David Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946, in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English musician, best known as a singer, guitarist and composer in the rock band The Moody Blues.
Hayward attended The Commonweal School, in Swindon, Wiltshire.[1]
In 1965, Hayward worked with Marty Wilde and his wife in The Wilde Three. Aged 17, he signed a publishing contract with the skiffle artist and record producer, Lonnie Donegan - a move that Hayward later regretted as it meant that the rights to all his songs written before 1974 would always be owned by Donegan's Tyler Music. He lives in France and Cornwall. His hobbies are horse riding and strolling along the Cornish Coast. "Nights in White Satin" is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, first featured on the album Days of Future Passed.
"Nights In White Satin" was not a popular song when first released, mainly due to its over seven-minute length. There are two edited versions of the song, both stripped of the orchestra and poetry from the LP version. The first version, with the songwriter's credit shown as "Redwave", was a hasty sounding 3:06 edit of the main song with very noticeable chopped parts. For the second.