JUSTIN HAYWARD & JEFF WAYNE – FOREVER AUTUMN Promo 7″ – Nr MINT UK 1978 MOODY BLUES

Justin Hayward & Jeff Wayne – Forever Autumn
(CBS Records  1978   6368)
Promo – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

CBS Company Sleeve in Excellent+ condition

David Justin Hayward OBE (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician. He was the guitarist and frontman of the rock band the Moody Blues from 1966 until that group’s dissolution in 2018. He became the group’s principal vocalist and its most prolific songwriter over the 1967–1974 period, and composed several international hit singles for the band.

Jeffry Wayne (born 1 July 1943) is an American composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978, he released Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells’ science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, including a Gordon’s Gin commercial which was covered by the Human League. Wayne also composed numerous television themes, including Good Morning Britain (TV-am), ITV’s The Big Match and World of Sport, and the BBC’s Sixty Minutes.

“Forever Autumn” is a song written by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass, and sung by Justin Hayward. The original melody was written by Wayne in 1969 as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Vigrass and Osborne. The best-known version is the recording by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues from the album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

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