The Moody Blues
In Search of the Lost Chord
In Search of the Lost Chord: the 1968 Rolling Stone pan that got the Moody Blues wrong
Released in the UK on 26 July 1968, In Search of the Lost Chord marked The Moody Blues' turn to psychedelic-progressive rock. A contemporary hostile review by Jim Miller in Rolling Stone, alongside chart results with their dates.
The verdict at the time
Jim Miller reviewed In Search of the Lost Chord for Rolling Stone on 7 December 1968 with open hostility: he called the album's mysticism 'startlingly saccharine', dismissed its execution as 'contextual goo', and advised The Moody Blues to record a 'straight-ahead, no bullshit album of rock'. A contemporary verdict that time has reversed.
Chart peaks
European positions are listed by country. Later chart entries are labelled separately.
Sources & context
One critic's opinion, summarised from Jim Miller's original Rolling Stone review of 7 December 1968. The album is now regarded as a landmark of late-1960s psychedelic-progressive rock, and uDiscover Music describes it as the commercial breakthrough of the group's album-oriented sound.
