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Floating (The Moody Blues song)
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Wikipedia article
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| name = Floating
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| artist = The Moody Blues
| album = To Our Children's Children's Children
| released = 21 November 1969
| recorded = MaySeptember 1969
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| length = 3:01
| label = Threshold
| writer = Ray Thomas
| producer = Tony Clarke
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"'Floating'" is a song by the Moody Blues from their November 1969 album 'To Our Children's Children's Children', a concept album about space travel, dedicated to NASA and the Apollo 11 astronauts.The Moody Blues Companion, Edward Wincentsen and Rhonda Conley (2001)
Background
Written by band flautist Ray Thomas, "Floating" is a jaunty, semi-children's song about a future in which advances in space travel have enabled the Moon to become a family vacation spot. The song's lyrics describe the experience of "Floating" from weightlessness due to the microgravity experienced in space flight.
Thomas's previous outspoken sympathy for LSD advocate Timothy Leary, as expressed in his song "Legend of a Mind", along with coincidental drug-related slang terms current at the time involving words such as "candy" and "rock," led some Americans to see in "Floating" a coded encouragement to use drugs.See for instance Bob Larson, "Rock and Roll: The Devil's Diversion" (3rd ed., 1970); David Noebel, "The Marxist Minstrels" (1970)
Personnel
* Ray Thomas lead vocals
* Justin Hayward acoustic guitar, backing vocals
* John Lodge bass guitar, backing vocals
* Mike Pinder Mellotron, Celesta, backing vocals
* Graeme Edge drums, percussion
References
Category:The Moody Blues songs
Category:Songs about spaceflight
Category:1969 songs
Category:Songs written by Ray Thomas
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