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<ul><li>Moody Blues singer Justin Haywood's version of this tearjerker was released as a single, peaking at #5 in the UK and #47 in the US in 1978.</li><li> "I had a call," Haywood recalled.</li><li> "Asking if I was the guy who sang '<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-moody-blues/nights-in-white-satin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Nights in White Satin</a>.' </li><li>I guess Jeff Wayne wanted that same plaintive feel. </li><li>He sent over a demo of Forever Autumn."</li><li>In the song, migrating birds and falling leaves represent the disappearance of the singer's lover, and now his "life will be forever autumn." </li><li>The lyrics perfectly suited a scene Wayne needed a song for.</li><li> "There was a moment in the score from a story point of few, when the wife of the journalist is missing," he told&nbsp;<em>Mojo</em>, "and it was as if Forever Autumn had been written for it."</li></ul><p><br></p>