Isn't Life Strange

Infobox Single
Name = Isn't Life Strange


Artist = The Moody Blues
from Album = Seventh Sojourn
Released = 21 April 1972
B-side = "After You Came"
Recorded = 1972
Length = 6:10
Label = Threshold Records
Writer = John Lodge
Producer = Tony Clarke
Last single = "The Story In Your Eyes"
(1971)
This single = "Isn't Life Strange"
(1972)
Next single = "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)"
(1973)
Misc =Extra tracklisting
Album = Seventh Sojourn
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
#"Lost in a Lost World"
#"New Horizons"
#"For My Lady"
#"Isn't Life Strange";Side two
#

"You and Me"
#"The Land of Make-Believe"
#"When You're a Free Man"
#"I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)"

"Isn't Life Strange" is a 1972 single by the English rock band The Moody Blues. Written by bassist John Lodge, it was the first of two singles released from their 1972 album "Seventh Sojourn", with the other being "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (also written by Lodge). "Isn't Life Strange" is one of the Moody Blues longer songs, lasting for over six minutes.

"Isn't Life Strange" opens with a slow duet of the flute (played by Ray Thomas) and the chamberlin (played by Mike Pinder), with John Lodge and Justin Hayward providing vocals. The song's chorus features the band's traditional line-up, and vocals provided by Hayward, Lodge, Pinder, and Thomas.

In addition, when the Moody Blues perform "Isn't Life Strange" live, John Lodge uses a double neck guitar with a standard guitar on one neck, and a bass on the other. He uses this since he generally plays the standard acoustic guitar during the verses, and the bass during the chorus, while the rest of the band is also playing. Also, whenever the Moody Blues perform live backed by a full orchestra, the orchestra's brass section performs a solo of the chorus twice throughout the song, once in the middle, and once at the end.

Credits

* Justin Hayward: electric guitar, vocals
* John Lodge: bass guitar, vocals
* Mike Pinder: chamberlin, backing vocals
* Ray Thomas: flute, backing vocals
* Graeme Edge: drums, percussion

External Links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEjUbJZJkxM "Isn't Life Strange" being performed at Royal Albert Hall (YouTube)]