Moody blues tuesday afternoon

1968 single by The Moody Blues

"Tuesday Afternoon" (sometimes referred to as "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)", or simply "Forever Afternoon") is a 1968 song written by Justin Hayward that was first released by English rock band the Moody Blues on their 1967 album Days of Future Passed and later released as a single.

Background

The song was originally released on The Moody Blues' 1967 album Days of Future Passed, a concept album chronicling a typical day. On the album, it was part one of "The Afternoon" track titled "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)".

Justin Hayward said that he wrote the song on a Tuesday afternoon in Lydiard Park, in his hometown of Swindon. Hayward's mother had taken him and his brother to the park while they were growing up, and he revisited the park during the production of Days of Future Passed to write the song.^[2] He said that he wrote the song "with guitar and joint in hand".^[3]

When the concept of the a