From the back cover:  Heads almost rolled when the Moody Blues, together with arranger/producer Peter Knight, presented executives at Decca Records with their ambitious concept album, Days of Future Passed - the team had actually been commissioned to do a rock version of Dvorak's New World Symphony.  Decca gave it the thumbs-down, but the day was saved when an American executive present said it would sell in the States.  It did, and launched the Moodies' string of Platinum albums.  Nights In White Satin highlighted the LP and was a British hit on three separate occasions - but writer Justin Hayward doesn't own the publishing.   He sold it to Lonnie Donegan for a round of drinks just before the Moodies hit it big.