The Moody Blues Are Older Than You
Sylvie Simmons, Creem, December 1986
"SOMETIMES WE'RE a little misunderstood and people think that maybe we have a lot of answers which we don't have. Really," Justin Hayward leans forward in the office chair; he's neat and tidy, airbrushed almost, "we're just singers in a rock 'n' roll band, and people credit us with a lot of answers to, you know, the Secret Of The Universe. And what can you say to that?"
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