100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #11: The Moody Blues, Question

Although the core of this track is a fairly syrupy love song, it is bracketed by the most powerful and urgent demand rock music has ever produced: “Why do we never get an answer/When we’re knocking at the door/With a thousand, million questions/About hate and death and war?”  This question, first aired in 1970, is more relevant than ever today, as the Western industrial/military machine continues to grind all under its heel.  And one can only wonder how powerful the impact of this track must have been on audiences who had at that time heard nothing like it.

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