“Nights in White Satin” is a dance-pop cover version performed by German singer Sandra. The song appeared on Sandra’s sixth studio album Fading Shades (1995). It was produced by Michael Cretu and received mixed reception from music critics. The song was released as the lead single in the spring of 1995, although it failed to [...]
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The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin (Index)


“Nights in White Satin” is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward and first featured on the album Days of Future Passed. It is in the key of E minor, and features the Neapolitan chord. When first released in 1967, the song reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart, a position [...]

Profile: Mike Oldfield


Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock with such genres as folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature. He is best known for his [...]

Blackmore’s Night: Child In Time (Live)


The song Child In Time is a folk rock version of the famous Deep Purple‘s Child in Time. Blackmore’s Night is a British/American traditional folk rock duo formed in 1997, consisting of Ritchie Blackmore (acoustic and electric guitar) and Candice Night (lead vocals, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist).

Profile: Blackmore’s Night


Blackmore’s Night is a British/American traditional folk rock duo formed in 1997, consisting of Ritchie Blackmore (acoustic and electric guitar) and Candice Night (lead vocals, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist). Candice Night was a Rainbow fan, and first encountered Ritchie Blackmore to ask him for an autograph in 1989, while she was working for a local New [...]

Profile: The Moody Blues


The Moody Blues are an English rock band. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed. The Moody Blues have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and have been awarded 14 platinum and gold discs. As of 2013 they remain active with one [...]

Deep Purple: Beethoven (Live)


Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members claimed that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre.

King Crimson: Epitaph (Lyrics)


“Epitaph” is the third track from the British progressive rock band King Crimson‘s debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King. The song makes heavy use of the mellotron, and as with the first track, “21st Century Schizoid Man”, the song’s lyrics have a distinctly dystopian feel to them. The song’s title was used [...]