Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971) Vinyl LP •PLAY-GRADED• favor

Catalog Number: THS-5

Record Grading: Excellent (EX), Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)

Condition Details:

Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Textured gate-fold cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, and surface impressions (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeve is original (lyrics/photo). Spine is mostly readable with noticeable wear (printed off-center). Heavy shelf-wear along top/bottom and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. "BW" suffix on label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Procession
• The Story In Your Eyes
• Our Guessing Game
• Emily's Song
• After You Came
• One More Time To Live
• Nice To Be Here
• You Can Never Go Home
• My Song

About The Record:

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, by the Moody Blues, reached No. 1 on the British album charts, in addition to a three week stay at No. 2 in the United States, and produced one top-40 single, The Story in Your Eyes. The album was the last to feature only the Mellotron, as it would be assisted by the Chamberlin (another device that uses recorded tape to generate sound) on the Moody Blues' next studio album, 1972's Seventh Sojourn. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour featured the only track to be written by all five members of the band; the opening Procession was a piece that was intended to describe the history of music from the beginning of time up until the album's recording. The only three words heard in this track --"desolation," "creation," and "communication"—were similarly used (along with many other "-ation" words) in One More Time to Live. The track Emily's Song was written by John Lodge for his newborn daughter. The title of the album is taken from the student mnemonic for the lines of the treble clef: E-G-B-D-F. These notes are heard played on piano during Procession. The front cover has been imitated by the leader of the dark progressive band Current 93, David Tibet, with a drawing he has made up in order that it could appear on the cover of Halo, a live album released in 2004.