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American composer and lyricist (1912-1997)
Justin Hayward is an English musician who was the guitarist and frontman of the rock band the Moody Blues from 1966 to 2018. He became the group’s principal vocalist and its most prolific songwriter, composing several international hit singles for the band. Hayward also has a successful solo career, with hits like “Blue Guitar” and “Forever Autumn” to his name. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues, and in 2022, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to the music industry.
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David Justin Hayward is an English musician. He was the guitarist and frontman of the rock band the Moody Blues from 1966 until that group’s dissolution in 2018. He became the group’s principal vocalist and its most prolific songwriter over the 1967-1974 period, and composed several international hit singles for the band.
Singles written by Hayward for the Moody Blues include “Nights in White Satin”, “Tuesday Afternoon”, “Question”, “The Voice”, “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere” and “English Sunset”; he wrote 20 of the group’s 27 post-1967 singles. He also has a solo career. His first album outside the Moody Blues, Blue Jays, a collaboration with John Lodge, reached the UK top five in 1975. The single “Blue Guitar”, recorded with 10cc as the backing band, reached the UK top ten in 1975, and his 1978 recording of “Forever Autumn” from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds reached the UK top five.
In 2018 Hayward was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues and in 2022 was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empirefor services to the music industry.
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Justin Hayward is an English musician who was the guitarist and frontman of the rock band the Moody Blues from 1966 until the group’s dissolution in 2018.
Justin Hayward became the Moody Blues’ principal vocalist and its most prolific songwriter, composing several international hit singles for the band.
Singles written by Justin Hayward for the Moody Blues include ,Nights in White Satin,, ,Tuesday Afternoon,, ,Question,, ,The Voice,, ,I Know You’re Out There Somewhere,, and ,English Sunset,.
In addition to his work with the Moody Blues, Justin Hayward has had a successful solo career, with hits like ,Blue Guitar, and ,Forever Autumn, to his name. He was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues in 2018 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2022 for his contributions to the music industry.
Justin Hayward was born on 14 October 1946.
5 Quotes by Justin Hayward
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I sometimes don’t know what songs are about for several years after I’ve written them.
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And if you stop and think about it you won’t believe it’s true: That all the love you’ve been giving has all been meant for you.
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My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
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I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else’s feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
Justin HaywardBritish musician
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Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.
Justin HaywardBritish musician