Gemini Dream

Infobox Single
Name = Gemini Dream


Artist = The Moody Blues
from Album = Long Distance Voyager
Released = May 1981
B-side = "Painted Smile"
Recorded = 1980
Length = 4:10
Label = Polydor Records
Writer = Justin Hayward
John Lodge
Last single = "Driftwood"
(1978)
This single = "Gemini Dream"
(1981)
Next single = "The Voice"
(1981)

"Gemini Dream" is a 1981 single by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues. It reached #12 in the U.S. charts. It was written jointly by the band's lead guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge, both of whom won an ASCAP songwriting award for it. It was the first single released from their 1981 album "Long Distance Voyager", which also included "Painted Smile," another track from the album, on the B-side. Two more songs from "Long Distance Voyager", "The Voice" and "Talking Out of Turn", were subsequently released as singles after the album's release.

"Gemini Dream" is also notable for the fact that it was the first Moody Blues single to feature Patrick Moraz on keyboards. Moraz had replaced the original keyboardist Mike Pinder, who left the band shortly after completion of their previous album "Octave" for personal reasons. Moraz was hired to take Pinder's place in time for the Moody Blues 1979 "Octave World Tour." After the tour, Moraz was then retained as a permanent member of the band, and he recorded with the Moody Blues up until 1991.

"Gemini Dream" was also the first Moody Blues single released on Polydor Records, who had recently acquired Decca Records. Decca had been the Moody Blues previous record label.

Credits

* Justin Hayward: electric guitar, vocals
* John Lodge: bass guitar, vocals
* Patrick Moraz: keyboards
* Ray Thomas: backing vocals
* Graeme Edge: drums, percussion