Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is the seventh album by The Moody Blues, released in 1971.

The album is largely a continuation in style from its predecessor, with no grand concept or theme.

Bassist John Lodge explains, "Our new album would become a continuation of what we had done on A Question of Balance.

"[4] Guitarist Justin Hayward further reflects on the album: "I think that Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a kind of a searching, seeking record.

These notes are heard on piano during "Procession" and the theme is carried out through the rest of the album.

It was intended to describe the history of music from the beginning of time until the album's recording.

Only a couple of weeks before entering the studio, I had done a version of it with Mike at his place, with just me playing the guitar and him working out the piano part for the outro.

"Nice to Be Here" is a whimsical Ray Thomas song where he imagines witnessing a concert performed by woodland creatures on makeshift instruments.

"[11] Sessions ran from November 1970 to March 1971, with a break in December for an American tour where they played Carnegie Hall.

The bulk of the album was recorded at Wessex, London instead of their usual Decca studio in West Hampstead.

We were also trying to come to terms with the fact that our music was no longer 'underground' but had taken on a life of its own and we were having to perform in large arenas in America.

There were pieces of rubber with silver paper on the back, with a coil that moved up and down inside a magnet which produced a signal.

That's why people started to tape cigarette packets to drums and all that—to eliminate that ring so it wouldn't mess with the guitars.

He explains, "I first put the acoustic guitar down using the Martin D-28, with myself and Graeme Edge on drums, and then worked on it from there.

"[19]" In recording Mike Pinder's "My Song", the artist desired that his vocals sound like he was outside the world, looking down on it, like an astronaut on a spacewalk.

To achieve the effect engineers Derek Varnals and David Baker constructed him a large carton to wear over his head.

We were trying to create something serious, but everyone was laughing hysterically—everyone except Mike, who was the only person who couldn’t see what we were seeing: a quite Monty Python–like image of someone standing perfectly still with a box covering his head.

It eventually ended up sounding a bit like Darth Vader, but this was several years before Star Wars was made.

[21] It has been imitated by the leader of the dark progressive band Current 93, David Tibet, for Halo, a live album released in 2004.