Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)
- Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)
Infobox Song
Name = Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)
Artist = The Moody Blues
Album = To Our Children's Children's Children
Released = 15 November 1969
Recorded = May-September 1969
Length = 3:33
Label = Threshold Records
Writer = Justin Hayward
Producer = Tony Clarke
Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc =Extra tracklisting
Album = To Our Children's Children's Children
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
#"Higher and Higher"
#"Eyes of a Child I"
#"Floating"
#"Eyes of a Child II"
#"I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred"
#"Beyond"
#"Out and In";Side two
#- "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)"
#"Eternity Road"
#"Candle of Life"
#"Sun is Still Shining"
#"I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million"
#"Watching and Waiting"
"Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" is a 1969 song by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues, from their album "To Our Children's Children's Children", a concept album about space travel. Due to its long name, the song is often referred to on compilation albums as simply "Gypsy." It is often regarded as the album's most popular track.
The lyrics of "Gypsy" are related to the album's space travel theme by describing a traveler who is "traveling in panic all direction blind, aching for the warmth of a burning sun, freezing in the emptiness of where he'd come from." It is also revealed that this traveler will not be returning home to earth from the line "Left without a hope of coming home."
Personnel
* Justin Hayward: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
* John Lodge: bass guitar, backing vocals
* Mike Pinder: mellotron, backing vocals
* Ray Thomas: bass flute, backing vocals
* Graeme Edge: drums, percussion
External Links
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OlEkOjmUXE "Gypsy" being performed live in 1970 (YouTube Video)]
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