Chords for The Moody Blues - Justin in his Apartment

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_ _ _ _ _ just have to get it in tune.
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It's rather unusual for a band to have [G] maintained for the huge number of years that you have,
over five decades, without really having a personal manager.
[Eb] Was there any reason that
you [N] never had a manager?
Well, when I first joined the band we were with Brian Epstein, because _ _ I think a couple
of the Beatles quite liked us, and so it seemed like a good idea that the Moody's would be.
But _ it just didn't work, and we stumbled from manager to manager. _
We had a heating and ventilating
engineer from Newcastle who was our manager for a few weeks, bought us some equipment,
and it never really worked out.
We had one long run with an amazing guy and good friend
called Gerry Weintraub, who really started with us, and with John Denver. _
John Denver
was the support act for us, I think at Wembley, and then we got to know his manager, who was
Gerry Weintraub.
Gerry Weintraub went on to produce a film called Nashville, and then
did a lot of other things with John Denver, I think Oh God, the movies, and the Karate
Kid movies, and I think he's done the Ocean's Eleven now, so now he's a big Hollywood producer.
We've seen him, but he was the closest we ever got to a manager.
But his good friend
as well was also a man called Tom Hewlett, who managed that for us for a few years, and
he died about 12 years ago.
But he was the closest we ever got, _ and he was a lovely man.
Tom Hewlett, who was a dear man, a big fellow, a real man's man, not much good with business
or anything like that, but great for the gigs and for the sort of crack of the whole thing,
and just the ambiance.
And Tom had done all of the gigs with Elvis after 72 when he came
back, so he had a lot of great Elvis stories.
But he phoned me up one day, and this is the
power of songs really, he phoned me up [Abm] one day and he said, Hey Justin, [N] he lived in Seattle,
he said, Hey Justin, do you want to go to Kuala Lumpur? _
So I said, well I don't know,
where is it and how do you get there?
He said, well we go to the Philippines and the
American Navy will take us across.
I said, that'll be great.
So I said, do you think
people in Kuala _ Lumpur know who the Moody Blues are though?
And he said, I don't know,
he said, but I ask them, they sure as shit know Nights in White [B] Satin.
Oh, [C] that's enough
for me then.
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So that was the way he thought, and it's dead simple.
And we miss him greatly,
he was the closest we ever got.
But we've basically managed ourselves and made all the
classic mistakes and are still hoping one day to get it right.
_ _ Well at this one place, _ it was in Philadelphia, the Spectrum in Philadelphia, that they'd
left a little triangle where, because the wall was curved as it went round as you walked
onto the stage, but the scaffolding was square so there was a little bit of triangle of empty
space.
And we always go on in the same order, _ [G] superstitious thing, it just [Bb] works.
And the
way we follow, I always followed Ray on [B] stage, so I'm blindly [Ab] following Ray on stage with
[Ab] [Bb] my guitar, [Bb] and all of a sudden, he's not there.
He's [Dm] completely disappeared.
[D] And I looked
down and I could just see the top of his head sticking [G] out between the_
I'm fucking stuck.
And he'd fallen down this little hole.
[N] He was too poor, right.
He'd fallen down this
hole and _ _ twisted his ankle and he was suspended in the scaffolding underneath it, you know,
if you'd have seen it in cross section.
_ And Peter Brodies had to go underneath and push
him back up.
Dear Ray.
But the worst thing was he broke his flute, that wasn't [D] so funny.
In fact, he didn't think it was funny at all, any [B] aspect of it.
And I don't think it's funny
either, Ray, that _
[N] he asked me about it.
But the funny thing was, we got Ray onto the stage,
there was nowhere else to go, and anyway, [Bb] Graham and Mike were already out there, [Gb] hey,
[N] you know, we're on, and it was starting, the gig was starting.
And we got Ray onto the
stage, but he had no flute, his flute was broken.
And one of us made an announcement
to say, um_
Ray Thomas has broken his flute.
Just by any chance, there's nobody, he didn't
have a spare, there's nobody here with a flute, is there?
And somebody, [B] yeah, I've got a flute,
and this guy came up with [N] a complete C flute.
It's just the things people bring to concerts.
It's amazing.
Yeah, and Ray played his, his, this guy's flute for the whole concert,