Original released on LP Deram SML 711
(UK, July 1968)
"In Search
of the Lost Chord" is the album on which the Moody Blues discovered drugs and
mysticism as a basis for songwriting and came up with a compelling psychedelic
creation, filled with songs about Timothy Leary and the astral plane and other
psychedelic-era concerns. They dumped the orchestra this time out in favor of
Mike Pinder's Mellotron, which was a more than adequate substitute, and the
rest of the band joined in with flutes, sitar, tablas, and cellos, the playing
of which was mostly learned on the spot. The whole album was one big experiment
to see how far the group could go with any instruments they could find, thus
making this album a rather close cousin to the Beatles' records of the same
era. It is all beautiful and elegant, and "Legend of a Mind"'s chorus
about "Timothy Leary's dead/Oh, no - he's outside, looking in" ended
up anticipating reality; upon his death in 1996, Leary was cremated and
launched into space on a privately owned satellite, with the remains of Star
Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (another '60s pop culture icon) and other
well-heeled clients. (Bruce Eder in AllMusic)
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