
  • 1969 - Are You Sitting Comfortably? (with Ray Thomas)
  • 1969 - Gypsy
  • 1969 - Watching & Waiting (with Ray Thomas)
  • 1969 - I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred /… a Million
  • 1970 - Question
  • 1970 - It's Up to You
  • 1970 - Dawning Is The Day
  • 1971 - Procession (with Thomas, Lodge, Edge and Pinder)
  • 1971 - The Story In Your Eyes
  • 1971 - You Can Never Go Home
  • 1972 - You and Me (with Graeme Edge)
  • 1972 - New Horizons
  • 1972 - The Land of Make Believe
  • 1973 - Iceland
  • 1973 - The Dreamer (with Ray Thomas)
  • 1975 - This Morning
  • 1975 - Remember Me My Friend (with John Lodge)
  • 1975 - My Brother (with John Lodge)
  • 1975 - Nights Winters Years
  • 1975 - I Dreamed Last Night
  • 1975 Who Are You Now
  • 1975 When You Wake Up (with John Lodge)
  • 1975 - Blue Guitar
  • 1977 - tightrope
  • 1977 - Songwriter (Parts I & II)
  • 1977 - Country Girl
  • 1977 - One Lonely Room
  • 1977 - Lay It on Me
  • 1977 - Stage Door
  • 1977 - Raised on Love
  • 1977 - Doin 'Time
  • 1977 - Nostradamus
  • 1977 - Marie
  • 1977 - Heart of Steel
  • 1977 - Wrong Time Right Place
  • 1978 - Had to Fall in Love
  • 1978 - The Day We Meet Again
  • 1978 - Driftwood
  • 1978 - Top Rank Suite
  • 1980 - Crazy Lovers
  • 1980 - Nearer to You
  • 1980 - A Face in the Crowd
  • 1980 - Suitcase
  • 1981 - The Voice
  • 1981 - Gemini Dream (with John Lodge)
  • 1981 - In My World
  • 1981 - Meanwhile
  • 1983 - Blue World
  • 1983 - Meet Me Halfway (with John Lodge)
  • 1983 - It's Cold Outside of Your Heart
  • 1983 - Running Water
  • 1983 - Eternal Woman (for the Italian film She by Avi Nesher ; guest musician: Rick Wakeman at the Mellotron )
  • 1985 - One Again
  • 1985 - Take Your Chances
  • 1985 - Is it Just a Game?
  • 1985 - Moving Mountains
  • 1985 - Silverbird (with Jeff Wayne)
  • 1985 - Who Knows?
  • 1985 - goodbye
  • 1985 - Lost and Found
  • 1985 - The Lights are Low
  • 1986 - Your Wildest Dreams
  • 1986 - Talkin 'Talkin' (with John Lodge)
  • 1986 - I Just Don't Care
  • 1986 - Runnin 'Out of Love (with John Lodge)
  • 1986 - The Other Side of Life
  • 1986 - Slings and Arrows (with John Lodge)
  • 1987 - It Won't Be Easy (for the British TV series "Star Cops", also released as a single, # 83 UK)
  • 1987 - Outer Space (instrumental, with Tony Visconti , also from "Star Cops" )
  • 1988 - I Know You're Out There Somewhere
  • 1988 Want to Be With You (with John Lodge)
  • 1988 - The River of Endless Love (with John Lodge)
  • 1988 - No More Lies
  • 1988 - Vintage Wine
  • 1988 - Breaking Point (with John Lodge)
  • 1988 - Miracle (with John Lodge)
  • 1988 - Deep
  • 1989 - Shoe People (for the British children's animated television series of the same name)
  • 1989 - The Angels Cry , sung by Agnetha Fältskog and (later) Annie Haslam
  • 1989 - Something Evil, Something Dangerous (with Barrie Guard, for the film "The Howling IV" )
  • 1991 - Say It With Love
  • 1991 - Bless The Wings
  • 1991 - Is This Heaven? (with John Lodge)
  • 1991 - Say What You Mean (Parts I & II)
  • 1991 - Hope and Pray
  • 1991 - Once Is Enough (with John Lodge)
  • 1991 - Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain (with Ray Thomas)
  • 1996 - Highway (with John Lodge, bonus track on the compilation Time Traveler )
  • 1996 - I Heard It
  • 1996 - Broken Dream
  • 1996 - It's Not Too Late
  • 1996 - The Way of the World
  • 1996 - Sometimes Less is More (with Dennis Lambert)
  • 1996 - troubadour
  • 1996 - Shame
  • 1996 - Billy
  • 1996 - Children of Paradise (with Mickey Féat)
  • 1999 - English Sunset
  • 1999 - Haunted
  • 1999 - Sooner or Later (with John Lodge)
  • 1999 - Foolish Love
  • 1999 - All That is Real is You
  • 1999 - Strange Times (with John Lodge)
  • 1999 - The One (with John Lodge)
  • 1999 - The Swallow
  • 2001 - Water (with John Lodge, instrumental)
  • 2001 - We Can Fly (with John Lodge; both written and used for the MacGillivray Freeman Films film soundtrack Journey Into Amazing Caves )
  • 2003 - Don't Need A Reindeer (album "December", as well as the three following tracks)
  • 2003 - December Snow
  • 2003 - In The Quiet of Christmas Morning (with John Lodge)
  • 2003 - Yes, I Believe
  • 2013 - In Your Blue Eyes (album Spirits of the Western Sky , as well as the following eight tracks)
  • 2013 - One Day, Someday (Orchestra: Anne Dudley )
  • 2013 - The Western Sky
  • 2013 - The Eastern Sun
  • 2013 - On The Road to Love (with Kenny Loggins )
  • 2013 - Lazy Afternoon
  • 2013 - In The Beginning
  • 2013 - What You Resist Persists
  • 2013 - Captivated By You
  • 2016 - Wind of Heaven (with David Minasian and Alberto Parodi)
  • 2020 - One Summer Day
  • 2020 - My Juliette

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1975 Blue Jays UK4th
gold
gold

(18 weeks)UK 		-
First published: 1975
with John Lodge
1977 Songwriter UK28 (5 weeks)
UK 		US37 (16 weeks)
US
First published: 1977
1980 Night flight UK41 (4 weeks)
UK 		US166 (5 weeks)
US
First published: 1980
1985 Moving Mountains UK78 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: 1985
1989 Classic Blue UK47 (7 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: 1989
with Mike Batt and the London Symphony Orchestra
1996 The View From the Hill - -
First published: 1996
2013 Spirits Of The Western Sky UK81 (1 week)
UK 		US142 (1 week)
US
First published: 2013

Compilations

  • All the Way (2016, double CD, includes Wind of Heaven as a bonus track)

Live albums

  • Live in San Juan Capistrano (1998)
  • An Audience with Justin Hayward at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio (2004, DVD with interview as well as acoustic live and studio recordings; Hayward sings among others "Heartbeat" by Buddy Holly )
  • Spirits… Live - Live at the Buckhead Theater, Atlanta (2014, video album)
  • Live in Concert at the Capital Theater (2017, with Mike Dawes and Julie Ragins)

Others

  • Justin Hayward and Friends Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits (2003)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1975 Blue guitar UK8 (7 weeks)
UK 		US94 (5 weeks)
US
First published: 1975
with 10cc , B-side with John Lodge
I dreamed last night - US43 (7 weeks)
US
First published: 1975
with John Lodge
1978 Forever Autumn UK5
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK 		US47 (13 weeks)
US
First published: 1978
1987 It won't be easy UK83 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: 1987 (TV series Star Cops )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Swindon Beat . In: Higher & Higher , # 21/22, 1994, p. 8 ff.
  2. ↑ quoted from Kerry FitzGerald: Justin Hayward and the Bardic Craft . In: Higher & Higher , # 21/22, p. 92
  3. ^ Atlanta Journal and Constitution , March 11, 1988
  4. ↑ to Nights in White Satin In: officialcharts.com
  5. ^ Mark Murley: The Cinematic Hayward . In: Higher & Higher , # 21/22, 1994, pp. 58 f.
  6. ↑ to Star Cops In: officialcharts.com (not listed correctly there, the single was called and is called "It Won't Be Easy")
  7. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
  8. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
personal data
SURNAME Hayward, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer, guitarist and songwriter, member of the Moody Blues
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Swindon , England