The Moody Hues

Justin Hayward on what the band really thought of Days Of Future Passed’s artwork…

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“Days Of Future Passed is when we realised, ‘Hey, record artwork is really important.’ It was done by David Anstey from Decca, and we had a meeting in the pub to tell him what our songs were about, but had no say in what was going on the cover. Looking at it, there’s some smudges and stuff and a funny interpretation that was a rather odd thing that the Decca art department did, where it was kind of meant to be psychedelic. We were inspired by Holst’s The Planets suite and The Zodiac by Cosmic Sounds, but for me, with Days… there was just too much stuff going on. “We knew an artist called Phil Travers from Decca’s art department, who hadn’t worked on Days Of Future Passed. But we…

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