Editing The Moody Blues (section)

===''Seventh Sojourn''===
In 1972, the band returned to the more lush sound of their late 1960s albums with ''[[Seventh Sojourn]]'', which became their first album to reach No. 1 in the US,<ref name=":3" /> and reached No. 5 in the UK.<ref name=":2" /> The album saw Pinder using the new [[Chamberlin]] instrument. His stirring lament "Lost in a Lost World" opened the album, while he also contributed a sympathetic ode to Timothy Leary, "When You're a Free Man". The album also included one of Thomas's most popular songs, "For My Lady".

Lodge's songs "[[Isn't Life Strange]]"  and "[[I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)]]" (the latter written in response to some of the band's [[hippie]] fans, who mistook the Moodies as spiritual leaders due to the philosophical themes of many of their lyrics)<ref name="A History of The Moody Blues"/> were lifted as singles from ''Seventh Sojourn,'' both reaching the Top 40 in the UK and US.