When You're A Free Man-The Moody Blues

[kloudzjia]

justin hayward once said "mike made my songs work". moody lads are all neat people.

love them so much. a fan snce 1967.

[hoegis]

pinder was / is a genius

[yt3456100]

"High...on a mountain side"

This was taken literally by alot of us while listening to this album on a hike --back in the day

[lala5732]

Hauntingly Beautiful!!! One of my favorites too!

[lckbastard]

Wow!

[Muffett53]

I love this song. MB has always created greats. Every time I hear this....it brings up memories and always helps me create more. Life is a memory...and dream ...and many things. It takes us wherever it wants to...peace in the end tho.

[sledj567]

I remember when I was in college this was the first, and last song I requested

to play on my college radio station. Such a haunting and moving song.

[rayocon100]

Great memories from this mellow song. I like to think it's about people leaving their home land (UK) for Australia, South Africa, Canada etc, as so many did back then...

[crumbtrey]

''Perfect peace". Sigh...

[vogtmurr]

one of my favourite Moodies tunes - surprised there aren't more views or posts of this. It evokes so many memories of past friendships - some drift apart unfortunately - but we always hope someday to relive them for a moment. I had the pleasure of seeing them in concert last night and I was totally thrilled. They didn't play this one unfortunately but their power and vocal range were intact.

[katrastrophy]

kinda like King Crimson on some vague parallel.

[Zippertheslipper]

Whenever I hear this song, the chant Ohm comes to mind, ohm...............meditate

[moodyfan4ever]

I can remember that I bought this album on vinyl ( LP ), and listend over and over and over, alone upstairs in my bedroom, now , after all those years, ( on CD ), still one of the favourites, on long trips in the truck, passing endless roads, yes, still , wow.

[bodaseco]

I miss my brother! This is for all those who have passed on.....

[corro51]

@bodaseco I lost my brother 10 years ago, and this song always reminds me of him as a young man in the 70's....

[winnentoe]

F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C S-O-N-G-!

[wazzarouski]

Favourite song of all time. Thk you...

[Muffett53]

I love this song! I would love to go to a concert and they play this song!!!!

[lala5732]

@Muffett53 Doubt they will do that without Mike..his song and on John, Justin and Greame remain.

[hilvldruid]

So Incredible. All Egyptian.

[buckdowner]

Your soul has been defrosted and welcomed back to your youth. Now, take that knowledge and 'hope' to propel yourself and those you love into a prayerful life for all ages; those past and those to come...

[TheJavierm7]

"Cuando seas un hombre libre" extraido de Seventh Sojourn, album realizado en 1972, matizado en la linea de la sicodelia. Con la banda inglesa "The Moody Blues". Este album fue #5 en UK y #1 en USA: En este produccion se utiliza un instrumento llamado Mellotron, todo un descubrimiento para la epoca. Ademas era el septimo album de la banda.

[hilvldruid]

Absolutely the best.

[gritzinplitz]

Yo Ho! I was on night-shift in Glasgow, Scotland, going home at 06.00, listening to this new album on 8 track in my Mini Cooper S. Across the Kingston Bridge at 100 mph. with this just blaring. Ah, the good old days! No speed cameras in 1972!

[FredFlintstone177]

The first recording I had of 'Seventh Sojourn' (I already had copies of all their previous US-released albums) was on an 8-track and I also remember the girl I was dating. Her name was Susan and the car was a powder blue 1961 Ford Galaxy Starliner.

One of the only rock concerts I ever got to see was Moody Blues at Melody Fair Theatre in Niagara Falls, NY.

[oriskany]

The first time I heard this I had the most overwhelming sense of deja vu. Not necessarily the song itself, but of a previous life. It still has that effect on me and yet I can't quite put my finger on it.

[kiriyama999]

This is a truly touching song.

[jonnyb69able]

@kiriyama999 yeah, i couldn,t say it better than that.

[zooluke]

lyrics praising leary, not good. music part is great though. i wish the song would have had a different meaning. moody blues still rule! :-)

[mjsmcd]

plese help...the end of this song with the flutes/horns/pipes? whatever it is

is that a traditional melody added at the end or an original ? it sounds familiar.

if taken from a traditional piece does anyone know the name?

thanks

[jonnyb69able]

@mjsmcd it sounds like something that jethro tull would have used in their folk rock period;

[fara175]

can someone let me know how i could view the songs ' all that is real is you', love the songs so much..

[fara175]

can someone let me know how i could view the songs ' all that is real is you', love the songs so much..

[ingramjri]

I used to sit for hours listening to this album in '73. Man, life seemed so straight forward then! Everything was ahead of me. Now I'm on wife #2 with grandkids! Where did life go when I wasn't looking?

[Dhunatmik]

I bought the moodies 1st 7 albums as they were released. Their music always made me more aware of life's mysteries and beauty. This music expresses eternity and I will never tire of it...

[usm7j]

This song was on the charts when I got out of the Army. Gee, wonder why it is still one of my favorites?

[NJFastEddie]

This song is one of the reasons the older Moody Blues albums were so awesome. Not that it's the best song on the record, but it helps to complete Seventh Sojourn and instead of using a Chuck Berry "filler" like the Stones always did, Mike Pinder shoved such a unique song into our faces. Hearing this track brings back such vivid memories for me as a kid...and to me, that helps define whether a song or album is great....and this song and album are great!!!!

[lala5732]

Oh how I LOVE this song!! It still gives me goosebumps after all these years!! Thanks for posting this fabulous memory!!

[buckdowner]

"Played on a street corner, the music came from above; crack pipes shattered, and the rappers stopped their diatribes. Souls spun and centrifuged hate, filth, murder and death against sudden walls of hope. With that, soft rain rinsed away an entire generation and, once again, the flowers returned...

[pesce9991]

I remember who I was dating and how I listened to this LP album over and over....yes, I'm that old!...but I hear this and it brings back such memories....the power of music!

[selloutasaurus]

I love this song!!!!

[motherbrain86]

one of the doomy songs mike wrote along with meloncoly man

[bradominus]

I love that little coda at the end...

[HOUSEOFFOURDOORS]

Re: Leary When You're a Free Man was written about Leary. Rose Marie or Rose Mary was Leary wife.

Legend of a Mind directly mentions Leary a number of times. great stuff Pat

[gformyle]

One of their truly great songs, and I miss Mike Pinder.

[Pmls1972]

This song should be in their best of...

[HOUSEOFFOURDOORS]

Seems to be a strong connection between Timothy Leary and the Moody Blues. This is their second song about him.

[TheSubstituteGnome]

Yes, only this time it doesn't directly mention him.

[bradominus]

Is this documented? What is the first song re: Leary? Thanks!

[gigaman1989]

"Legend of a Mind" on 1968's "in Search of the Lost Chord"

[CocteauDalighari]

@TheSubstituteGnome "How are the children/And Rosemary"

Rosemary was Leary's wife.

[CocteauDalighari]

@HOUSEOFFOURDOORS They'd probably admit they were extraordinarily naive. Leary was in Algeria @the time; he was actually on the run for years, B4 he turned himself in. By then, the Moodies weren't writing about him anymore. It is a nice period piece, tho.

[TheTimananda]

@HOUSEOFFOURDOORS

who says it's dedicated to Tim Leary? there were plenty of political prisoners to whom they could have been referring.

[AntiAuthority55]

amaaazing song, i agree with u guys

[RobEye79]

great tune. One of my faves from the moodys. thanx for the post.

[Pmls1972]

I like this music! Thanks fpr posting! I was looking for it, after I've heard in another post, but it desapeared...