Chords for MOODY BLUES-SUR LA MER INTERVIEW-TV AM. 9th.JUNE.88

_ _ Our next guests have in the course of their long career in pop music sold over 40 million records. _
Justin Hayward and John Lodge have been the voices and the composers behind some of the biggest hits of the last 21 years as members of the Moody Blues.
_ Well we'll be listening to a bit of their new LP a bit later on just as soon as we can get our act together. _
But meanwhile, good morning to you both.
It says on the back of your new album, so you'll end there.
It is now 21 years since we first heard the Days of Future Past and we're captivated seemingly forever by Nights in White Satin.
Seems like yesterday.
Does it really?
_ No.
It doesn't to me actually.
21 years, that's a long time isn't it?
Happy anniversary for coming in late.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Does it feel like 21 years?
Well no, but you know the compact disc has just been released of Days of Future Past as well so they come really quickly.
Oh they're the new compact disc.
This is the compact disc single.
I didn't even know they existed.
Oh they're great, lovely quality.
Little little thing. _ _
Incredible isn't it?
Yes it is.
And that's the single off the new album, I Know You're Out There Somewhere?
Yeah.
Which we will be playing in a moment.
When we can get our act together.
And we'll tell you when we'll be playing.
Which [Ab] is what we were talking about when you suddenly came [Gm] back to us.
Oh, [G] hey we've got our act together.
Shall we have [Ab] a_
Let's [Em] see what it's going to be like.
Let's listen to [C] I Know You're Out There Somewhere.
_ [G] _ From the Sio La Nair album. _ _
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Don't hold it.
_ _ _ I like it.
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Is [C] like thunder in the air _
[G] Cause the promise that
Made each other
[C] Holds me to the end
[Em] _ I know you're out [Am] there somewhere _
_ [G] _ Somewhere, _ [D] _ _ somewhere
[Em] I know you're out [Am] there somewhere _
_ [G] Somewhere you can hear my voice
[Em] I know I'll find [Am] you somehow _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] Somehow, somehow
[Em] I know I'll find [Am] you somehow _
[C] This _ _ [G] is very clever.
I didn't realise you could be a born_
But it's the cheapest _ video we've ever made.
_ _ We'll have to explain what happened today.
Because we were going to play the new video.
But the video that came in the box.
The box was right, the label was right.
Because the video on it was_
Crazy Fields, obviously.
A completely different number.
It's unbelievable.
Sensational, my verdict on that.
I think that's terrific. Very good.
The guitar works sensationally.
_ We should have done the steps as well.
Oh yes, you should have.
Now look, you've brought along some little bits of memorabilia.
Just to mark the 21 years.
Yes, that's right.
I mean, we don't carry this stuff around with us all the time.
We don't carry a little carrier bag all the time.
But that is_
That's the golden ticket award from Madison Square Gardens.
For the festival of 100,000 seats.
When was that?
_ _ 1973, I think.
_ _ _ _ You've kept it in the attic ever since.
What else?
[Ab] That's what Knights in White sat in at numero uno.
Oh, the Cashbox Top 100.
I love all the other people in the charts.
Number two, Elvis.
Three, Chuck Berry.
Good Lord.
You've got Elvis at number two.
Yeah, Johnny Nash in the top ten.
Curtis Mayfield is great.
You were top of an impressive pile.
Yes, fantastic.
Great pile to be top of.
Can you remember it when you were first told you were number one?
Must be a wonderful moment.
Oh, it's fantastic.
And?
That's a good one, too, because that's a poster from
_ our first American tour that we did.
It's at the Fillmore West.
Bill Graham from the Fillmore West in San Francisco.
_ And I'm not very clear, but that's our name.
And then this is Chicago Transit Authority with a support band.
A supporting band.
CTA, who now are just called Chicago.
That's right.
That's what he did before he started preaching, then, Billy Graham.
_ Oh, it's not that.
Bill Graham.
I'm sorry.
_ Because the Fillmore, that was the, I mean, for English artists
to go to the Fillmore in California.
It's like 1967.
Flower power and bells ringing.
A bit like that picture we saw of you there in the Bluebell Field
or whatever it was. That's right.
Lovely days.
_ Chicago Transit Authority, Justin was just saying when we were
in our last commercial break, they went on to become Chicago,
he said.
They were just kids at the time.
We were still at school, I think.
We were actually, if you look on the new Solaire album,
there are pictures of us about the age when we were,
did our first_ Inside.
Inside.
Where's the inside?
_ _ _ Take the inside.
Oh, after the next break, perhaps we can have a look at the inside.
We're very highly organised this morning.
I was just going to say, it's not a very interesting [Abm] [G] inside bit I've got.
_ You were saying that, I mean, it was just so lovely in those days,
flower power, long blonde hair, all the rest of it.
Is it still as exciting these days? _
Oh, yeah, it's great.
The touring bit is fantastic for us, yeah.
You've got a tour coming up, don't you?
Yeah.
Start July 27 in America.
Oh, yeah, are you coming over here?
Well, we hope to in the late autumn.
Why start in the States then?
What's the reason for that?
_ It seems to become part of our_
It seems to become part of our_
They've got these type of venues that we really enjoy playing,
which are like outdoor-indoor amphitheatres.
And for the last, what, three, four years,
we've been playing those through the summer.
[Ab] Yes, I was just wondering if the popularity in the States
was perhaps greater than it is here, even.
Well, our biggest success has always been in America.
_ But they do have these huge [Gm] amphitheatres outdoors.
And it's sort of the festival atmosphere of the late 60s, early 70s,
where everyone arrives one o'clock in the afternoon
and sit round on the lawns.
It's superb atmosphere.
It can be that good at Wembley, can't it, in summer?
Oh, yes, of course.
Sure.
Yes, of course.
_ And haven't you got a Christmas [Ab] concert coming up,
which is a charity one as well?
Yeah, we'll be touring here, I think, around about Christmas time.
Yes, yes, week_
The week before Christmas.
There they are.
Oh, there's the inside.
_ There's_
It's going to be very difficult to see.
See, cos the album was called Sur La Mer,
we all thought_
We've all got [N] pictures of us when we were kids.
You know, everybody has them now, on the beach and that.
But it's actually not called Sur La Mer
because it has anything to do with the sea, has it?
_ Well, there was_
OK, there's a case where_ LAUGHTER
When we first started making the album,
we said, where shall we start?
And somebody said_ On tubes.
On the sea.
The middle note of the piano.
Yeah, on Middle Sea.
And that's_
And so the whole thing is Sur_ The sea.
On the sea.
So Sur La Mer means_
It's a very summery album, and we wanted the sort of the naive_
Stop trying to justify it.
It's the naivety.
It's the naivety of what's the first thing you learn in French?
One of them, of course, is Sur La Mer.
And it's this_
It's called La Plume de Matar.
Yes, why didn't you call it La Plume de Matar?
_ We couldn't spell that, though, let's be honest.
And it has a very nice picture of Le Fort d'Antilles
by Nicolas de Steyerl in 1955.
That's the latest Voodoo Blues album.
We'll be talking a bit more to them,
a bit more sensibly