The Present



The Present is the eleventh studio album by The Moody Blues, released in 1983. It is the second album of the Patrick Moraz era. It had three minor hit singles, "Blue World" (#62), "Sitting at the Wheel" (#27) and "Running Water". The album itself features strong compositions, but with a track order designed to capitalise on the legacy of the more successful Long Distance Voyager, with Justin Hayward's songs at the beginning and Ray Thomas' as finales.

The Present also became, in 1983, the first compact disc manufactured worldwide.[citation needed]  In November 2008, the album was remastered and released on CD with two extra tracks.

The cover is a pastiche of Maxfield Parrish's famous painting Daybreak, with some subtle details: The "X" that the standing child is giving to the other is said to symbolise the Roman numeral "X", this being the Moody Blues' tenth album (with Lodge and Hayward).



Contents
[hide]  *1 Original Track Listing  ==Original Track Listing[ edit] == ===Side One[ edit] === ===Side Two[ edit] === ===2008 remastered CD expanded edition<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The 2008 release contains two extra tracks:
 * 1.1 Side One
 * 1.2 Side Two
 * 1.3 2008 remastered CD expanded edition
 * 2 Personnel
 * 2.1 The Moody Blues
 * 2.2 Additional personnel
 * 3 Charts
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
 * 1) "Blue World" (Justin Hayward) – 5:20
 * 2) "Meet Me Halfway" (Hayward, John Lodge) – 4:08
 * 3) "Sitting at the Wheel" (Lodge) – 5:40
 * 4) "Going Nowhere" (Graeme Edge) – 5:33
 * 1) "Hole in the World" (Lodge) – 1:54
 * 2) "Under My Feet" (Lodge) – 4:51
 * 3) "It's Cold Outside of Your Heart" (Hayward) – 4:27
 * 4) "Running Water" (Hayward) – 3:23
 * 5) "I Am" (Ray Thomas) – 1:40
 * 6) "Sorry" (Thomas) – 5:02

==Personnel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===The Moody Blues<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Additional personnel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Charts<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Album – Billboard (North America) <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Singles - Billboard (North America)
 * 1) "Blue World" (Single Edit)" – 3:38
 * 2) "Sitting at the Wheel (Steve Greenberg Remix)" – 7:32
 * Justin Hayward – vocals, guitar
 * John Lodge – vocals, bass guitar
 * Ray Thomas – vocals, harmonica, flute
 * Graeme Edge – drums
 * Patrick Moraz – keyboards
 * Pip Williams – sequencing