Moody Blues, The - Present (1983) Part 1 (Full Album)

Track List: 1-4 1. Moody Blues - Blue World (0:00) 2. Moody Blues - Meet Me Halfway (5:20) 3. Moody Blues - Sitting At The Wheel (9:29) 4. Moody Blues - Going Nowhere (15:09) Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. The Present is the eleventh album by the Moody Blues, released in 1983. This was the group’s last original studio album to be released on their custom label, Threshold Records. The album is the second of the Patrick Moraz era. It provided three minor hit singles in the U.S. with “Blue World“ (#62), “Sitting at the Wheel“ (#27) and “Running Water“. The album has a track sequence designed to capitalise on the legacy of the more successful Long Distance Voyager, with Justin Hayward’s songs at the beginning and Ray Thomas’s at the end. In November 2008 the album was remastered and released on CD with two extra tracks. The cover is a pastiche of Maxfield Parrish’s painting Daybreak. Personnel: Justin Hayward – vocals, guitar John Lodge – vocals, bass guitar Ray Thomas – vocals, harmonica, flute Graeme Edge – drums Patrick Moraz – keyboards, synthesizers Additional personnel: Pip Williams – sequencing