EACH AND EVERY HEART
IT SEEMS
IS BOUNDED BY
A WORLD OF DREAMS
Long Distance Voyager
is the tenth
album by
first released in
May 1981
on the group's
Threshold record label.
It was the group's
first album
featuring
keyboardist
Patrick Moraz
who previously had worked
with bands such as
Refugee
and
Yes
in place of
co-founder
Mike Pinder,
who left after
Octave
in 1978.
Upon release in 1981,
Long Distance Voyager
became
the Moody Blues'
second American
number one album,
and was also
the source of the
US Top 20 singles
"Gemini Dream"
(No. 12)
and
"The Voice"
(No. 15)
on the
Billboard Hot 100.
A third single,
"Talking Out of Turn",
only reached No. 65
on the
Billboard Hot 100
but reached No. 27
in Canada.
It also continued
the Moody Blues'
winning streak
in their native
United Kingdom,
reaching
No. 7 there.
Besides the singles,
two songs
from the album
charted on
Billboard's
Mainstream Rock chart.
"Meanwhile"
charted at No. 11
and
"22,000 Days"
charted at No. 38.
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