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AI Series 4 - "I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)" - The Moody Blues

Description Lyrics Correction: The lines in the song that are published around the internet said: "Meeting so many people" the song actually says: "Reaching so many people" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)" (written by John Lodge): This song was the last of the band's singles to feature the Mellotron. The lyrics suggest that that music can unite people but says that people should not look to musicians for answers to their problems. We also learn how the song was inspired by the Vietnam War and some crazy fans camped out on John’s [Lodge] lawn… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The below was extracted from an article by Aaron Slater on July 21, 2002 in the Songwriting Magazine entitled: "How I wrote ‘I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)’ by The Moody Blues’ John Lodge" “This is where one of the lyrics for I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band) came from… I remember coming back from a tour and there was a whole load of people camped out in my front garden! I was like, ‘Er… What are you doing?’ and they all said, ‘John, we’ve come to tell you you’re going to save the Earth. You’re going to be flying the spaceship and fly us all to safety…’ And I was like, ‘Pardon? Just a minute, I actually don’t like flying! So I won’t be me.’ And they said, ‘When the time comes, it will be you.’ “So that’s when I started thinking: ‘Hang on, I’m just a singer in a rock ‘n’ roll band. I know nothing.’ And that’s why, at the very end of the song, I wanted to put, ‘We’re all just singers in a rock ‘n’ roll band.’ Also, it was the Vietnam War and around Europe there were riots going on all over the place, so I included lyrics like ‘Riots by the people for the people.’ In other words, you’re destroying yourself. “And I talk about, ‘Scorched earth, scorching this earth,’ and there was that incredible photograph of the young girl on fire [the image, included in this video but censored by me due to current YT policies, won a Pulitzer prize by photographer Nick Ut] and that hit me really hard, so that’s why I put that into the song. I wanted to put all that into a rock ‘n’ roll song, so I remember sitting in my music room with my guitar. I was at home in Cobham and I’m still here – I’ve written so many songs in my home, I think it vibrates with music! https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: "The Terror of War” a.k.a "Napalm Girl" photograph by Nick Ut, 1972 (was considered to have a major impact upon ending the war in Vietnam) included in this video but censored by me to comply with YT Policies, to read about the history of this photo and see the uncensored actual photo: https://aboutphotography.blog/blog/th... What I found interesting about Nick Ut, was what he said before he had taken the photograph of the "Napalm Girl": “I wanted to stop this war. I hated war. My brother told me “I hope one day you have a picture to stops the war””. On June 8, 1972 Nick Ut took just such a picture, a photograph that stopped the war. The photograph is said to be one of the most memorable photographs of the 20th Century. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Archive Video (WaybackMachine Archive), multiple cuts. "I'm Just A Singer In A Rock N Roll Band" (1972) video AI Enhanced, Upscaled to 4K by hodgeutoo