Go Now (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Go Now


Artist = The Moody Blues
from Album = The Magnificent Moodies
B-side = "It's Easy Child" (UK)
"Lose Your Money" (US)
Released = November 1964
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label =Flag|UK Decca Records
Writer = Larry Banks
Milton Bennett
Producer =Denny Cordell, Alex Wharton
Last single ="Steal Your Heart Away"
(1964)
This single ="Go Now"
(1964)
Next single ="I Don't Want to Go On Without You"

"Go Now" is a song composed by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett. Bessie Banks originally performed this song, but it was made popular internationally in 1964 when a group from Birmingham named The Moody Blues recorded it, with Denny Laine on guitar and lead vocals. The song reached #1 in the UK and #10 in the US. Laine continued to perform the song in concert during his years in Wings, and it is included in the group's "Wings over America" live album. The Moody Blues had little success with later singles after "Go Now", which led to Denny Laine's departure from the band, later being replaced by Justin Hayward. Hayward only sang the song during his first year with the band, up until they began to write their own material. Bassist Clint Warwick had also departed the band, and he was replaced by John Lodge. The next successes for the Moody Blues would be 1967's "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon."

At the time the single was released it was being promoted on TV with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era (produced and directed by their co-manager Alex Wharton), very much before The Beatles did with the promotional films of their singles "Rain" and "Paperback Writer", both released on 1966.

In January of 1997, "Go Now" was released on "The Best of the Moody Blues"; its release on this album was the first time it had been released on a Moody Blues compilation album. "Go Now" was also released on the subsequent Moody Blues' two-disc compilation album "Anthology".

"Go Now" was later recorded by Ozzy Osbourne in 2005 for his "Under Cover" compilation album.

The version by The Moody Blues was famously used on the satirical British television show "Spitting Image" in a scene concerning then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The song is also in the musical "Return to the Forbidden Planet".

Credits (The Moody Blues version)

* Denny Laine: guitar, vocals
* Clint Warwick: bass guitar, backing vocals
* Mike Pinder: piano, backing vocals
* Ray Thomas: tambourine, backing vocals
* Graeme Edge: drums, percussion

External Links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLgdcGEqgcw The promotional film of "Go Now"]